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 campaign of former U.S. Rep. Joe Schwarz and a Republican political action group have agreed to pay $5,000 in fines related to an FEC complaint that the two improperly coordinated during the heated 2006 Republican primary in the 7th Congressional District against Tim Walberg.
Schwarz’s campaign and the Republican Main Street Partnership, a group that supports Republican moderates, will split the burden of the fine.
Schwarz, a former state senator from Battle Creek, for his part, says neither he, his staff or the PAC, Republican Main Street Partnership, did anything wrong.
The Jackson Citizen Patriot quoted Schwarz as saying:
“The FEC is an organization that is looking for a reason to exist…My committee got fined essentially for breathing.”
According to a report released by the Federal Election Commission this week, Schwarz’s campaign illegally consulted with the PAC to determine the text of a radio commercial and where that commercial should run. The complaint was made by the conservative Club for Growth which spent millions to support Walberg in the race. Walberg went on to win the seat, only served one term, losing to Democrat Mark Schauer.
According to the complaint, Schwarz’s then chief of staff, Matt Marsden, now chief of staff for Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop, exchanged emails with the PAC from January to June of 2006.
John Truscott, former spokesman for Republican Gov. John Engler, handled the media buys for the campaign, and claims it did nothing wrong.
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