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253 Days until Election Day

MORNING UPDATE:

Democrats continue to play partisan games with recalls while pitching “civility” to the general public…we didn’t believe them on taxes…and we don’t believe them now. They voted for higher taxes and they are organizing recalls…see House Republican Leader’s Craig DeRoche’s comments below.

The Political, Candidate & Party Assistance teams were on the road again last night on the "Unity Road Show" in Macomb County with Macomb and St. Clair Counties activists attending.

Thanks to Macomb County chair Jim Carabelli and Political Director Stephanie Pazrdo for setting up a great meeting with the Macomb and MRP leadership teams last night. They've got a great team over there with Vice Chair Janice Nearon, state committee member Paul Viar, Commissioner Don Brown, and Candice Miller's team with Karen Czernel and Anthony Lewis. Next stop on Wednesday night: Grand Traverse and the surrounding counties.

MIRS Reports: Sen. Wayne Kuipers (R-Holland) wants state university funding to be linked to enrollment as part of a new higher education funding proposal he rolled out today.

His plan puts all university money into one pool. Money from the pool would be distributed on a per-student basis, with the amount increasing each grade level. Funds for restricted federal programs, private university tuition grants and the Children of Veterans Tuition Grant Program would be exempted from the pool. Interesting???

Vice President Dick Cheney will be visiting Marshall on March 7 to be the keynote speaker at a fundraiser for Congressman Tim Walberg. The doors open at 3:00 p.m. and the event cost $500 per person for general admission or $1000 per person for a special Photo reception with the Vice President. For more information and to rsvp please contact Sandra Baxter at 248-514-6884 or email her at sandrabaxterE@aol.com .

Congressman Pete Hoekstra pens a strong article in National Review titled the House fails to protect America.

For more information on Ralph Nader for President go to his web page.

Thursday, I will be “guest hosting” the Big Show, as Michael Patrick Shiels is gone on his honeymoon! My invited guests will include Newt Gingrich, Karl Rove and others.

You’ll be able to listen live at www.wjimam.com .

Please tune in for the show and more information throughout the week as to where you can hear the show live. We’ll also post it on our web page for your review as we do with all the shows we do.

Michigan Republicans have updated our web page with our own 2.0 version …easier to navigate, more information…and still under construction…so please be patient.

THE REST OF THE STORY:

House Republican Leader Craig DeRoche, R-Novi, yesterday issued a statement after attempts by Michigan Democrats to recall him were rejected by officials for the second time:

"The Democratic Party leaders have failed again to silence Republican legislators who oppose the tax increases created by Governor Granholm and Speaker Dillon. The question of raising taxes is a major policy difference between us, so we Republicans will not back down from our position that these new taxes will kill jobs.

"Citizens expect us to work together to solve Michigan's problems, not to run recall elections against each other. It is time for a change in Lansing when the governor and Democratic leaders are running partisan campaigns against those who opposed tax increases. Instead, they should be working with us to fix the economy and Michigan's broken government.”

At an Oakland County hearing today, officials rejected a second version of the Democratic Party's recall language. The clarity hearing vote was taken by the Oakland County clerk, the probate judge and the county treasurer. DeRoche has been on record as opposing similar recall attempts.

For complete post go to: http://migop.blogs.com/blog/2008/02/articles-of--24.html

Saulius "Saul" Anuzis
Chairman
Michigan Republican Party