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.
Randall Terry, founder of the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue, is organizing a civil disobedience campaign aimed at derailing Rudy Giuliani’s presidential bid.
“Rudy Giuliani is an enemy to the Reagan revolution,” Terry told the Michigan Messenger by phone from Florida where he was preparing for a press conference in front of the Duval County Republican headquarters. “He is a Democrat in Republican clothing. Our whole agenda is to expose his history.”
Terry — whose group sustained thousands of arrests while blocking abortion clinics in the late 1980s and early 1990s — said that he is particularly disturbed by Giuliani’s positions on abortion, gay rights and gun ownership.
“He revoked the Catholic Church’s permit to have a parade on St. Patrick’s Day because they wouldn’t allow homosexuals to march. He is an enemy of the Second Amendment — our God-given right to self defense. New York City has more gun control that any city in the nation.”
Continued -But it is Giuliani’s support for women’s right to have abortions that is central to Terry’s “Stop Rudy” campaign.
Last week campaign members disrupted a meeting at Giuliani’s New Hampshire headquarters, shouting that the former New York mayor is a “child killer” and refusing to leave. Fourteen members of the Stop Rudy campaign were arrested and Terry spent a night in jail.
Terry said that he believes his campaign is having an effect on Giuliani’s. “The more we expose him, the poorer he does,” he said.
In Florida, the group plans to trail Giuliani to campaign appearances throughout the state. Stop Rudy campaigners will picket and target Catholics and evangelicals with leaflets that equate support for abortion rights with support for slavery.
“One position should be enough to disqualify a candidate,” Terry said. “We will derail Rudy in Florida by Jan. 29, so that we can bury his campaign for good on Feb. 5.”
Giuliani has skipped campaigning in Michigan’s Jan. 15 primary to focus on Florida and other states with later primaries. Because he placed fourth in the Iowa and New Hampshire contests, Florida is now considered crucial for Giuliani. The Giuliani campaign did not return calls for comment.
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