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.
BIRCH RUN — Moments before Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee took to the stage here today for a campaign appearance for Michigan’s Jan. 15 primary, State Rep. John Stahl of Lapeer, who had been a Huckabee supporter, pulled Huckabee aide Bishop Keith Butler aside and said he was “not going down with the (Huckabee) ship.”
“I’m done,” Stahl told Butler in a conversation witnessed by this reporter. “I might go to the (Mitt) Romney team now.”
Stahl only endorsed Huckabee publicly two days ago in a press release.
Stahl said Michigan representatives of the former Arkansas governor, especially Gary Glenn, president of the conservative American Family Association of Michigan, were “out for themselves.”
Butler turned his back to the crowd to listen to Stahl, then lead Stahl over to meet one of Huckabee’s top campaign aides. There was a whispered conference between Butler, Stahl and the campaign official. Then Huckabee came out to speak and Stahl sat down.
Stahl appears to have been upset that Glenn was on the dias while Stahl was made to sit in the crowd. Stahl remained at the Birch Run Expo Center while Huckabee spoke. But the incident also indicates some friction between fiscal conservatives like Stahl and social conservatives like Glenn
After the rally, Stahl acknowledged in an interview that he had threatened to leave Huckabee, but that Butler had cleared everything up. Butler declined to comment on the incident.
Stahl refused to say what the confusions and misunderstandings were which lead to his threat, but said, “I support Mike Huckleberry (sic) one hundred percent.”
Stahl declined to comment if he thought the campaign was “a sinking ship.”
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