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If any State could use a little luck of the Irish...By Nick, Section News
 Happy Saint Patrick's Day, lads and lasses. I guess. Of all the holidays we celebrate this is one that's always sorta been lost on me. Back at Brookside Elementary I used to like getting a free green bagel but that's about it. Now, admittedly, that could be because I am not a drinker. I've never so much as ingested a drop... it's just not for me (which, sadly, makes me an anomaly in the Michigan political world where the social component of just about everything includes moderate to large amounts of hard liquor). Now, my friends in Lansing? Today's a special day. I've actually got one friend (who shall remain nameless) who identifies St. Patrick's day as the high holy day of the year and spends the entire three or four days surrounding the date on an extended pub crawl in a perpetual drunken stupor. Every year (s)he goes out and the rest of us wonder, will (s)he survive and when will that liver shut down? Got to be the luck of the Irish keeping him / her going. OK, I'm through with the multiple pronouns. Promise. But not with talk of luck and miracles. Because there are folks all across the Great Lakes State who could use a little (or a lot of) leprechaun's luck today. Hillary Clinton, for example. That Michigan re-do election that late last week was starting to look so much like a certainty has suddenly flown straight off the tracks and it might take more than the luck of the Irish to get things moving again. And, frankly, I'm surprised it took this long for things to come unglued. Can anyone answer me, in a close delegate race like this where Barack Obama is hoping desperately to run out the clock with his lead in tact, what is his incentive for going into overtime? Keeping Michigan off the books might disenfranchise a few million voters but it gives him his best chance of winning. And who cares about Michigan issues if you can become the most powerful man in the world by only caring about 48 or 49 other states, right? Here's the list of issues as they stand now: Read on...
"Clinton folks will do anything to open Michigan back up," said Hunter, who is co-chairman of the Obama campaign in Michigan.
"She is in a hunt for delegates. Why this sudden pull out all the stops to give Hillary Clinton every opportunity to try to catch up? Guess what? It's not going to happen. This legislator is not going to facilitate it."
Here's the math--the Bureau of Elections needs 60 to 70 days to get ready for an election. The target date and really the latest date possible to hold a revote (because of DNC rules) is June 3rd . 60 days would be Friday, April 4. 70 days would be Tuesday, March 25. Both of those dates fall under the House's fancy little spring break. So unless Dillon cancels his Dem vacation entirely to round up the two-thirds majority he needs to make a re-vote happen, a voting percentage that's far from certain within the Dem caucus, let alone the House as a whole, it just plain isn't going to happen. That makes this week key. Things happen by Thursday or it'll take something less out of Ireland and more on the order of an Easter miracle to get anything accomplished. Not that a four leaf clover wouldn't come in handy down in Detroit where the Associated Press reports the Downtown Detroit Partnership and Roger Penske (of NASCAR fame) will begin a new marketing campaign aimed at luring folks into the center city.
Partnership president Ann Lang says the campaign will spread the word about the city's strong entertainment, cultural events, sports venues and other attractions. They might need to spend a little more than three-quarters of a million dollars, though, if they're going to counter the front page headlines on every area newspaper discussing Kwame Kilpatrick's ongoing legal saga, the potential perjury charges that might be handed down this week, his friends and partners in graft and corruption who've been arrested and charged in the past with attempted murder and the "exotic dancers" who just happen to have had run-ins with Hizzoner's wife before winding up dead. Toss in a healthy dose of Matt Millen and the City has a lot of obstacles to overcome. But go Detroit! Thank God for the Tigers, Wings and Pistons. Oh, and if the City has any of that special green luck left over they should send it on to the good folks standing outside American Axle as their strike hit's the third week. UAW President Ron Gettelfinger has been awfully busy negotiating... a Dem primary revote... and hasn't done much to get forty-thousand-six-hundred some odd workers back on the job so maybe St. Patty can do it. The Oakland Press reports that:
Oh, well, "ongoing dialogue..." that's reassuring.
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