PerfectStormer at Michigan Liberal did what I should have done when I posted about the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index for this year: looked at how Michigan-based companies scored on their treatment of LGBT equality. more »
Community protest at McCain regional headquarters
By Minehaha Forman 9/13/08
Families facing home foreclosure outraged at news they may lose their vote, too
Rove tricks? McCain absentee ballots raise questions
Non-standard unsolicited absentee ballots are being mailed by McCain’s campaign; is this a “dirty trick”?
Brayton’s Bag o’ Links gets uppity
Irony lives: Newt resurfaces to save marriage, Republican Senator bemoans domestic wiretaps, and The Daily Show notes teenage pregnancy is okay if you’re a Republican
Obama, McCain: A tale of two Michigan campaign stops
Two candidates, two distinctly different Detroit-area town hall events reveal major differences between the campaigns.
1980s savings and loan bailout haunts John McCain
Will the Democrats think to raise its specter? Republicans putting faith in Americans’ short memories?
GM Volt invaded by body snatchers?
“Leaked” photos of the GM Volt don’t look much like the concept car…do they?
How to: stick it to the gays, 50 boycotts at a time
Ed Brayton has some advice for those religious right folks who want to avoid supporting the Evil Gay Agenda ™
Detroit still building $1.5 million Livernois median, despite outcry
Left in Kilpatrick’s wake, median partition divides more than traffic in Detroit
Lose your house, lose your vote
Michigan Republicans may be planning to foreclose African American voters
VIDEOS: Obama draws diverse crowd to Farmington Hills
By Minehaha Forman 9/9/08Dem candidate Obama displays an easy, comfortable style of campaigning with a diverse audience in Farmington Hills.
Obama: McCain “must not be talking to people here in Michigan”
Democratic candidate ramps up the heat on GOP during town hall in Farmington Hills
Obama condemns “shameless” McCain campaign
FARMINGTON HILLS, MICH. -– “These folks are shameless!” thundered Sen. Barack Obama, after listing his Republican opponents’ distortions and economic plans. The line drew roaring approval from a packed gym at North Farmington High School on Monday night, where about 1,500 Michiganders had gathered to support the Democratic ticket.
Fight for the soul of Michigan’s highest court
Arch-conservative Clifford Taylor stands at the heart of a $20 million battle
VIDEO: McCain and Palin revisit the RNC in Michigan
Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain and his VP pick, Gov. Sarah Palin, rode the Straight Talk Express into the Freedom Hill Amphitheatre in Sterling Heights Michigan on Friday evening to a crowd of more than 7,000 people.
VIDEO: McCain, Palin, and Jesus?
By Minehaha Forman 9/5/08Religion permeated Friday’s McCain campaign event in ‘God’s country’
McCain and Palin relive national convention in Michigan
McCain tells audience: “I need to win the state of Michigan.”
McCain presents self as maverick, reformer
GOP nominee pivots away from Bush, stresses foreign-policy expertise
McCain’s landlord
Trott and Trott, foreclosure specialists, hosts the Republican candidate in Michigan
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Michigan companies do well on gay equality
By Ed Brayton 9/13/08 9:14 AM
Granholm to play Palin in Biden debate prep
By Ed Brayton 9/13/08 9:08 AM
Messenger rejects GOP plea for retraction
By Jefferson Morley 9/12/08 5:43 PM
The Michigan Republican Party is demanding, via press release, a retraction of the Michigan Messenger story “Lose your house, lose your vote.”
In the article, Macomb County Republican Party chairman James Carabelli was quoted as saying, “We will have a list of foreclosed homes and will make sure people aren’t voting from those addresses.”
Carabelli contends the quotes as reported by Eartha Jane Melzer were “fabricated.” State Republican chairman Saul Anuzis charges the story is a “complete fabrication.”
The story will not be retracted because Carabelli’s and Anuzis’ claims are without merit. The quotes were accurately reported. Melzer, the Michigan Messenger and the Center for Independent Media stand behind this story 100 percent.
Ads Obama needs
By Tony Collings 9/12/08 11:23 AM
Let’s face it. Right now the Obama campaign seems to be outpunched by the McCain campaign, what with their nasty but effective lies, their clever use of Sarahmania, their terrifying images of wolves, their distractions about pigs, and their overblown patriotism. Between now and election day, it’s going to come down to the debates and the ads. Here are two proposed TV ads that I think could help put Obama over the top:
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Michiganders see red about voters’ rights threat
By LoRayne Apo-Joynt 9/11/08 7:00 PM
Wow, we touched a nerve with Eartha Melzer’s article, “Lose your house, lose your vote.” We’ve had many angry visitors leaving comments about the possible threat to voters who’ve been through foreclosure here in Michigan.
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Foreclosure may not be ‘proper cause’ for challenging voters at polls
By Todd A. Heywood 9/11/08 4:56 PM
As reported by Michigan Messenger’s Eartha Melzer yesterday and updated this afternoon, the Michigan Republican Party is planning, was planning or secretly remains planning to challenge voters based on foreclosure activity for properties at which voters may be registered.
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Republicans recant plans to foreclose voters but admit other strategies
By Eartha Jane Melzer 9/11/08 3:41 PM
The Macomb County Republican Party chair who told Michigan Messenger earlier this week that Republicans planned to challenge voters at the polls using a list of foreclosed homes has changed his story.
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