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Progress Michigan To Deliver Michiganders’ Love Letters to Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop, Speaker of the House Andy Dillon

MEDIA RELEASE Contact: David Holtz Thursday, February 25, 2010 (517) 999-3646 Letters Submitted by Michigan Residents Urge Bishop, Dillon to Show Michigan Some Love LANSING – Hundreds of love letters from Michigan residents were hand-delivered to the offices of Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop and Speaker of the House Andy Dillon today. Michiganders from across…

Legislators Applauded for Strengthening Clean Energy Standards, Fighting for Jobs

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Leigh Fifelski Thursday, February 25, 2010 (517) 999-3646 Plan will boost renewable energy standard to 30 percent by 2025 LANSING – ReEnergize Michigan! today applauded Michigan legislators for introducing a plan that would ramp up Michigan’s renewable energy standard, or RES, to 30 percent by 2025, up from the current 10…

Bishop’s ‘Reforms’ Attack Everybody but Him

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: DAVID HOLTZ Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010 517-999-3646 Senate Leader’s Proposals Aimed At Michigan’s Middle-Class Workers; Bishop Should Lead By Example At A Time When Citizens Are Suffering LANSING – Citizens watchdog group Progress Michigan today called on Sen. Mike Bishop to include himself and all current legislators in his so-called “reform”…

New Coal Plant will Hurt Michigan Wallets, Jobs, Health

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: LEIGH FIFELSKI Thursday, Jan. 14, 2009 (517) 999-3646 Granholm Administration’s decision to OK Bay City plant will kill jobs; won’t protect families LANSING – Clean energy and environmental groups today criticized Michigan’s Department of Environmental Quality for giving the green light to a controversial coal plant project in Bay City, and…

Progress Michigan Calls for Federal Investigation of Attorney General, Detroit Police

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Leigh Fifelski Thursday, November 12, 2009 517-999-3646 Request Justice Dept. Investigate Claims Cox Impeded Police Probe Into Kilpatrick, Manoogian Party LANSING, MI – Citizen’s watchdog group Progress Michigan, in a letter to the U.S. Attorney for eastern Michigan, called upon the federal Department of Justice to conduct an independent investigation of…

Senate Republicans Sharply Criticized In Wake of Budget Debacle

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: David Holtz Friday, October 30, 2009 313-300-4454 LANSING, MI—Citizens watchdog group Progress Michigan blasted Senate Republicans today in the aftermath of budget signings by the Governor that signaled a failure of state leaders to agree on compromise solutions to Michigan’s revenue crisis. “What comes next will be a slow motion catastrophe…

Opponents of Kalamazoo Ordinance 1856 Same As Those Who Make False Claims in Backing the Repeal of Affirmative Action

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Don’t Let Them Get Away With It Again! KALAMAZOO, MI—Leaders of the group opposed to the expansion of the current City of Kalamazoo non-discrimination ordinance have a history of using misinformation to confuse voters When she pushed for the 2006 ban on affirmative action then-Kalamazoo City Commissioner Mary Balkema clamed Proposal 2…