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Citizens: Consumers Energy Permit to Drain Wetlands is Wrong Move

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                             CONTACT: Leigh FifelskiThursday October 28, 2010                                                                (517) 999.3646 Permit is part of a coal project that is already on hold Bay City, MI – Citizens today criticized a decision by the Department of Natural Resources and Environment to provide a permit to Consumers Energy to drain wetlands near Bay City for a…

Ouimet Should Return $35,000 of Wasted Taxpayer Money

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE         Monday, Oct. 11, 2010 Contact: Leigh Fifelski, (517) 999-3646 Documents show county commissioner’s questionable reimbursement claims  LANSING – Citizens group Progress Michigan today put a spotlight on the spending habits – at taxpayer expense – of Washtenaw County politician Mark Ouimet, who claimed more than $35,000 in reimbursements for wasteful and questionable…

Citizens Protest Johnson Outside Debate

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                          MORE INFORMATION: Friday, October 8, 2010                               David Holtz 517-999-3646 Secretary of State Candidate Criticized For Taking Money From State’s Biggest Corporate Election Law Violator                                                    EAST LANSING, MI–Citizens group Progress Michigan was joined by about two-dozen others this morning outside WKAR TV studios in East Lansing to protest Secretary of State Ruth Johnson’s accepting a…

Snyder’s Ag Plan Hurts Great Lakes, Promotes Pollution on Factory Farms

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CLEAN WATER ACTION, PROGRESS MICHIGAN & SIERRA CLUB FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                     Contact:   Anne Woiwode 517-484-2373                                                                                          Cyndi Roper 517-490-1394                                                                                         David Holtz 313-300-4454   LANSING – Citizens and environmental groups, including a Michigan farmer who won the world’s top environmental prize last year, today criticized Rick Snyder for taking a backwards and dangerous approach to policing big agricultural polluters…

West Bloomfield Politician Supports Fetus Transfers

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For immediate release September 27, 2010   Contact: Sarah Scranton, 517.505.4248 Shulman opposes abortion in all cases yet supports transferring fetuses from woman to woman   WEST BLOOMFIELD – Michigan state House candidate Lois Shulman supports transferring fetuses from woman to woman, an idea that appears taken from dystopian novels about totalitarian governments and social engineering, Planned…

Business Owners and Health Care Providers to Cheer End of Health Care Burden

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                                   Contact: Leigh Fifelski Thursday, September 23, 2010                                                                        (517) 999.3646                                           As Six Provisions Are Implemented, Businesses and Healthcare Advocates Cheer for Change Jackson – Business owners, health care advocates…

Citizens Criticize Kahn Plan that Protects Drunken Docs, Insurance Companies

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: TUESDAY, AUG. 24 2010  CONTACT: Leigh Fifelski Kahn’s costly plan to protect bad doctors endangers seniors, infants LANSING – Citizens today criticized legislation by Sen. Roger Kahn that would give doctors – and their insurance companies – complete immunity when emergency room doctors harm or kill patients, a plan that would endanger peoples’…

Oil Rig Thanks Walberg for Fighting to Drill in Great Lakes

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                             CONTACT: Leigh Fifelski THURSDAY, AUG. 19, 2010                                                                           (517) 999-3646   Walberg has taken $57,000 in campaign cash from Big Oil, gas firms   JACKSON – Big Oil Derrick today personally thanked Tim “Top Kill” Walberg, candidate for Congress, for standing on the side of Big Oil and supporting drilling in the Great Lakes – even if it  endangers…

Progress Michigan Praises U.S. Reps. Peters, Schauer for Help in Sending Job-Saving, State Assistance to the President’s Desk

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                 August 10, 2010 CONTACT:                                                         David Holtz  313.300.0054    Over Republican Delegation’s Objections, Congress Sends Jobs-Saving Legislation to President’s Desk   LANSING, MI – With help from U.S. Reps. Gary Peters (D-Bloomfield Hills) and Mark Schauer (D-Jackson), and six other Democratic representatives, emergency state assistance that will protect the jobs of teachers, police officers,…

Citizens Urge Dillon, Mayes to Pass Energy Reforms Now after MI Oil Disaster

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                           CONTACT: Leigh Fifelski Monday, August 9, 2010                                                                            (517) 999-3646   Renewable energy standard, energy efficiency will create jobs, strong energy economy   LANSING – ReEnergize Michigan! today called on House Speaker Andy Dillon and House energy committee Chair Jeff Mayes to immediately pass energy reforms – including a stronger renewable energy standard and doubling energy efficiency…