Progress Michigan blog posts.
The GOP is having trouble managing the Tea Party contingent, and now Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips is slamming House Speaker John Boehner: “Charlie Sheen is now making more sense than John Boehner,” Phillips wrote in his blog earlier this month. In an interview with FoxNews.com Thursday, Phillips said he stands by his comments…
Representative Pete Lund (R – Shelby Township) is hard at work keeping it classy: “They’re just mad because they can’t use their bridge cards to buy beer anymore.” – Rep. Pete LUND (R-Shelby Twp.) commenting on the large contingent of university students protesting in the Capitol today. Screenshot below:
Governor Rick Snyder’s “winners and losers” budget proposes raising taxes on low-income workers and senior citizens to give an 86 percent tax break to corporations and other businesses. Governor Snyder calls that Value for Michigan and this week TV ads using kids as political props to attack teachers were launched defending his budget. We don’t…
Join progressives, workers, families and other citizens from across the state in protesting against 86% tax cut for corporations, 36% tax hikes for workers and retirees, proposed elimination of food safety inspectors, assaults on collective bargaining, abandonment of clean energy policies and the Emergency Financial Manager bill that guts democracy. We’ll be culling the Twitterverse…
Governor Rick Snyder’s “winners and losers” budget proposes raising taxes on low-income workers and senior citizens to give an 82 percent tax break to corporations and other businesses. Governor Snyder calls that Value for Michigan. It should be called Value for Michigan CEOs, reflecting a proposed state budget that is more like a Monopoly game…
Originally posted by Alex Yerkey on Clean Water Action’s website. If it Ain’t Broke… U.S. House Tackles Clean Air, Water & Everybody Loses by Alex Yerkey I watched the U.S. House of Representatives “hard at work” until (far too) late into the early morning last Saturday. They were debating on the Continuing Budget Resolution. As amendment…
Remember a year ago when Rep. Kim Meltzer sponsored SB 1070? SB 1070 was a law aimed at undocumented immigrants and heavily drawn from Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer’s immigration law. Remember how you wrote Rep. Kim Meltzer emails and called and she eventually dropped the entire endeavor? Well, Rep. Dave Agema has picked up the…
In his tightly scripted command performance yesterday that purposely avoided questioning from the media, Governor Rick Snyder did more than unveil a budget. Unintentionally, he began unraveling myths he constructed with nearly $11 million in campaign advertising last year. Ironically—given that Snyder created himself on TV—it was an actor today that began pulling the threads…
Below is a sampling of some of the Tweets sent out today in response to Gov. Rick Snyder’s budget proposal. @gretchenwhitmer Gretchen Whitmer I don’t need a study with metrics to tell me that slashing education and elimination of EITC is NOT the ‘right thing’ for kids in Michigan. —————————————————————————————————————- @joedisano Joe DiSano I am…
Today the skin gets pealed from the budget onion and CEOs across Michigan are hoping to cash in on big bonuses this year courtesy of Governor Rick Snyder and paid for by the rest of us. What Snyder is proposing in his budget is a massive, job-killing shift in wealth that robs from the poor…