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 [...]
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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.
Politicians and interest groups alike have recently taken to using Twitter and other social networking activities, but former Michigan Republican Party chairman Saul Anuzis and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich aren’t happy with one particular Twitter account.
According to The Hill newspaper in Washington, D.C., the two conservative technophiles have threatened to sue an unnamed group supporting the Employee Free Choice Act for posts on an anonymous Twitter account “EFCANOW.” A letter sent by attorney’s representing the two claim the Twitter account implied that both Gingrich and Anuzis supported the pro-labor EFCA legislation.
From the Hill report:
“The posting falsely purports to have been written by Messrs. Gingrich and Anuzis and includes the Mark as well as the Twitter ‘handles’ of the foregoing individuals,” attorneys wrote in a letter. “The posting is deliberately designed to fraudulently induce readers into believing that…Messrs. Gingrich and Anuzis all support EFCA.”
The letter from the attorneys goes on to allege such violations as “trademark and publicity rights, and invokes trespassing and wire fraud laws, and maybe even so-called “RICO” laws, which are traditionally used to target organized crime groups,” the Hill reports.
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