Our Local Correspondents Andrew Cuomo, Matt Gaetz, and the New “Never Resign” School of Politics In recent years, many politicians seem to have realized that remaining in office is often the best path out of a scandal—for their own sake if no one else’s. By Eric Lach The New Yorker April 17, 2021 New York Governor […]
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MICHIGAN TALK NETWORK: The Political Insider #150 — Whitmer Wimpout, Interviews with MIRS Editor Kyle Melinn & Fred Wszolek of Unlock Michigan
OTHER STATES JOIN MICHIGAN IN FIGHTING GOVERNORS’ EXCESSIVE POWERS
Fight Against PA Guv’s Powers Reflects Bipartisan Trend By Nathan Benefield RealClearPolitics.com April 15, 2021 Since last spring, many governors have used the pandemic to assume emergency powers, giving them wide-ranging authority to, among other things, shut down businesses, close schools, and enforce stay-at-home orders. Unfortunately, many abused this authority, wielding unilateral powers while dismissing […]
MAYDAY! MAYDAY! ‘UNLOCK MICHIGAN’ IN DISTRESS
May 1, 2021, is looking less like the start of true spring than the beginning of a chess match that may last for months, if not years. By that date, several events will have occurred that may reshape Michigan election laws and the funding of politics going into the 2022 elections. Within the next month, […]
JOE BIDEN ISN’T WHO HE PROMISED TO BE, AT LEAST FOR NOW
The sneaky radicalism of Joe Biden’s first few months in office Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large April 10, 2021 Joe Biden ran for president on a very simple idea: Government (and the country) works best when people from opposing parties work together. And he cast himself as someone who was uniquely suited to re-stoke […]
MICHIGAN TALK NETWORK: The Political Insider #149 — Border Bongo! Interview with John Quinones of ABC News & “What Would You Do?”
FORMER LEGISLATIVE AIDE BLOWS WHISTLE ON OUTRAGEOUS PRISON INMATE PHONE CHARGES
A well-known, longtime legislative aide, Bruce Timmons, now retired, has just sent this plea to “reporters who cover the state capitol,” a far smaller group than it used to be: “Five weeks ago I alerted most of you to the (to me, nefarious) mis-use of restricted revenues in the State Budget, in particular the inmate […]
SLATE: BIDEN IS WAGING CLASS WARFARE WITHOUT THE WAR
Politics The President’s Passive-Aggressive Leftism. By Ben Mathis-Lilley SLATE April 7, 2021 Joe Biden at a rally for then–Senate candidates Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock in Atlanta on Jan. 4. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images On March 12, President Joe Biden held a press conference with Vice President Kamala Harris, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, […]
CAN DEMOCRATS KEEP THEIR U.S. SENATE MAJORITY IN 2022?
A Senate Majority, If You Can Keep It ANALYSIS By Sean Trende Real Clear Politics April 6, 2021 Scott Applewhite) The Democrats’ twin victories in the Georgia Senate runoffs gave them a tenuous majority. With the upper chamber balanced at 50-50, Democrats’ ability to exert control depends on their ability to hold all of […]
QUINONES TELLS FLINTSTONES TO “NEVER GIVE UP”
From migrant farm work to TV news, John Quiñones speaks at Mott Community College lecture series April 2, 2021 An entrance to Mott Community College in the early hours of the morning on Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2019 in Flint. (Jake May | MLive.com)Jake May | MLive.com By Sergio Montanez Flint Journal/MLive April 2, 2021 […]