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Pres. Obama amplifies our message in Michigan: “Right to Work is the right to work for less” (PHOTOS)

By on December 10, 2012 in Barack Obama, Labor, President Obama

Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you.

In his visit to the Daimler Detroit Diesel plant in Redford, Michigan today, Presdient Obama amplified and gave full-throated endorsement of the battle being fought to stop Michigan from becoming the nation’s 24th “Right to Work for Less” state:

“[B]y the way, what we shouldn’t do — I just got to say this — what we shouldn’t be doing is trying to take away your rights to bargain for better wages and working conditions. We shouldn’t be doing that. These so-called “right to work” laws, they don’t have anything to do with economics; they have everything to do with politics. What they’re really talking about is giving you the right to work for less money.”

PHOTOS and much more after the jump.


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UPDATED: Tea Partiers in Michigan prove their gullibility yet again

By on October 9, 2012 in Lies, Tea Party

Seriously, are you THAT stupid???!

The “Rebuild America — Defeat Obama” bus tour rolled into Brighton, Michigan yesterday and it was an incredible display of some of the most blatant cognitive dissonance to date.

Highlights after the jump.


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UPDATED: Republican voter suppression efforts in Michigan worked as planned, voters frisked in Detroit

By on August 8, 2012 in Michigan Republicans

When you can’t win on the issues, you have to cheat

Earlier this year, Republican Secretary of State Ruth Johnson decided to add a citizenship checkbox to the voter registration slip you have to fill out to vote. This entirely unnecessary step was seen by many as just one more attempt to freak out voters and dissuade them from voting. Governor Rick Snyder vetoed the legislation that required it but the checkbox was still on the slips, creating mass confusion.

Just what the Republicans wanted.

That and more including the frisking of voters in Detroit by a man wearing fatigues after the jump.


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Michigan primary election results round-up

By on August 8, 2012 in Uncategorized

Off to the races

This is by no means a comprehensive round-up of results from yesterday’s primary in Michigan but just a look at some of the races that I’ve been writing about here at Eclectablog and others that I’m interested in, in general.

It’s all after the jump.


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Tea Party Troy Mayor Janice Daniels’ recall is certified

By on July 17, 2012 in LOLGOP

Facing the music

Despite two absurd attempts to have petition signatures thrown out, Tea party Troy Mayor Janice Daniels will officially face a recall in November.

Daniels, shown right with deejay Thayrone “your audio g-spot will now be massaged by the mink glove of soul” X, challenged the petitions based on corrections not being initialed by the circulator (not required) and because signers didn’t include their zip code (also not required.)

More after the jump.


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EPIC FAIL: Troy Tea Party Mayor Janice Daniels tries (& fails) to challenge recall petitions on font size

By on June 25, 2012 in Bwahahahahaha, LOLGOP

You’re kidding me, right?

Troy Tea Party mayor Janice Daniels (R-Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs) is facing a recall challenge. What has flown under the radar is that, on June 18th, she challenged the petition signatures gathered for her recall based on — wait for it — FONT SIZE!

Her challenge was both comical and, thankfully, an epic failure.

Details after the jump.


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There’s a Vagina Storm brewing over Lansing, Michigan

By on June 18, 2012 in Events

Vagina power!

There’s a storm brewing over the state Capitol in Lansing, Michigan this afternoon. I am pretty sure it’s a Vagina Storm.

Photo after the jump.


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Recall effort against Troy, MI tea party mayor Janice Daniels has 1/3 of the signatures needed

By on April 12, 2012 in Tea Party

Don’t get too comfy, Mayor Daniels

The team of people working to recall Troy, Michigan’s woo hoo Tea Party mayor Janice Daniels is well on their way to having enough petition signatures to recall the mayor whose efforts are driving businesses out of Troy.

From this week’s press release;

The Recall Janice Daniels initiative has reached a major milestone in the effort to remove Troy Mayor Janice Daniels from office. In the first 3 weeks of the effort, more than 33% of the 7,985 signatures have been collected and verified.

The Recall Janice Daniels team has until June 15th to collect the required signatures.

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Dexter Tornado update

By on March 19, 2012 in Michigan

We actually got lucky

The clean-up after the monster, record-breaking F3 tornado that hit the village of Dexter where I live continued apace over the weekend. Most of the damaged homes in the Huron Farms subdivision have been shored up, their roofs covered with blue tarps and windows & doors boarded up.

By way of an update:

  • Over a hundred volunteers pitched in over the weekend to remove downed trees and debris, according to the Dexter Patch.
  • Schools are back open again this morning.
  • Dexter Township has allocated $200,000 to help with the clean-up.
  • Nobody (nobody!) was seriously hurt in this storm.

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Tea party supporters of Mayor Janice Daniels of Troy go completely off their nut, file 10 Daniels recall petitions

By on March 13, 2012 in Michigan

Hoo-boy.

Tea partiers in Troy, Michigan have pretty much completely lost it, apparently. I retaliation for the recall initiated against Mayor Janice Daniels, they have now filed no less than ten additional recall petitions to muddy up the works.

In response to a recent recall effort against Troy Mayor Janice Daniels, a Troy resident has issued 10 recall petitions in an effort to support Daniels, as well as three serious petitions to recall City Council members who voted in favor of the controversial Troy Transit Center. [...]

Among the reasons to recall Daniels, as listed on the petitions filed by [Nicholas ] Cherasaro, are “For wearing tan shoes with a black suit to a council meeting on February 20, 2012,” “For smiling at the public during a city council meeting on February 6, 2010,” and “For having perfect attendance as City of Troy Mayor since elected in November of 2011.”

Other petitions seek to recall Daniels “For wearing a red hat with a red coat at the same time in front of the channel 7 TV cameras,” “For voting for the Troy Public Library to be open on Saturdays to better serve the people of Troy,” and “For going door to door and talking with city residents on their front porches.

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