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 onslaught of radio, internet and billboard attacks bubbling up in the Republican primary for the nomination for governor is continuing to draw criticism from the candidates themselves.
As I reported this morning, the campaign of Ann Arbor business Rick Snyder sent a scathing letter to Mike Cox, the sitting attorney general, and another candidate, demanding he tell the Michigan Civic Education Fund to knock off its attack campaign. MCEF has been linked to robocalls attacking Snyder, as well as radio commercials which are playing in Detroit and Grand Rapids. It has also been tied to a web program attacking Mike Bouchard, the Oakland County Sheriff and another candidate.
Wednesday’s letter from the Snyder camp tied MCEF to the Cox campaign, noting that the front man, Cecil St. Pierre, is an appointed special assistant attorney general under Cox.
Cox’s spokesman, Stu Sandler says Cox has asked the ads be pulled, reports MLive:
“Mike’s asked for this to stop,” Sandler said. “It’s unfortunate there’s negative campaigning going on, Mike Cox has been the recipient of this for months.”
“I find it unfair and ridiculous that candidates have to go through this stuff.”
Meanwhile, the Bouchard campaign issued a press statement from Terri Lynn Land, the Michigan Secretary of State and Lt. Gov running mate of Bouchard, and Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson. MLive reports the pair wrote:
“We’d all be well served to remember Ronald Reagan’s 11th commandment, which states ‘Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican,’” Land and Patterson said. “We know all the Republican candidates for governor and believe they are good, principled individuals who care a great deal about the direction of our state.”
This statement might provoke a bit of irony considering the Bouchard campaign has hired Scott Howell and Company out of Dallas. The consulting firm has been tied to some of the most infamous political ads in the last decade. The ads have been so nasty, in fact, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) called them “reprehensible.” Consultants told Michigan Messenger on Tuesday that hiring Scott Howell and Company could mean only one thing, that the Bouchard camp was planning to head for the gutter.
In related news, the pot and the kettle have eloped to Vegas.
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