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View Comments Lansing — A filing Thursday from a Democratic attorney contends that Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey has quietly been at the center of the Unlock Michigan campaign to repeal a law that underpinned Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's initial COVID-19 response. Shirkey, R-Clarklake, has used Unlock Michigan "to achieve his political goal of repealing that law, a plan executed by his agents under his direction and control and funded with his dark money," wrote Democratic attorney Mark Brewer in asking the Secretary of State's office to reconsider a campaign finance complaint involving th...

Yesterday, I wrote about the one year anniversary of the first diagnosed COVID case in Michigan.  Today, I want to spend some time talking about the coordinated attacks Governor Whitmer has faced as she has tried to save the lives of Michiganders.  I have shared my previous thoughts on Senator Mike Shirkey. But those were merely his words and actions in his official capacity, “serving” the people of Michigan. Perhaps even more insidious are his ties to Unlock Michigan – the political power grab aimed at removing emergency powers from Governor Whitmer (and any Michigan Governor who com...

LANSING — Michigan’s gerrymandered political districts fueled extremist politics and helped give rise to President Donald Trump and his enablers in Congress, according to a consultant who helped draw them. "I do admit some culpability in the whole redistricting and gerrymandering," said Jeff Timmer, a former executive director of the Michigan Republican Party who is now a prominent Trump critic with the Lincoln Project, a political action committee of former Republicans formed last year to prevent the president’s re-election. Timmer helped draw uncompetitive “safe districts” for th...

Group's citizens for fiscal responsibility. their spokesman, bob labrant told reporters, quote, they've gone through all of the time and expense only to blow it with the wrong font size. see, you better not take this democracy thing too far. it takes lots of times and it's got lots of rules and you might blow it. senior counsel at a lansing-based firm that works on republican-based causes. if you look at the filing papers with the state you'll see that the address is the exact same thing as the sterling corporation and lives inside this republican firm. same street address, same street, you ca...

What is the problem with the petition that they put at the top of their list? quote, the font size of the heading is significantly smaller than is required by michigan election law. seriously? really? seriously in really. the font size of the heading is too small. as someone commented on our blog this week, if they really are citizens for fiscal responsibility, you might think they would like a smaller font because they would save money on ink and paper. they told us that they stand by their work. the folks who printed the petition have assured them that the font is the right legal size. but n...