FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: David HoltzFriday, October 29, 2010 313.300.4454 Guide Spotlights Endorsements of Progressive Groups LANSING – Citizens group Progress Michigan today unveiled its 2010 Michigan Voter Guide, an online guide for voters showcasing the endorsed candidates of Michigan’s progressive community. “We are excited to release our 2010 Michigan Voter Guide — our first…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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’…
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…
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,…