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Tag: Sherry Loar

Sammie Speech

By JGillman, Section News
Posted on Sun Apr 10, 2011 at 04:36:43 PM EST
Tags: Sherry Loar, Rob Port, Sammies, Sam Adams Alliance, Chicago, Chetly Zarko, Watchdog, 2011 (all tags)

This will likely be the last self promotion I will have on this, but there will be additional Sammie videos posted in the multimedia section as time allows.

I was a finalist, then won, and split the prize with Chetly Zarko for the watchdog award at the Sam Adams Alliance event as mentioned previously.

The other two finalists Rob Port of Minot ND, and Sherry Loar of Petoskey were both worthy of this award, so its with a greater sense of humility that I accepted it. Its really a big deal. Rob runs a watchdog type blog which is like a combination of the Blog Prof's site, and RightMichigan.com. Sherry took the lead as the plaintiff fighting the forced unionization scam, who sacrificed both monetarily and psychologically in dealing with the collusive measure brought about by the last administration and their union cronies.

I was in very respect worthy company.

I should note that I am not the greatest speaker, and I do not travel with dueling teleprompters. So this award might well be seen as the greatest speaking fee I should ever expect to see. I guess that is OK, as long as I can keep the pen to the page (so to speak) to entertain and inform.

The video with Eric Rothoff and myself during the acceptance is below the line.

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Justice at last.

By JGillman, Section News
Posted on Tue Mar 01, 2011 at 01:59:23 PM EST
Tags: Mackinac center, Michigan, Unionization, Day care, Sherry Loar, Justice (all tags)

Many home based day care providers have been waiting for this day.

The state of Michigan will stop the illegal `Union Dues' withdrawals from checks to home-based day care providers

`Fantastic news' needs to be coupled with legislative action to prevent similar schemes in the future, says Mackinac Center attorney

A spokesperson for the Michigan Department of Human Services today told the Mackinac Center for Public Policy that on March 18 the department will stop withdrawing so-called "union dues" from subsidy checks to home-based day care providers who supply child care services to low-income families. The Mackinac Center Legal Foundation filed suit against the DHS in 2009 to stop the illegal withdrawals.

The Mackinac Center Legal Foundation assisted provider Sherry Loar in her fight against forced unionization. The new DHS director (and former Michigan Supreme Court Justice)Maura Corrigan has said [paraphrased] "those providers are NOT Employees of the state"

Indeed.

More below...

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