What if you showed up to work every day and did your job, then attended political party meetings where you bragged about intentionally sabotaging your job performance in order to advance a political goal? That might sound outrageous, but that is exactly the strategy being employed by Michigan’s Republican Secretary of State Ruth Johnson as…
The 2012 Center for Michigan state scorecard is out, and it contains some bad news for Gov. Snyder – namely that tax giveaways for rich CEOs and a little good luck aren’t good enough to, in the parlance used by the Rick for Michigan campaign, “provide tangible results for the programs citizens want and need.”…
Every Michigander should be proud of GM’s dramatic turnaround. But that doesn’t mean GM workers, drivers and shareholders should be underwriting GM’s membership to a controversial lobbying group like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). It’s time for GM to do the right thing. Big corporations like Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, and Kraft are fleeing ALEC in…
National Women’s Health Week is an opportunity to encourage women to make their health a top priority and empower women by giving them the tools they need to take control over their own healthcare and family planning decisions. We all have a role to play in women’s health. Together, we can help the women we…
Mitt Romney is bringing his Etch-A-Sketch campaign back to Michigan. We all remember how Romney said he would “let Detroit go bankrupt.” Now Romney’s Etch-A-Sketch campaign team is trying to pull a fast one – claiming that the plan to rescue the auto industry was actually Mitt’s idea. The trees are the right height in Michigan,…
The following post was written by the newest member of our team, Communications Director Jessica Tramontana. The news media worked itself into a frenzy last week, after a Florida blog speculated that Mitt Romney may be considering Gov. Rick Snyder as a candidate for for Vice President. Let’s take a quick trip down memory lane.…
Rep. Aric Nesbitt just doesn’t get it. He apparently wasn’t listening when we called him out last September for passing a resolution encouraging the federal government to kick farmers off their land to build the Keystone XL pipeline, even as cleanup of the tragic Enbridge oil spill in Southwest Michigan continued. And he definitely isn’t…
Republican politicians have been coordinating efforts since last year to make it harder for millions of Americans to vote. In Michigan, this process was kicked off by Secretary of State Ruth Johnson, who still hasn’t produced a shred of evidence that widespread fraud is a problem in Michigan, or that this legislation would have any…
In the six months since Secretary of State Ruth Johnson introduced her package of legislation aimed squarely at making it harder for people to vote, you would think she’d be able to come up with at least one example of voter fraud being committed in Michigan. Instead, committee hearings on the laws have found nothing…
Michigan didn’t get an “F” for voter fraud. No, Lansing politicians got an “F” from the State Integrity Project for risk of corruption and lack of transparency, a grade that put our state at 43rd. What was ALEC member and Chair of the House Redistricting and Elections Committee Rep. Pete Lund’s response to that? He…