According to a report on MLive, Michigan Republicans are demanding that the investigation into Michigan Democratic Party Chairman Mark Brewer’s involvement in a 2010 plot to split the conservative vote in Metro Detroit by running fake Tea Party candidates against establishment Republicans, be reopened. Here’s a clip: …Bobby Schostak, chairman of the Michigan Republican Party, […]
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Michigan Democratic Party Chairman Mark Brewer, without the support of the UAW, faces attacks from within… What’s next?
Posted in Michigan, Politics Also tagged Bob King, Bobby Schostak, Bruce Rendon, Eclectablog, Jack Lessenberry, James Hoffa, Jeff Irwin, Jennifer Granholm, Jessica Cooper, Kalkaska, lame duck, Lon Johnson, Mackinac Center for Public Policy, Mark Brewer, Michigan Democratic Party, Michigan Republican Party, Mike McGuinness, right-to-work, Sander Levin, tea party, UAW, union busting, unions, United Auto Workers 32 Comments
The Twinkie defense… Is management or labor is less deserving of the blame in the Hostess liquidation?
A few days ago, upon hearing that Hostess Brands Inc. was going out of business, I posted the following, assuming that it would just be a matter of time before folks on the right started floating conspiracy theories involving Michelle Obama and her “nanny state” jihad against junk food. As my friend Steve Cherry quickly […]
Posted in Corporate Crime, Economics, Uncategorized Also tagged asshole CEOs, Bakery, Confectionery, conspiracy theories, game theory, greed, Hostess, Hostess Ho-Hos, junk food, King of Kona, labor, Michelle Obama, nanny state, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union, twinkie defense, Twinkies, unions, Wonder Bread 10 Comments
Chris Hedges on why Occupy Wall Street could “bring them all down”
It takes a concerted effort on my part not to post videos here every night of Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges. As I just posted video of him a few days ago, I hate to do it again, but, once you see this video of the former New York Times war correspondent being interviewed […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Corporate Crime, History, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Anthony Bologna, Berlin Wall, Charlie Rangel, Chris Hedges, corporate media, corporate takeover of politics, corporatocracy, coup d’état, Democratic Party, East Germany, Eastern Europe, intifada, leaderless movements, Leipzig, MoveOn, New York, non-hierarchical structure, Occupy Wall Street, Prague, revolution, Slobodan Milošević, the fall of the Berlin wall, unions, Wall Street, we need a revolution 69 Comments