As predicted, it looks as though yesterday’s Republican Convention in East Lansing did not go smoothly, as Rick Snyder, the Republican candidate for Governor, was confronted head-on by the fact that his party is largely one of misdirected anger and insanity. Here, with more, is a clip from the Detroit Free Press: In a raucous, […]
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Rick Snyder confronts teabaggery en masse
How’s Rick Snyder going to navigate the frothing sea of mental illness that is the Tea Party?
I didn’t mention it when it happened, but, a little over a week ago, the Tea Partiers here in Michigan waged a bit of a coup against the Republican party. Following is a clip from Blogging for Michigan: The inmates are taking over the asylum. In a big and incredibly underreported story that some of […]
The Kwameboating of Mike Cox
I was intrigued by a Detroit News article that I read tonight about an attack ad running on the radio in Lansing against Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike Cox. I wanted to hear the ad, but I couldn’t find it anywhere online… Here, though, before I get to that, is a clip from the Detroit News: […]
The possibility of a public boarding school in Detroit
I’m sitting here tonight, thinking about all of the stuff I should be writing about, like the EMU student with tuberculosis and Rick Snyder’s “One Tough Nerd” gubernatorial ad, but all I really feel like discussing is this article in the Free Press today about the state of Detroit’s public schools. Maybe it has something […]
John Cherry drops out of Michgan’s race for governor
Stating that he hadn’t been able to raise the money necessary to wage a winning campaign for Governor, John Cherry, Michigan’s current Lieutenant Governor, announced today that he would no longer be seeking the Democratic nomination. According to the Detroit Free Press, recent polls have shown Cherry, “finishing behind any of the top three Republican […]