Not much after I'd posted this article, I received a phone call from Randy Bishop, who wanted to discuss it and ask me to correct some factual errors.

• Any impression from the Detroit News article (or any other source) that he is in any way a public face for MI4CS is inaccurate.  He is an active supporter of the effort, but nothing more.

• Likewise, the candidate forum on January 14th is not in any way a "debate" and Marisa Schultz' statement to that effect in the Detroit News is a misrepresentation.

• Randy flatly denied that this is a power grab . . . and he wouldn't be involved in it if it were.  Rather, MI4CS is an effort to coordinate the Michigan Tea Party Patriot Network for the purpose of one specific election.  If the concept works well, then it'll be considered for 2014 as a means to unseat Carl Levin.  (My own observation here:  I know Randy well enough to believe him when he says that he'd never participate in a power grab if he knew that's what it was.  He was one of the tea party leaders opposing the shenanigans at the Gathering of Eagles back in August of 2010.)