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.
Republican presumptive Presidential nominee Sen. John McCain has managed to keep his number two selection silent, even as the media has gone bonkers trying to read the tea leaves, plane travel and secret service actions with various folks who have been listed as possibly being McCain’s choice.
Behind curtain number one was former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee. The evangelical was not overly popular with a lot of fiscal conservatives because of his tax record as governor, and since ending his bid for the presidency he has become a Fox News consultant. His curtain was ripped down by Huckabee himself.
There are reports that I’m on my way to Dayton tonight. Not true. Wasn’t invited to be there and any reports that I’m going to be there are a big surprise to me. I have never been contacted by the McCain campaign at any point about the VP slot. I have never been asked for any information, background, etc., so as I have said repeatedly in interviews, I didn’t consider myself to be under any consideration.
Thus exited the mighty Huck, from his own keyboard.
Behind curtain number two is former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney. Mittens, as he has been dubbed by others here on Michigan Messenger, has been in Denver slapping around Democratic rhetoric with a bit of his own.
Also present in Denver was the man behind curtain number three, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty. Pawlenty was also taking jabs at Democrats during their convention.
Both men attacked Sen. Joe Biden, Democratic nominee for the vice presidency.
Pawlenty hit Biden on his alleged long-windedness:
“They’re going to have to extend the length of the [vice presidential] debate to two or three hours because I don’t think he’s going to be able to fit his part of the debate in just one hour.”
While Romney was even more succinct in his attack on Biden:
“Joe Biden is an impenetrable thicket of words.”
Here at 7:30 a.m. the indicators do seem to be pointing towards a Pawlenty vice presidency bid. The man from Minnesota is a mostly untested politician, who has been able, barely, to win the governorship in traditionally Democratic Minnesota. Romney is a self-made millionaire, and a former first son of Michigan. But his Mormon faith has been a turn off to many evangelicals, a key constituency McCain has enough trouble with.
But, if all goes as the media pundits are right, we will know what the second name on the McCain ticket will be by noon today, when McCain appears in Dayton, Ohio with his Number Two.
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