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.
After a protracted meeting this morning and afternoon, an unexpectedly long lunch after 3:00 pm, and a heated period of debate, the Democratic National Committee’s Rules and Bylaws Committee (RBC) voted to seat all the delegates of Michigan and Florida, allowing each delegate 1/2 vote. Harold Ickes, both a member of the RBC and a [...]
[Ed. note: the DNC's Rules and Bylaws Committee meeting is now underway this Saturday morning and can be watched live on C-SPAN both on cable and on the internet. Michigan-based blogger Marcy Wheeler is also liveblogging the meeting from the meeting venue; follow along with her via her blog. Michigan is back in the national [...]
The Michigan Democratic Party petitioned the Democratic National Committee with a plan concocted by its own “Blue Ribbon Committee” petitioning for a 69-59 split in favor of Hillary Clinton, but sat on a validly submitted citizen complaint from a Washtenaw County attorney that would, following the letter of DNC law, give the state to Obama [...]
UPDATE — 4:00 PM EDT – The petition drive has now been launched at FireDogLake; click here to read the post. CLICK HERE for the petition itself. 11:51 AM EDT – Michigan Messenger has learned that a petition drive based on a grassroots proposal outlining distribution of delegates between Democratic candidates will be launched this [...]
Sen. Hillary Clinton has won the Pennsylvania primary, leaving Michigan’s Democratic presidential delegates in agonizing limbo. Clinton badly needed the win, even though she continues to trail Sen. Barack Obama in total votes and delegates. But her continued presence in the race means no resolution in sight for delegates here hoping to get seated at [...]
As Michigan Democratic Party activists convene this weekend to select their congressional district delegates, no doubt the focus will be on the continuing primary mess. There’s little agreement among state party leaders about who’s to blame for failing to ensure that those Michigan delegates have a secure place at the party’s national convention. The April [...]
Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean met with Florida lawmakers Wednesday to determine how to allocate the state’s delegates among the party’s presidential candidates. The Associated Press reported that Dean said the party is committed to seating Florida’s delegates at this summer’s nominating convention. The party stripped Florida and Michigan of their delegates because they [...]
There’s no formal Democratic response yet to a plan by a Michigan congressman to resolve the state’s primary delegate dilemma. U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Menominee, in a letter Monday to Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, suggested the committee split the state’s 83 pledged delegates based on results of Michigan’s Jan. 15 primary and divide [...]
The protracted battle for Democratic National Convention delegates between Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama is confusing to average voters, looks unseemly and worries Democrats whose party conflict is set in relief by the GOP’s unified support of John McCain. But according to an expert in electoral politics, the delegate selection process varies from state [...]
Michigan Democratic Party leaders are still hunting for a solution to the controversy over their national convention delegates, but each passing day makes a state primary do-over less likely. The state party has postponed for two weeks district conventions to select the majority of the state’s delegates. Those conventions had been scheduled for this weekend. [...]
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