MI Morning Update: MI Dems Settle Delegate Skirmish - MI Looking More Red Each Day - Sign Domestic Drilling Petition
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155 Days until Election Day
June 2, 2008
MORNING UPDATE:
MICHIGAN DEMOCRATS...get full delegation with half voting rights. A "fair" deal given what happened and a sad end to an entertaining, damaging intra-party squabble. My guess...once Obama officially secures the nomination, he restores 100% of the voting rights, trying to unite their party heading into the fall election.
EVANS & NOVAK ELECTORAL COLLEGE MAP...looking very doable and they say: "Michigan may be McCain's best chance to win a 2004 Blue State."
NEW VIDEO...talking to Americans about how much oil we have that could be drilled for to lower the price of gas and the fact that the Chinese are looking at drilling 50 miles off the Florida coast. Get MAD America...watch the video and sign the petition.
SIGN ONLINE PETITION...DRILL HERE. DRILL NOW. PAY LESS...Newt Gingrich discusses the politician driven energy crisis where Democrats refuse to allow America to rid itself on its dependence on foreign oil and energy. Please sign Newt's petition and help drive this issue to the top of America's agenda. It's time to stand up and fight!
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MICHIGAN DEMOCRATS COMPROMISE:
MICHIGAN adopted a modified version of the Michigan Leadership Plan which:
-Seats all delegates from Michigan pledged and unpledged.
-Each delegate casts half a vote. That goes for pledged delegates and unpledged delegates (super delegates.)
Compromise allocation of delegates:
-Pledged total: 128 delegates casting 64 votes.
-Senator Clinton: 69 delegates casting 34.5 votes.
-Senator Obama: 59 delegates casting 29.5 votes.
-29 unpledged delegates casting 14.5 votes.
-Candidates will have the opportunity to approve new people to fill delegate slots if desired (i.e. re-slate delegates).
TODAY'S TOP STORIES
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Obama keeps distance from Kilpatrick
Kathy Barks Hoffman • Associated Press • June 2, 2008 • From Lansing State Journal
After his preacher problems, Barack Obama doesn't need another association with a charismatic, radioactive public figure. Still, Kwame Kilpatrick, the tarnished mayor of Detroit, is a hard man to avoid completely.
That places the Democratic presidential candidate in a bit of a dilemma when he campaigns in Michigan this week and later in the race.
Obama could use the mayor's enthusiastic support in Detroit, a city of 900,000 where blacks make up more than 80 percent of the city's residents and nearly always vote Democratic.
Obama in Troy Monday
Democratic candidate to make his first south Oakland appearance.
By Charles Crumm
Journal Register News Service
Democratic presidential hopeful and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama holds his first town hall meeting in Oakland County Monday.
The good news for those who want to go is that the event is open to the public.
The hitch is that you need a ticket to get inside.
Tickets are available from the Oakland County Democratic Party, 515 S. Lafayette Ave., Suite C in Royal Oak from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. today.
Kilpatrick banks on charter to save him
'Official misconduct' isn't defined there, he says in fighting bid to oust him
BY ZACHARY GORCHOW • FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER • June 2, 2008
As Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick prepares to fight his removal from office on two fronts, his legal strategy appears to rest largely on what constitutes "official misconduct."
It's a phrase that is cited, but not specifically defined, under state law. Nor does it appear in Detroit's charter. Yet official misconduct is central to the Detroit City Council's efforts to oust the mayor. Likewise, Gov. Jennifer Granholm must find him engaged in it in order to grant the council's request to remove him.
All of which is giving Kilpatrick's lawyers plenty of elbow room to contest efforts to remove him in the wake of the text message scandal. Kilpatrick's efforts last week to veto the Granholm hearings rested almost entirely on his contention that because Detroit's charter lacks the phrase "official misconduct," the charter cannot be used as a basis for the council to go to the governor requesting that she remove him.
Michigan braces for another messy fight over budget, taxes
Lawmakers vow not to raise taxes but battle over program cuts all but certain.
Mark Hornbeck and Charlie Cain / Detroit News Lansing Bureau
LANSING -- It's June in the Michigan capital, so there must be a state budget battle brewing.
Budget talks were supposed to go smoothly this year after the Legislature passed gut-wrenching tax hikes in 2007 to take care of a whopping deficit.
But here we go again.
The fiscal experts say the national economic drop-off, skyrocketing gas prices, declining housing industry, lucrative tax credits and restructuring of the domestic auto industry will sock the struggling state -- leaving the treasury $472 million short of tax revenue projections made just five months ago.
As a result, lawmakers will try to make ends meet as they negotiate a deal over the next several weeks for the budget year that begins Oct. 1.
Editorial: Delegate compromise works for Michigan
Democratic rulemakers work out a fair end to primary dispute
Michigan Democrats got the best they could hope for out of Saturday's meeting of the national party's rules committee. Its delegates will go to the Denver convention in August and be counted.
The compromise worked out during the often boisterous session is fair and mirrors the proposal offered by leading state Democrats. Michigan will give 69 of its delegates to Sen. Hillary Clinton and 59 to Sen. Barack Obama. A similar deal was worked out for the Florida delegation.
For now, those delegates will be able to cast just half a vote at the convention. But state Democrats are confident that their full voting rights will be restored once Obama is confirmed as the nominee.
GOP chief: 'We need every vote'
U.S. Senate race viewed as key to party's resurgence
Gary Emerling THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Monday, June 2, 2008
Virginia Republicans say the winners and losers from last weekend's nominating convention must quickly unite and move ahead together to reach new voters for the party to succeed in the November elections.
"We're not a state anymore where we can just simply depend on Republican votes to win," said Delegate Jeffrey M. Frederick, Prince William Republican, who was named chairman of the state party Saturday. "We need every vote we can get."
North Carolina: Precursor to Victory or Defeat for Obama?
By Steve Mitchell
As political observers are examining national polls, even key state polls, North Carolina may be the precursor to victory or defeat for Barack Obama in November.
On May 6, North Carolina was "Obama country." He won the Democratic primary by almost 15%, beating Hillary Clinton by close to 230,000 votes. Some of the media touted the win as a further example of his crossover appeal in what was a red state in the last two presidential elections.
Two weeks later, a different picture emerged. In a poll conducted by Survey USA just fourteen days after Obama's big win in the Tar Heel state, he trailed GOP candidate John McCain by 8 points. Meanwhile, in the same poll, Clinton led McCain by 6 points. That is a huge 14 point difference between Obama and Clinton's support.
Estimate puts Obama within 47 delegates of victory
Stephen Ohlemacher / Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- Hillary Rodham Clinton won most of the delegates in Puerto Rico's primary Sunday, but Barack Obama crept closer to clinching the Democratic nomination for president.
Clinton won 38 delegates and Obama won 17, according to an Associated Press analysis of election results. All of the Puerto Rico delegates have been allocated.
Obama has a total of 2,071 delegates, leaving him 47 shy of the number needed to clinch the nomination, with two primaries remaining. Clinton has 1,915.5, according to the latest AP tally. Obama also picked up two superdelegates Sunday, which means he has made up most of the ground he lost Saturday when the national party's rules committee voted to reinstate delegates from Michigan and Florida.
Clinton Wins Easily in Puerto Rico
She Holds Out Hope As Obama Nears Delegate Majority
By Anne E. Kornblut
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, June 2, 2008; Page A01
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, June 1 -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) won the Puerto Rico primary comfortably on Sunday, claiming perhaps her last triumph in the race for a Democratic presidential nomination that increasingly appears to be out of her reach.
In a telephone interview with The Washington Post after her victory by a 2 to 1 ratio over Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.), Clinton stressed that she will press forward through the final contests of the primary season on Tuesday, brushed aside the idea that she was searching for an exit strategy, and said she will continue to weigh both her immediate- and longer-term options in the race.
Asked whether she will challenge a Democratic National Committee ruling on Saturday awarding Obama some disputed Michigan delegates even though his name did not appear on the state's ballot, Clinton said she had not yet decided. In her victory speech Sunday afternoon, Clinton again claimed triumph in the overall popular vote in the primaries and held out hope that she would still see a reversal of fortune.
Clinton Puts Up Popular Vote Ad
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) took to the airwaves in South Dakota and Montana today with an ad that pushes the idea that she is winning the popular vote in the race against Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.)
"Some say there isn't a single reason for Hillary to be the Democratic nominee," says the ad's narrator. "They're right. There are over 17 million of them."
Let's watch the ad in full:
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
Not really, after all, this is the party of Kwame and Jennifer. They've given us corruption on a grand scale, even for Detroit. And a state government incapable of counting, much less balancing a budget. But, that's ok, because Jennifer was the second-smartest woman in the world, according to the Detroit Free Press. Until she decided to back THE smartest woman, insuring that Michigan would endure the one state recession for four more years, if it wasn't for Obama's penchant for foot-in-mouth disease, and hangin with unsavory people. And, in Jennifer's case, thank heaven for term limits. However, Levin will probably retire after he's re-elected so Jennifer can be appointed Senator by a democrat governor.
outraged! But, if 50%+1 of your fellow travelers vote for these morons, I guess you get what you get. As for me, I'd be working like crazy to vote these bums out post-haste. No more would I tolerate their incompetence. I sure wouldn't be complacent.
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Just a typical, small town, British-American girl...
Where the people keep bending over for the Democratic Party and saying thank you, may I have another, kind of like we do as conservatives on a national scale, but I digress. Debbie Do nothing and Jennifer Granholm have screwed the state for so long that these people have no idea what it means not to be screwed. Add in the union presence all through the state and you've got a state ripe for the GOP this summer, if McCain is smart enough to make it a referendum against Granholm and Kwame, and not about his lack of knowledge on the economy. But we shall see of course, pardon my cynicism, it's early and Anthony spent the night throwing up from eating something.
The trouble with our friend John McCain isn't that he's ignorant, but that he knows so much that isn't so.
If McCain is smart, he will send Mitt Romney to Michigan to hold town halls all over that state. And Mitt would talk about nothing but how to bring good wage earning jobs back to Michigan.
If McCain decides to forego a woman on his ticket, I think Mitt is his next best pick. And I think with Mitt on his ticket, MI will be red this November.
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Just a typical, small town, British-American girl...
Mostly, because this would mean McCain A) would be offering something to conservatives, and B) would be doing a complete about face on his misunderstanding of the economy and Al Gore's church of Global Warming. As such, I expect our Scoop Jackson Democratic candidate to pick Huckabee and fully embrace his inner populist and kill my desire to turn Michigan red. If he picks Romney, I will write diary upon diary on why I love the McCain ticket while I eat crow.
The trouble with our friend John McCain isn't that he's ignorant, but that he knows so much that isn't so.
about someone shooting Barack, that sealed his fate.
No way, no how Johnny Mac picks that time-bomb.
And, you are going to love McCain/????? because they are a d*mn sight better than Barack/?????.
Trust me, I know these things. :>)
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Just a typical, small town, British-American girl...
this result? Republican or democrat?
Seriously. How do you rate giving the opposing candidate 4 delegates earned by someone else?
And, how do you give "uncommited" delegates to one single person? Surely at least some of those delegates are John Edwards' people. Michigan was ripe ground for his message.
And, who the h*ll does Obama think he is making a deal to seat all delgates once he has secured the nomination?
Is nobody in Michigan troubled that your state is a pawn in Obama's big chess game?
I'd be OUTRAGED!
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Just a typical, small town, British-American girl...