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    Sleep With Dogs You End Up With Fleas


    By Corinthian Scales, Section News
    Posted on Tue Aug 28, 2012 at 01:42:58 PM EST
    Tags: MiGOP, Bobby Schostak, backroom shenanigans, House Speaker Jase Bolger, Roy Schmidt, Matt Mojzak, 76th State House, Republicans, Party Change, Michigan Democratic Party, Mark Brewer, Tea Party, TEA Party wannabe, scandal, charges, arrested, convicted, slap on the wrist, Ruth Johnson, fraud, election integrity, Bill Schuette (all tags)

    via The Detroit News

    House Speaker Jase Bolger personally appealed Monday to Ingham County Circuit Court judges to reject a request to empanel a one-judge grand jury to investigate a foiled election-rigging scheme in a Kent County legislative district.

    Senate Democratic Leader Gretchen Whitmer and state party chairman Mark Brewer petitioned the court last week to launch its own probe into Bolger and state Rep. Roy Schmidt's attempt earlier this year to plant a fake Democrat in the 76th District and allow Schmidt to become a Republican with a patsy opponent.

    Kent County Prosecutor Bill Forsyth determined in July that no crime was committed after Schmidt's faux opponent, a 22-year-old friend of his son and nephew, dropped out of the race days after filing in May. But Democrats have called Forsyth's investigation into question after the Republican prosecutor acknowledged cancelling warrants to search Bolger's phone records and Schmidt's phone and email records.

    A Michigan State Police detective said he had probable cause that Bolger and Schmidt may have caused subornation of perjury by knowingly procuring Matthew Mojzak to commit perjury by falsely claiming to be a 76th District resident for at least 30 days prior to the May 15 filing date.

    Rest here

    Dropping the State Po-po investigation sure do create one of those "urban legend" nightmares for the MI-GOP.

    (2 comments) Comments >>

    (U//FOUO) Synopsis of Dangerous Individuals.


    By KG One, Section News
    Posted on Mon Jul 16, 2012 at 08:14:59 PM EST
    Tags: Kerry Bentivolio, Nancy Cassis, L. Brooks Patterson, 11th District Republican Star Chamber, Write-in Campaign, August 2012 Primary, "Special" election, Oakland County, Wayne County, Republican kakistocracy, THIS is their choice???, Tea Party, Get to work you lazy bums, Seriously Mrs. Cassis...LYING doesn't suit you (or your campaign), I'm getting this Congressional seat whether you Tea Party types like it or not!, Rule No. 5, Guess who is using it?, Nancy Cassis' Campaign Spokesman David Mroz...that's who!!! (all tags)

    (U//FOUO) - The Michigan Republican Party Fusion Center.

    The following information is being disseminated via The Michigan Republican Party Fusion Center. The information contained within should not to be shared with any outside parties or individuals.

    ...

    (2 comments, 936 words in story) Full Story

    A Message To Our Legislators - Beware False Choices

    Nancy Cassis to Tea Party: "Drop Dead!"


    By KG One, Section News
    Posted on Sat Jul 14, 2012 at 07:00:00 AM EST
    Tags: Kerry Bentivolio, Nancy Cassis, L. Brooks Patterson, 11th District Republican Star Chamber, Write-in Campaign, August 2012 Primary, "Special" election, Oakland County, Wayne County, Republican kakistocracy, THIS is their choice???, Tea Party, Get to work you lazy bums, Seriously Mrs. Cassis...LYING doesn't suit you (or your campaign), I'm getting this Congressional seat whether you Tea Party types like it or not! (all tags)

    The star-chamber backed candidate in the CD-11 race made some very interesting comments yesterday on OTR regarding her opponent's supporters, her opponent and a rather interesting hint at her future campaign strategy after she loses the primary and "special election".

    {Continued after the fold}

    (2 comments, 995 words in story) Full Story

    Yellow & Black


    By JGillman, Section News
    Posted on Mon Jul 02, 2012 at 02:47:21 PM EST
    Tags: PermaTea, July 3, Yellow & Black, Gadsden, Tea Party, Peaceful Protest (all tags)

    Tomorrow is the big day.

    OK, maybe not as big as I had wanted, (having been pretty busy) but its the start of something I hope will add a cohesive element to the Tea Party movement and community. Its the first day of the PermaTea project.  July 3rd, 2012.  A day where we show others around us where we stand, not by argument, nor confrontation, but by simply displaying the colors of the Gadsden.

    Wear your colors tomorrow.  And then again in a month.

    Join us on Facebook.

    Pass it around.

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    Send In The Clowns


    By Corinthian Scales, Section News
    Posted on Sat Jun 02, 2012 at 09:05:40 AM EST
    Tags: Thaddeus McCotter, Fred Upton's Republican Main Street Partnership Member, Auto Bailout, Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act, HR 3936 Union Pension Bailout, Union Shill, Bogus Fiscal Conservative, Pompous Ass, Indistinguishable Center-Left, Book Tours on PAC money, 2012 distraction, Congress, Republican Primary, CD11, Incumbent Mentality, Loren Bennet, Dick Posthumus, MI-GOP Establishment, Rocky Raczkowski, Bill Runco, Bobby Schostak, Sharon Wise, Establishment, Responsibility, Signatures, Ruth Johnson, Bill Schuette, The Basics, Former AG Mike Cox, Tea Party, Kerry Bentivolio (all tags)

    No joke.  Dick Posthumus' decade old Lt. gov running mate just announced he's going write-in.

    Yannow, with all the light that is being shined on the incumbent mentality within the Party establishment, they really are starting to make the AGW zealots and Earth Day kooks look a lot less insane by comparison.

    This is all the more reason why I'd vote for Kerry Bentivolio.

    Send Kerry a few jingle$ if you can, folks.  The Party is stacking the deck against him.

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    It's either fraud or massive incompetence and either one should be fatal running for Congress


    By Corinthian Scales, Section News
    Posted on Thu May 31, 2012 at 10:46:53 AM EST
    Tags: Thaddeus McCotter, Fred Upton's Republican Main Street Partnership Member, Auto Bailout, Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act, HR 3936 Union Pension Bailout, Union Shill, Bogus Fiscal Conservative, Pompous Ass, Indistinguishable Center-Left, Book Tours on PAC money, 2012 distraction, Congress, Republican Primary, CD11, Rocky Raczkowski, Bill Runco, Bobby Schostak, Sharon Wise, Establishment, Responsibility, Signatures, Ruth Johnson, Bill Schuette, The Basics, Former AG Mike Cox, Tea Party, Kerry Bentivolio (all tags)

    Attaboy, Mike.  That's the "rules matter" Jarhead that folk like and respect.

    via The Detroit News

    "No one has heard of anything so over the top before," echoed former Republican Attorney General Mike Cox. He added: "To have really overt massive potential fraud is really very unusual."

    Secretary of State Ruth Johnson's office had turned over preliminary findings to Attorney General Bill Schuette's office, which won't comment. But Cox said investigators have tools working in their favor -- a stack of paper evidence, names and signatures of circulators and the power of an investigative subpoena to compel circulators to talk.

    "Ruth and Bill are going to have to go to where the facts go, whether that leads them to (McCotter's staff) or to Thad," said Cox, who said he won't run as a write-in for the McCotter seat. He said his family and the McCotters are close, but now he is for "anybody but Thad."

    ...

    But for nominating petition fraud, the sanctions spelled out in Michigan's election law are misdemeanors.

    Someone who signs another's name on a petition, makes a false statement, or signs a petition as a circulator who is not faces up to a $500 fine and 93 days in jail.

    Additionally, if the candidate or a petition circulator knew of such petition fraud and didn't report it to authorities, he is guilty of misdemeanor punishable by up to a $500 fine and one year imprisonment, under the law.

    Rest here

    Isn't that just lovely?  Bottom line: We have a smarmy, career DC politico doofus from his specially redrawn District-11 who is now wasting our tax dollars on a misdemeanor witch-hunt that he is responsible for creating.

    Thanks, Thad.

    (10 comments) Comments >>

    You Really Messed Up McCotter


    By JGillman, Section News
    Posted on Tue May 29, 2012 at 09:51:26 PM EST
    Tags: Thaddeus McCotter, Congress, Republican Primary, CD11, Kerry Bentivolio, Rocky Raczkowski, Bill Runco, Establishment, Tea Party, Responsibility, Signatures, The Basics (all tags)

    While we enjoy a primary like no other, at least you could have gotten yourself on the ballot properly.

    Damn shame to throw away such a remarkable career, and then like chasing your last dollar bill over the rails of a bridge you take the leap. An Angel named Clarence isn't going to help as all the world becomes a little different Thad.  

    So much for dignity.

    Its an amazing thing how someone can get so smug that he allows the simplest part of his campaign to slip out from under him.  Signatures.  A thousand legitimate freaking signatures.  And then to say "the buck stops here", yet pretend that he is too loved to accept the situation as it is. In "You clean up your own mess" McCotter says:

    "Having promised people I would seek another term in the United States Congress and, thereby, give them the chance to vote for or against me, the only way to clean up my mess is to run a write-in campaign for the Republican nomination for Michigan's 11th Congressional District.

    This I'm doing."

    Is that how he cleans up a mess?

    Folks, it ain't spilt TEA here.  That pot is brewing and hot, and quite full yet.  Its the drunk on power embarrassment factor on full display.  Grapes all over the floor, stains and all.

    More below the fold. ~

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    CD-11 Republican Candidate Kerry Bentivolio Goes Unchallenged?


    By Corinthian Scales, Section News
    Posted on Fri May 25, 2012 at 11:22:13 PM EST
    Tags: Thad McCotter, Fred Upton's Republican Main Street Partnership Member, Auto Bailout, Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act, HR 3936 Union Pension Bailout, Union Shill, Bogus Fiscal Conservative, Pompous Ass, Indistinguishable Center-Left, Book Tours on PAC money, 2012 distraction, TEA Party, Kerry Bentivolio, CD-11 (all tags)

    What an awesome development.  Kerry Bentivolio (previously iCaucus endorsed), just may be the only Republican running in CD-11.  Presidential primary washout and Romney water carrier, Thesaurus McModerate, appears to not have collected the necessary 1,000 valid signatures to be on August primary ballot.

    The shocking development could keep the five-term Republican U.S. House member from running again if he cannot convince the Michigan Secretary of State's office that he collected more than 1,000 valid signatures.

    Whooot!  My fingers are crossed.

    Please, feel free to visit Mr. Kerry Bentivolio's campaign website by clicking, here.

    (4 comments) Comments >>

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