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.
Grand Traverse County Clerk Linda Coburn, a Republican, claims that Secretary of State candidate Michelle McManus, the Republican state senator from Lake Leelanau, and her father Mike McManus, tried to pressure her into approving flawed affidavits from candidates seeking election as precinct delegates.
The Traverse City Record Eagle reports:
Coburn said the two in May tried to pressure her to approve flawed affidavits from candidates who sought election as precinct delegates on the Aug. 3 primary ballot.
Precinct delegates decide who goes to the state convention to cast votes for Secretary of State, as well as other party nominees for the Nov. 2 general election.
Mike McManus recruited precinct delegate candidates in Leelanau and Grand Traverse counties who would support his daughter’s nomination. He then hand-delivered some of those affidavits to Coburn, who said several of those documents needed to be amended because they contained errors or lacked necessary information.
“He wanted me to just fill in the information myself. He wanted me to just change their affidavits,” Coburn said. “You can’t alter somebody’s affidavit. I know what the law is, and you have to follow it.”
McManus points to her work as chair of the Senate Campaign and Elections Committee as evidence that she is qualified to serve as Secretary of State, but the Traverse City Record Eagle reports that many county clerks feel that she has failed to use her position to advance needed reforms and that she lacks election administration experience.
According to the Record Eagle nine of 11 county clerks within McManus’ district, and most county clerks statewide, do not support her bid to become Secretary of State.
Coburn said that she will vote Democrat if McManus becomes the Republican nominee for Secretary of State.
The Republicans will pick their nominee at a party convention this Saturday.
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