Big ups especially to our winners, who blogged, started blogs, cross-posted articles, voted on RightyBlogs and BlogNetNews, emailed family and friends about RightMichigan and added other great Michigan conservative blogs to their blogrolls... among other things!

So without further ado... our winners:

The GRAND PRIZE: A one-day guest pass to the Republican National Convention in Minnesota the first week of September...

The WINNER is: Jason Gillman from Michigan Taxes Too Much!  

Not only did Jason start a new companion blog at Toxic Taxation, he actually broke national news by uncovering Nancy Pelosi's financial conflict of interest in using folks like Bart Stupak to prevent domestic drilling and energy independence.  

He blogged almost daily, cross-posted frequently, significantly contributed to other discussions here on Right Michigan and elsewhere and generally kicked all sorts of backside.

Now we can all look forward to Jason's blog coming at us directly from the RNC National Convention!  Congratulations, sir, and well done!

FIRST RUNNER UP: An autographed copy of Newt Gingrich's latest book, "Real Change."

The WINNER is: Nathan from Republican Ranting!  

Nate was a close second and was all over the Right Roots during the bloggers challenge.  Beautiful work.  Congrats!

SECOND RUNNER UP: A $50 gas card sponsored by MRP Chairman / Blogger Saul Anuzis.

The WINNER is: Joan from The World According to Me!

Joan helped separate herself from the competition with a couple of trips to visit our friends from the Democratic Party, staging protests at Barack Obama's visit to the Lansing Center and Nancy Pelosi's flop of a taxpayer funded book tour.  Of course she blogged all about it, too, and watered the Right Roots by leaving comments, joining discussions and cross-posting frequently.  Great job!  

THIRD RUNNER UP: An autographed copy of Grover Norquist's "Leave Us Alone".

The WINNER is: Shell from The Conservatrarian!  

Conservatrarian was one of several blogs launched during the challenge and is already one of my favorites.  Shell is a conservative Michigan mom AND one heck of an outgoing bulldog for common sense, even joining Joan at the Pelosi protest.  All sorts of fantastic work all over the sphere during the challenge.

FINALISTS: A RightMichigan.com t-shirt. (Fire up!)

The WINNERS are:  Other bloggers who went above and beyond include...

RougMan from the RougBlog

Jacob from the Blog of Bodnar

Dennis from Dennis Lennox's Diary

David from The HinzSight Report

And...

Kevin Rex Heine here on RightMichigan.  

Congratulations again to everyone who participated in the bloggers challenge. We've got one heck of a great farm team of conservative political observers, citizen journalists, pundits and activists cruising at top speed here in Michigan.  Just about any state in the nation would be jealous of what we've got going on.  Mad props and well done!

Now here's the trick... let's keep those juices flowing and the content coming on blogs across the sphere.  This was an above-awesome start.  The future... that's going to be something to see!