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Michigan Rising’s effort to recall Michigan Governor Rick Snyder ends

By on June 7, 2012 in Recall Rick Snyder, Rick Snyder

The good fight was fought

After the devastating result on Tuesday to recall Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, Michigan Rising, the group who organized two efforts to recall Michigan Governor Rick Snyder, has decided to end its signature gathering. It’s a smart decision given the apparent lack of enthusiasm, interest and level of involvement by Michiganders from the highest levels of the Michigan Democratic Party and unions to the ground level grassroots volunteers. A sparse turnout at their kickoff rally was only one of many symptoms of what appears to be a malaise that has infected progressive activists in Michigan. This only became more apparent as they reached June 1st with only a few thousand signatures, well below what would be needed to be successful.…


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Michigan Rising’s effort to recall Rick Snyder hits the ground running

By on May 30, 2012 in Recall Rick Snyder, Rick Snyder

Get your democracy on

Michigan Rising, the group working to recall Michigan Governor Rick Snyder, has hit the ground running. According to spokesperson Bruce Fealk, the group already has tens of thousands of petitions in the field in the first few weeks of their signature-gathering drive.

As of this week they have distributed more than 50,000 petitions in 57 of Michigan’s 83 counties.

There are currently eight permanent signing locations in the state in Traverse City, Frankfort, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Mt. Pleasant, Allegan County, Ypsilanti, St. Clair and Macomb County. You can find the exact locations of the fixed petitions HERE.…


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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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Troy Mayor Janice Daniels gets smacked down on multiple fronts, recall language approved

By on March 2, 2012 in Uncategorized

Let me go crazy, crazy on you…

Homophobic tea partier and Troy, MI mayor Janice Daniels has demonstrated her woo-hoo inanity in such a public fashion recently that she’s beginning to get into a hole too deep to dig out of.

The hilarity began when, on January 7th, in violation of city council rules limiting discussion by council members on single issue to five minutes, she read a rambling and nearly comical screed ranting against the transit center the council had recently approved.

Here’s a sampling. Hang on to your hats.

As the duly elected Mayor of the City of Troy, Michigan, I feel compelled to have my opposition to the construction of what is called the Troy Multi-Modal Transit Center project read into the Public Record so that the citizens of Troy, Michigan will have this information available to them for all time.…

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Recall effort for Senator Phil Pavlov underway

By on January 12, 2012 in Uncategorized

The effort to recall Senate Education Chair Phil Pavlov got underway on January 7th. The group working toward his recall now has a webpage, RecallPavlov.org, and is actively seeking petitioners, petition signatures and financial support.

Senator Pavlov voted to support the odious “anti”-bullying bill that was not anti-bullying. He has supported legislation that reduces tax credits used by many Michiganders as well as the bill that became Public Act 4 – the Emergency Manager law. But, most egregiously, as Senate Education Chair, he has shown himself to be anti-teacher. He has even proposed privatizing the teachers of Michigan, saying “I look at it as offering options.…


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Recall of Wisc Gov Scott Walker gathers 300,000+ signatures in 12 days

By on November 29, 2011 in Michigan Democratic Party

It’s amazing what can happen when a state-level Democratic Party joins up with grassroots activists to recall overstepping Republicans. United Wisconsin and the Democratic Party of Wisconsin announced yesterday that they have gathered over 300,000 signatures to recall Scott Walker in just 12 days. They need a total of 540,206 valid signatures by January and their goal is 750,000.

Meanwhile, back in Michigan, what is the Michigan Democratic Party doing? Promoting a new website and 30-minute ad to go after Mitt Romney.

Does anybody but me find it astonishing that this is how the MDP is spending its time at the moment?…


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Paul Scott is officially FIRED by the citizens of Michigan

By on November 19, 2011 in Uncategorized

And so it is done.

An election board Friday certified results from a recall election that removes a Republican state lawmaker from office.

Rep. Paul Scott of Grand Blanc was removed from the Legislature by 233 votes out of more than 24,000 ballots cast in a Nov. 8 election. The Board of State Canvassers certified the results in a meeting at the state Capitol.

Republicans say they won’t challenge the outcome and instead will focus on the special election to replace Scott, scheduled for Feb. 28.

Good riddance, Mr. Scott.

By the way, Scott was removed by a slender 233 vote margin.…


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The little GOP recall that could – recalling anti-teacher, anti-union Rep. Paul Scott

By on November 9, 2011 in Uncategorized

In what can only be called a nail-biter last night (see my liveblog HERE to see what I mean), the effort to recall anti-teacher, anti-union Republican Rep. Paul Scott from Grand Blanc was successful last night. After all of the votes were counted, Scott was recalled by a margin of only 197 votes – 50.4% to 49.6%. This is, however, quite a different result than the final poll before the election that had Scott winning by 8 percentage points.

Over the course of this campaign, the recall organizers displayed a nearly-Herculean level of determination. Recall language approval happened very late in the game.…


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LIVEBLOG: Recall of Michigan Rep. Paul Scott – UPDATED: Recall succeeds!!!

By on November 8, 2011 in Uncategorized

At 10:12 p.m., with 65.7% of precincts counted, the recall of anti-teacher, anti-union Michigan State Representative Paul Scott stands thusly:

49.49% FOR recall
50.51% against recall

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10:18 p.m., with 74.29% of precincts counted, the recall of anti-teacher, anti-union Michigan State Representative Paul Scott stands thusly:

49.39% FOR recall
50.61% against recall

Difference is 237 votes. Think your vote doesn’t count?

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10:39 p.m. Okay, Genesee County just took the Scott recall numbers off their website…

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10:43 p.m. Okay, Scott recall numbers back up. With 82.86% of precincts counted:

49.21% FOR recall
50.79% against recall

Difference is 302 votes.…


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Following the money: who wants Paul Scott’s recall to fail – Michelle Rhee, the DeVos family, and beyond

By on November 7, 2011 in Uncategorized

You can tell a great deal about a given situation, as they say, by following the money. As anti-union, anti-teacher Republican state Rep. Paul Scott faces the voters of his district in a recall election tomorrow, it’s useful to see who has been pouring money into his coffers for the past couple of months. All of this information is available from the Secretary of State’s website.

Contributor Date of donation Amount of donation
AUTO DEALERS OF MICHIGAN PAC 11/4/11 $1,000.00
MI MCDONALD’S OPERATORS ASSOC PAC 11/4/11 $250.00
MOVING MICHIGAN FORWARD FUND 11/4/11 $500.00
ONE TOUGH NERD PAC 11/4/11 $2,124.00
SMALL BIZ PAC 11/2/11 $2,500.00
DTE ENERGY PAC 10/27/11 $1,000.00
DTE ENERGY PAC 10/18/11 $1,000.00
MI DOCTOR’S PAC 10/27/11 $1,000.00
LEADERSHIP UNDER NEW DIRECTION FUND 10/27/11 $561.60
LEADERSHIP UNDER NEW DIRECTION FUND 10/27/11 $1,180.84
TEACHING ENCOURAGING & MOTIVATING 10/6/11 $3,700.00
REALTORS PAC OF MI 9/20/11 $10,000.00
BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD 9/27/11 $2,500.00
LEADERSHIP UNDER NEW DIRECTION 10/20/11 $1,700.00
MI BEER AND WINE PAC 10/19/11 $299.20
DENTAL PAC OF MICHIGAN 10/21/11 $250.00
AT&T MICHIGAN PAC 9/6/11 $1,000.00
AUTO DEALERS OF MI PAC (ADM PAC) 9/27/11 $250.00
BCBSM PAC 9/22/11 $2,500.00
GENETSKI FOR CONSERVATIVE MAJORITY 10/19/11 $100.00
MICHIGAN CHAMBER PAC III 10/20/11 $7,594.00
MICHIGAN CHAMBER PAC III 10/20/11 $6,808.01
MICHIGAN CHAMBER PAC III 10/20/11 $4,945.00
MICHIGAN CHAMBER PAC III 10/20/11 $3,120.99
MICHIGAN CHAMBER PAC III 10/20/11 $2,532.00

Those last few from the Michigan Chamber PAC are for radio and television ads.…


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