Next stop: Citizens initiative to force ‘forensic audit’
Republican leaders would love to turn the heads of grassroots activists.
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As the Capitol world evolves in 20 years, City Pulse thrives
The light on my landline telephone answering machine was blinking.
Schor weaker Than ’17, still in solid shape going into November
At 50% support among primary voters and with fat campaign coffers, it's Schor's race to lose
The GOP candidate Whitmer should be most concerned about
Who in a potential 10-person Republican gubernatorial field should Democrats be most concerned about? Probably not the person you think.
4 ways money stirred the political cocktail this week
Money stirs the drink in politics. And until we get around to voting next year on a host of state-level contests, the horse race over who is raising what motivates us political types.
Redistricting panel a train wreck waiting to happen
Michigan’s experiment with plucking random people off the street to run an important government function took, yet, another public relations blow last week.
State law may soon protect sexual orientation and gender
In 1999, a moderate Republican (like a real moderate) named Patricia “Pan” Godchaux from Oakland County first proposed a bill in Michigan to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation.
Michigan’s redistricting commission no magic bullet for Democrats
Michigan Democrats are beaming that Republicans are not concocting the new legislative and congressional lines this year.
As backups at SOS offices continue, Benson becomes a bigger GOP target
Back in 2002, the Michigan Republican Party had a nifty (albeit unsuccessful) slogan for the three major Democratic gubernatorial candidates:
Trump loyalists seek to cancel the leader of the state GOP
Don’t call them protesters and don’t say there’s a fracture in the Michigan Republican Party.