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Tag: Michigan's Republican National Committeeman (page 2)

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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A Message To Our Legislators - Beware False Choices

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.

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Are You Freaking Kidding Me?

By Kevin Rex Heine, Section News
Posted on Thu Apr 05, 2012 at 12:36:15 AM EST
Tags: "DELE-GATE", Saul Anuzis, Michigan's Republican National Committeeman, MIGOP May 2012 State Convention, Holly Hughes, MIGOP Credentials Committee, Bobby Schostak, Sharon Wise, Eric Doster, Mike Cox, Bill Runco, backroom shenanigans, Michigan Leaders Lining Up For Romney, integrity argument, disingenuous hypocrisy, memory holes, Nick DeLeeuw, John Yob (all tags)

Just under a month ago, when the Michigan "Dele-Gate" Fiasco was still something of a big deal, one of the founding mothers of the Michigan tea party movement decided to use my current place of employment as an excuse-of-convenience to challenge my credibility, and by extension my integrity. Because I do not permit such a challenge to go unanswered, I responded directly to her (though it never seems to have cleared the moderator's flag), as well as within Jason's post the following day (as one of the comments):

I don't know what any of y'all do or don't know about those in the sea services (Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard), but if you're going to challenge the integrity of such a person, then you'd better have proof-in-hand that the challenge is valid . . . otherwise it gets unpleasant in a hurry.

That, by the way, applies to veterans of those services as well. As Nick DeLeeuw pointed out a few years ago, different "go" words apply in different cultures. I'm a retired sailor, so there're plenty of tags you can legitimately hang on me, many will be accurate, and not all will be kind. But to accuse a Sailor, Marine, or even a Coastie of being either a "thief" or a "liar" . . .