I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
The Utah GOP is widely known for having an unusually high number of…oh, let’s say colorful characters. They’ve got state Sen. Chris Buttars, who got stripped of his committee assignments by his own party leadership in February for claiming gays were a bigger threat to the country than terrorists, and Don Larsen, a state Republican delegate who recently proposed a resolution claiming that the Democratic party was headed by Satan. So Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, a moderate Republican himself, is probably accustomed to dealing with craziness. But Michigan’s GOP seems intent on showing Huntsman that our state’s Republicans can be just as bad.
First he was invited to speak to the Kent County GOP on Saturday. Then they found out that he’s not sufficiently anti-gay enough for them — he actually supports civil unions, though not same-sex marriage — and they withdrew the invitation. But now new state GOP chairman Ron Weiser has re-invited Huntsman to speak in Grand Rapids at a different event:
On Tuesday, however, state Republican Chairman Ron Weiser arranged for Huntsman to meet party faithful Saturday morning at the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel instead.
This is revealing a pretty obvious split in the Republican party, both in Michigan and nationally. Jennnifer Hoff, spokesperson for the Michigan GOP, told the paper, “Michigan Republicans are excited to host Governor Jon M. Huntsman Jr. and listen to his ideas on education reform.”
But social conservatives like Gary Glenn of the American Family Association’s Michigan office are gung ho to keep moderates like Huntsman out of the party and out of the state. He told the Salt Lake Tribune, “Presumably he [Huntsman] is testing the waters [for a presidential run] and we hope he realizes now the waters in Michigan will be hazardous to someone who endorses the homosexual activist political agenda.”
An interesting metaphor; perhaps he just means that Gov. Huntsman shouldn’t be eating walleye from the Saginaw area.
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