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Michigan Republican Party Call To Convention

By Kevin Rex Heine, Section News
Posted on Mon May 14, 2012 at 07:55:24 AM EST
Tags: Michigan Republican State Convention, Presidential Primary, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Michigan's Republican National Committeeman, Saul Anuzis, Dave Agema, G. J. LaRouche, Michigan's Republican National Committeewoman, Holly Hughes, Terri Lynn Land, Michigan Banana Republican Party (all tags)

Due to the short amount of time between the county and state conventions, information packets will NOT be mailed to state convention delegates. PLEASE DISTRIBUTE all necessary information (forms provided) to convention delegates at your County Convention. We will email convention information following the county conventions.

Thus says the cover memo of the May 2012 Convention Packet e-mailed out from the Michigan Republican Party, back in March, to the County Chairs & Secretaries. Of particular interest should be Enclosures 14, 15, and 16:

Call to the 2012 Congressional District Caucuses
Call to the 2012 Spring State Convention
Tentative State Convention Agenda

Each is copied below.

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Thinking This Through

By Kevin Rex Heine, Section News
Posted on Thu May 10, 2012 at 01:09:38 PM EST
Tags: Republican National Committee, Michigan Republican State Convention, Presidential Primary, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Michigan's Republican National Committeeman, Saul Anuzis, Dave Agema, G. J. LaRouche, Michigan's Republican National Committeewoman, Holly Hughes, Terri Lynn Land, Michigan Banana Republican Party, disingenuous hypocrisy, backroom shenanigans, MIGOP Credentials Committee, "DELE-GATE" (all tags)

So, since this thing that I broke the story on two days ago has managed to make it to the national news media, I took the time to sit down over my evening coffee last night and channeled my high school debate coach (the late Bayard Gum), specifically a few things he taught me about how to reach a logically-solid conclusion.

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A Message To Our Legislators - Beware False Choices

Later, Dick

By Corinthian Scales, Section News
Posted on Tue May 08, 2012 at 09:16:40 PM EST
Tags: TEA Party Movement, National Committeeman, Dave Agema, Jen Gratz, MCRI, Right, Conservatives must vote, MI-GOP Overhaul Required, Rockefeller Republicans, NPV, Soros, Saul Anuzis (all tags)

Indiana TEA Partiers flush their career Senate RINO.

via USA Today

Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana was defeated in the state's Republican primary Tuesday, ending the 36-year career of a GOP elder statesman and handing the Tea Party movement its biggest upset victory so far in the 2012 elections.
Lugar was ousted by State Treasurer Richard Mourdock, whose campaign against the veteran lawmaker was backed by conservative groups including the Tea Party Express, the anti-tax Club for Growth, the National Rifle Association, the Tea Party-aligned Freedom Works, and former Republican Alaska governor Sarah Palin.
Rest here

Love it.

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Neither A Robo-Call Nor A Robo-Poll

By Kevin Rex Heine, Section News
Posted on Tue May 08, 2012 at 07:31:26 PM EST
Tags: Republican National Committee, Michigan Republican State Convention, Presidential Primary, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Michigan's Republican National Committeeman, Saul Anuzis, Dave Agema, G. J. LaRouche, Michigan's Republican National Committeewoman, Holly Hughes, Terri Lynn Land, Michigan Banana Republican Party (all tags)

About an hour ago I received a live phone call from a 517 area code number. You'll love this.

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This Is Our Chance

By Kevin Rex Heine, Section News
Posted on Wed May 02, 2012 at 11:59:01 PM EST
Tags: MIGOP May 2012 State Convention, Michigan's Republican National Committeeman, Saul Anuzis, Dave Agema, Gerald LaRouche, integrity argument, Michigan Tea Party Patriot Network, Justin Amash, county republican conventions (all tags)

You may recall that, a couple of days ago, I mentioned the initial Dave Agema endorsement list. I'd like to point out that not only has that list expanded considerably, but that expansion includes one very high-profile "get" that ought to, in my opinion, qualify as a major indicator of the intentions of the tea party insurgency for the Republican Party apparatus.

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Conservatives Support Dave Agema

By Kevin Rex Heine, Section News
Posted on Mon Apr 30, 2012 at 02:15:56 PM EST
Tags: MIGOP May 2012 State Convention, Michigan's Republican National Committeeman, Saul Anuzis, Dave Agema, integrity argument, Michigan Tea Party Patriot Network (all tags)

Break out your ever-handy Michigan Highway map and any random dark-colored Sharpie marker. Using a steady hand, trace the Sharpie along the I-69 corridor, from the Bluewater Bridge all the way through Kinderhook Township. In so doing, you've just drawn the major battle line of the Anuzis vs. Agema contest for the office of Michigan's Republican National Committeeman.

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Already Working The Phones

By Kevin Rex Heine, Section News
Posted on Sat Apr 28, 2012 at 08:54:30 AM EST
Tags: MIGOP May 2012 State Convention, Michigan's Republican National Committeeman, Saul Anuzis, Dave Agema, integrity argument, National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, Tom Pearce (all tags)

Yesterday, State Representative Dave Agema submitted his Convention Candidate Affidavit of Candidacy to the MIGOP Policy Committee (via the State Party Chairman), complete with the approval signatures of eight district chairs. Now, it's officially on. And an indication of how this campaign is going to be fought is the name that's showed up on my caller ID five times in the past 36 hours (though he somehow hasn't yet seen fit to leave a message on my voicemail).

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iCaucus Election Alert (and Recommendation)

By Kevin Rex Heine, Section News
Posted on Thu Apr 26, 2012 at 10:16:20 PM EST
Tags: MIGOP May 2012 State Convention, Michigan's Republican National Committeeman, Saul Anuzis, Dave Agema, integrity argument, Independence Caucus of Michigan (all tags)

You may remember me mentioning the Independence Caucus of Michigan in the context of the 2010 Michigan Secretary of State Republican Primary or this year's republican U. S. Senate primary. However, a couple of days ago I received an e-mail from a key member of the organization's leadership that indicated that they'd be getting involved in one of this year's convention races.