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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDear God, Someone In Michigan Please Stop This From Happening!
LANSING Michigan Republicans, in control of all major statewide offices and fresh off an election in which a GOP presidential candidate won Michigan's electoral votes for the first time since 1988, are setting their sights on the only prize that has eluded them in recent years a U.S. Senate seat.
There are no announced candidates to challenge U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow in 2018, but names dropped at Saturday's Michigan Republican Party state convention at the Lansing Center ran the gamut from a congressman to a former state senator to Michigan-born recording artist Kid Rock.
Wes Nakagiri, a Livingston County Tea Party activist who was elected to the party's central committee Friday night, said Kid Rock, who endorsed President Donald Trump, "has name I.D., is an out-of-the-box idea, and would kind of get rid of that stodgy Republican image."
http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2017/02/11/ronmey-mcdaniel-gop-michigan-convention/97785574/
There are no announced candidates to challenge U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow in 2018, but names dropped at Saturday's Michigan Republican Party state convention at the Lansing Center ran the gamut from a congressman to a former state senator to Michigan-born recording artist Kid Rock.
Wes Nakagiri, a Livingston County Tea Party activist who was elected to the party's central committee Friday night, said Kid Rock, who endorsed President Donald Trump, "has name I.D., is an out-of-the-box idea, and would kind of get rid of that stodgy Republican image."
http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2017/02/11/ronmey-mcdaniel-gop-michigan-convention/97785574/
And the commenters are actively blaming the Flint Water Crisis on Stabenow, when it's 100% Rick Snyder's fault! The stupid, just...
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Dear God, Someone In Michigan Please Stop This From Happening! (Original Post)
Initech
Feb 2017
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I am not surprised they blame her, same people will blame her when Ryan takes their
Eliot Rosewater
Feb 2017
#1
Remember when they went ape-shit because Michelle said water was good to drink?
Eliot Rosewater
Feb 2017
#4
And then the psychos would turn around and blame the air problems on the democrats!
Initech
Feb 2017
#11
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)1. I am not surprised they blame her, same people will blame her when Ryan takes their
Medicare and Social Security, and he will, and they will blame liberals
Doesnt matter how many people show up at town halls, the politicians themselves dont believe their base is at those protests.
Be prepared to lose everything.
Initech
(100,075 posts)2. We get blamed for everything.
And I have been saying for a long time that Obama and/or Hillary Clinton could save a baby from a burning building, and the republicans would somehow find a way to blame them for starting the fire.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)4. Remember when they went ape-shit because Michelle said water was good to drink?
Initech
(100,075 posts)5. Don't remember, was that before or after Flint?
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)6. Way before
Initech
(100,075 posts)7. Holy crap, no wonder they worked to destroy water!
If democrats endorsed breathing air, republicans would find a way to increase pollution!
anarch
(6,535 posts)10. yeah, well, they're certainly working on increasing pollution, regardless n/t
Initech
(100,075 posts)11. And then the psychos would turn around and blame the air problems on the democrats!
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)3. That is probably a safe seat.
I live in Detroit and have not heard of any serious candidates willing to run against Debbie.
It is way too early to worry about it now. Plenty of other more pressing matters.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)8. The little shit says celebs should stay out politics, yet
only right wingers can be involved. Such hypocrites.
Debbie is + 15 in approval.
Initech
(100,075 posts)9. Celebs should stay out of politics! Says the party of Trump and Schwarzenegger!