The following blog is a guest post from Allena Tapia, who is in Washington, D.C. with the Michigan United coalition Progressive allies Michigan United, ACTION of Lansing, Gamaliel, UAW representatives and other Michigan community members today joined thousands from across the nation in Washington, D.C. to demand lawmakers move on immigration reform that includes a…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE News from the Michigan Laborers Wednesday, April 3, 2013 Contact: Jonathan Byrd, jbyrd@mi-laborers.org, 517-993-8659 “It’s heartening that Judge Collette decided to throw out Attorney General Bill Schuette’s absurd arguments to block this lawsuit from moving forward,” said Geno Alessandrini with the Michigan Laborers District Council. “Last December our members were locked outside of the…
As the Dave Agema scandal reaches its eighth day, Republican leaders are still silent on whether his opinions on LGBT people are factual or appropriate for a party leader. But Republican politicians and ex-politicians can’t jump on Agema’s bandwagon fast enough, and even launched an online petition demonstrating their support. Rep. Mike Shirkey signed the…
Yesterday after posting audio and an amended transcript of a radio interview in which Dave Agema made some even more offensive comments about LGBT people, we learned that one of the radio hosts was Doug Sedenquist, vice-chair of the Delta County Republican Party and 38th Senate District delegate to the Michigan Republican State Committee. In…
After trying to have it both ways in a weekend interview with WWMT, saying he didn’t write the original post but standing by it, then saying on Facebook he stood by the hateful screed, Dave Agema doubled down in a radio interview he probably thought no one would hear. The interview was with WPIQ in…
After being called out for copying and pasting a hateful screed on the damaging effects of homosexuality, Michigan Republican National Committeeman Dave Agema responded in a way that was both cowardly and audacious. While saying he was being taken out of context and those weren’t his words, he nonetheless continued to proclaim “I will not…
This morning, 21 Michigan Republican activists called on Republican National Committeeman Dave Agema to resign, apparently drawing the line at his Facebook posts claiming gay people are nearly all pedophiles and responsible for over half the murders in New York City. The activists were shocked – shocked! – that Dave Agema, who has a long history of outlandish…
This morning Susan Demas announced that today’s column would be her last for MLive.com, apparently because she was asked by her full-time employer to stop. We didn’t always agree with Demas (like the time she called us a hype machine – tough but fair) but nearly always found that her posts were valuable to the…
Last fall, Borgess Health announced they’d be building a new ambulatory care facility in Battle Creek to break into a new market. The announcement was greeted with excitement by community members as it represented a $26 million investment in the local area. Unfortunately, despite the announcement being full of exciting language about investing in and…
This morning started with an op-ed from Speaker Jase Bolger about how despite the stagnant unemployment rate and the refusal of Lansing Republicans to fix our roads and invest in education, Michigan is “The Comeback State!” Unfortunately for Republican politicians, it was all downhill from there. The story of Detroit’s new Emergency Manager’s unpaid taxes…