Tom Stroup, chairman of the 11th Congressional Republican Committee, would only say, "The leadership of the 11th District Committee made a decision to cancel the dinner at this point in time."

What is Gov. Snyder holding over your head for you to suddenly stifle your guest speaker, Mr. Stroup?

Snyder spokeswoman Sara Wurfel didn't deny talking to the two groups. "There was just strong concern that Dick Morris is a hired gun with a divisive agenda who clearly doesn't have Michigan's best interests in mind," she said.

Boy howdy!  That governors office decision of who is able to speak their voice within the MI-GOP sure as hell smacks of a recently witnessed Mayor O'Reilly's City of Dearborn free speech zones.  Not good.  And, in regard to the NITC, really not good when most everywhere one looks online it points to the fact that this public bridge fiasco is not only not merited, it's not even anywhere close to being self-sustaining.

Tea party supporters upset with the June 9 cancellation have booked Morris for an alternate dinner the same night.

Dennis Moore, director of the Willow Run Tea Party Caucus in Washtenaw County, is helping organize the Waterford Township dinner. "The governor called and strong-armed them into not having Dick Morris as a speaker," Moore said. "Just because we don't agree with the governor on an issue, does that mean (we should be) quieted?"

Dennis Moore, God bless you, sir.  Thank you for rising to the challenge of this broad-based overreach of Lansing government.  Frankly, I'm also disappointed with our Republican Majority Michigan Legislature's absence of discussion on the "Granholm Bridge: Part Deux" while Governor Snyder rushes along his opaque NITC bill.

Jim Thienel, chairman of the Oakland County GOP's Lincoln Day dinner, said they received "mild" pressure from the governor's camp not to book Morris.

"If the governor expresses some concern, you consider everything," Thienel said. "But we had sold tickets, it had been advertised, and there had been no absolute demand. Overall I thought everything was handled very well on the (governor's) end."

Oh?  Pressured but the show goes on anyway?  Honestly, with being born and raised there, that sure looks to me a lot like a big 'ol old-fashioned Oakland County Conservative way of saying GFY to a group-hugging Millikenesque Governor sitting in Lansing when not hanging out in liberal Ann Arbor.