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Obama visits new battery plant in Michigan, $100 Million in MI taxpayer giveaways, Liberal Republican in race for Stupaks seat.

Thursday, July 15, 2010

President Obama will be in Holland, MI today to break ground on a new lithium ion battery plant. LG Chem, a South Korean company was wooed to Michigan with Federal Stimulus dollars and $100 million in cash subsidies.

This is part of Jennifer Granholm’s “going from rust to green initiative” and the plant is supposed to be the supplier for the Chevy Volt, and the Ford Focus.

The company has promised to supply up to 400 jobs in the Holland area, but admitted that they would not be coming to Michigan if not for the tax breaks and Fed dollars.

Liberal Republican, Senator Jason Allen is running against conservative Dr. Dan Benishek in Michigan’s First District, that is held by Bart Stupak.
Allen voted for the battery initiative to add over $100 million in Michigan taxpayer dollars in cash subsidies to the federal stimulus money to bring LG Chem to Holland. Holland is in the Western Lower Peninisula, and Allen is running in the vast tundra of the Northern tip of the mitt and the Upper Peninsula. No word if Allen will be there for the groundbreaking with Obama and Granholm, but he should be. He thoroughly believes in government creating jobs.

The massive amounts of ink used to distribute the golden ticket for certain companies should have been used to continuously and unabashedly challenge this administration to cut taxes to all business. It is clear that the current Democrat Party is interested in business only when it suits their own lofty notions that certain companies can “save the planet,” it is clear also, that the Republican establishment in Michigan is not leading, but is led around by whatever the Democrats happen to be doing.

You can help Benishek defeat Allen in Michigan’s First District by joining the VOTER BOMB. There is 20 days before the primary. Don’t let a Liberal Republican win the nomination!

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Help a Conservative win Stupak’s Seat!

Thursday, July 15, 2010

The Benishek Campaign will launch a new ad across media outlets in Michigan’s First District with your help.

Dan Benishek said, “Senator Allen’s sponsorship of a bill that would have involuntarily unionized more than 40,000 independent contractors is very troubling. His bill would have been a giveaway of $6 million of state taxpayer money to one of the nation’s most militant unions. And the fact that the SEIU agreed with Senator Allen’s record in the state Senate enough to give him $2,000 tells Republicans in the First District everything they need to know about Senator Allen’s record.”

Let’s look at the timeline here:
-SB 731 was introduced by Allen on August 5th, 2009.

-Allen caught heck for it by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy on December 15th, 2009.

-Every concerned person paying attention in Michigan flogged him for it from December until now.

-House Bill 6195 (Authorize unionization of home personal assistance providers ) is introduced by Rep. Bert Johnson (D) to empower the state to unionize 42,000 individuals hired by elderly or disabled Medicaid recipients to provide personal care services in their homes, on May 19th, 2010. HB 6195 was introduced to unionize the workers outright, after Allen brought up the measure last year.

-Then Jason Allen finally inserted the language in his own SB 731 to deny that unionization on May 27th, 2010. A full 5 and half months after solid conservatives raised questions.

So, let’s see, 5 and a half months after catching heck from small-government conservatives, and a week after the Democrats decided to join the bandwagon behind Allen, he finally got the change made.

Wouldn’t that put Allen on the list of reacting to Democrats quicker than conservatives of his own party?

The Allen supporters maintain that the bill doesn’t say what the Mackinac Center for Public Policy says it does, and Common Sense in Government says it does.

This bill would create the statutory authorization for the shell government “employer” used to extract union dues from the personal care providers. Lawmakers know all about this, and most are trying to fool the public if they play innocent about it.

Don’t let this Liberal Republican win the Michigan primary! Washington DC needs to be up-ended, not fortified with more liberalism!

Join the VOTER BOMB!

Get this TV AD to voters across the district!

Help the Benishek campaign win the primary in 20 days!!

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Contemporary Conservative Legend Erick Erickson Endorses Benishek for Congress

Monday, July 12, 2010

The fight the people of this nation are in to change the make up of Congress and install Conservative Leadership, is crucial to this nation’s survival. That’s why I am so excited that another conservative icon has endorsed Dan Benishek for Congress.

Erick Erickson, the Editor-In-Chief of Redstate.com, is highly regarded as an influential activist and a plain-spoken conservative who is able to articulate in writing the thoughts of so many concerned citizens.

On RedState’s front page this morning:

Dan Benishek is in a fight against everything we oppose. His “Republican” opponent has sold himself out to the unions and they love him. Between freedom and tyranny, Dan’s opponent has routinely sided with the tyranny of unions that want to impose their ways of not doing business on you and me.

This is a Hoffman v. Scozzafava race and it is within a Republican Primary.

We need to support Dan Benishek. The alternative would be too much.

Yes, in fact it would be devastating. The alternative is Jason Allen, who is right now benefiting from the serge of some tea party influences for another candidate. The tea party organizers have decided to endorse candidates, and in many instances that has hurt Stillings, the candidate in question. But the fact remains that the votes for the tea party endorsed candidate would be a vote for Allen, a liberal Republican with ties to every big government attempt to attract business to Michigan in a most egregious pattern of crony capitalism.

A friend and fellow Michigan Conservative Activist puts things this way:

A HARD NOSED ASSESSMENT OF JASON ALLEN’S CHANCES OF WINNING IN NOVEMBER
* With Mr. Stupak off to greener pastures, it’s important for Michigan and the country that the 1st Cong. District not fall back into the hands of Nancy Pelosi and the Democrat party. Of the two most likely Republican candidates, only Dan Benishek can win in November. It would be disastrous if Jason Allen were to win on August 3rd. He has too many unrepairable negatives going forward into the fall campaign, making him an easy target for Democrat McDowell. It will be a needless philosophical setback for the tea party-related and anti-establishment enthusiasm that has finally and appropriately grabbed the anti-spending, anti-Obama health care, pro-individual liberty, pro-limited government heart and soul of this nation.
* The key to any Republican win is for the candidate to do extremely well in the U.P. or to carry it outright. Benishek can do this but Allen can’t. Here’s why:
* Mr. Allen possesses a wide array of equal opportunity negatives sufficient to trouble Republican and Democrat alike — negatives the Democrats will push at even a faster pace after the primary.
* Democrats (and Republicans) are already turned off by Allen’s crassly opportunistic and, some say, underhanded move into a rural district in which he does not live and with which he has no deep rooted sociological connection. “Carpetbagger,” is not a good title to be toting around during a critical campaign.
* Any number of UP Democrats and former lukewarm Stupak supporters are poised to be turned off by their sense that Allen is a “typical rich Republican” who not only does not come from Ishpeming, Manistique or Iron Mountain, but rather from the “Grosse Pointe of the North,” Traverse City. Allen will also be seen by many as being inherently incapable of understanding the way everyday UP residents look at the world.
* With each passing election cycle the increasingly liberal Mr. Allen reveals himself to small government Republicans as being a Republican in name only. He regularly votes for or introduces legislation on behalf of those offering him the most “help” as it relates to his career ambitions. The highly respected Mackinac Center in Midland, Michigan views Allen as routinely pandering to special interests – whomever they may be. See: http://www.mackinac.org/12398 See also: http://www.mackinac.org/12357 See also: http://www.rightmichigan.com/story/2010/4/23/23928/9309
* Jason Allen will not excite the enthusiasm of those potential Republican campaign volunteers such as those currently working for Benishek…those tired of business as usual in Lansing and Washington. Such folks might or might not vote for Allen in November. They will certainly not volunteer to help his fall campaign.
* In 2009 Mr. Allen accepted a $2,000 campaign contribution from that infamous architect of ACORN, the Service Employees International Union. This gift arrived suspiciously close to the time frame in which the SEIU asked Allen to introduce a bill (SB 731) that would have unionized some 42,000 bewildered Michigan home health care workers. Once the flak started rolling in over such a crass betrayal of free market principles, Allen scrambled around to get the bill changed, but the damage to his reputation as a Republican was already done. It’s important that you see www.mackinac.org/11539 for validation.
* Jason Allen has made three fatal mistakes. His under the radar move into a rural district for which he has no natural interest. He is a long time career professional whose true political/spiritual loyalty is to Lansing and himself, not to the likes of Baraga County or Gladstone, Michigan. Third, the unconscionable deal with the SEIU which revealed for all time the kind of person he is behind the conservative mask.
* The degree of ease with which Dan Benishek will beat Democrat Gary McDowell in November is the same degree of ease with which McDowell and the Stupak machine will beat Jason Allen. And, we’ll be stuck with another Pelosi Democrat. We dare not allow this to happen.

I agree, if Jason Allen wins the primary, he will not win the general, if for no other reason, that he will lose all grassroots support, and he will be running as a “rich Republican” in a conservative district.

My interview with Dan Benishek can be read here.

Dan Benishek is the only logical choice in this critical election.

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Conservative Icon Phyllis Schlafly Endorses Dan Benishek For Congress

Friday, July 2, 2010

Since the debut of her book, A Choice Not An Echo, Phyllis Schlafly has been reconized as a leader of the conservative movement.  Yesterday, her grassroots volunteer network that consists of 80,000 members nationwide, endorsed Dan Benishek for Congress.

Schlafly is founder and president of Eagle Forum, a grassroots volunteer network that participates in the making of public policy reflecting conservative values.

President Ronald Reagan said of Schlafly,

“Eagle Forum has set a high standard of volunteer participation in the political and legislative process. . . . You’ve been out front on so many of the most important issues of our time. . . . Your work is an example to all those who would struggle for an America that is prosperous and free. . . . Our nation needs the kind of dedicated individual volunteer service you and Eagle Forum have demonstrated over the last 20 years.“

From a press release:

Mrs. Schlafly said, “Dr. Benishek had the courage to stand up and say ‘Enough is Enough’ when he saw the way the liberal majority was growing government and spending taxpayer dollars“.

Colleen Holmes, Executive Director of Eagle Forum followed up saying: “One of the greatest results we’re seeing with the Tea Parties and the massive grassroots outpouring against the current Congress’ agenda, is that candidates like Dan Benishek, who are committed to their faith, family and communties, are stepping up, making the sacrifice and doing the work necessary to run for Congress.”
Dr. Benishek stated: “I am honored to have the endorsement of the Eagle Forum, a great organization promoting traditional values and limited government, both of which are important parts of my platform. Like the Eagle Forum I believe that the majority of Americans believe in a conservative philosophy and that the November elections will prove as much. I look forward to being one of those who can help take their message to the capitol.”

Dr. Dan Benishek is a surgeon from Iron River, Michigan and a Republican candidate for Congress in Michigan’s 1st Congressional District.

You can learn more about Dr. Dan Benishek at Dan Benishek For Congress.

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Docs4PatientCare Makes First Ever Endorsement Benishek

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Docs4PatientCare began as a grassroots movement led by a prominent physician in Atlanta, Georgia, Dr. Hal Scherz,who felt he must act in response to the AMA’s support of Obamacare.


Attempting to enact his big-government health care scheme, President Obama and his supporters frequently claimed that a “majority” of doctors supported his health-care plans. When the American Medical Association – which had opposed HillaryCare – signed onto Obama’s plan last year, the organization seemed to make the President’s case. Most people assumed that the AMA represented most of the doctors in the country. But in fact, the AMA represents less than 20 percent of all physicians in the United States. And yet as the organization’s leadership moved more to the left, it held a near monopoly on media attention on issues pertaining to public health. No longer.


On Saturday June 26th, 2010, Docs4PatientCare made it’s first ever endorsement. As a politically neutral group who advocate for responsible healthcare reform, they held a press conference in Marquette, MI at the Landmark Inn to endorse Dr. Dan Benishek for Congress.

Dr. Dan Benishek, a surgeon from Crystal Falls, MI, is running for the United States House of Representatives in Michigan’s First District. The seat, now held by retiring Representative Bart Stupak, comprises all of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and approximately the northern third of the Lower Peninsula.

Dr. Richard Armstrong, a general surgeon from Newberry, MI, delivered the endorsement in a speech that highlighted Dan’s abilities as a surgeon and the man he would replace in Congress.

Dr. Armstrong remarked,”It is unfortunate that the Congressman currently representing Michigan’s 1st District has played such an important role in the passage of the misguided legislation that is already starting to ruin the doctor-patient relationship. Obamacare is causing insurance premiums to rise and is leading to the inevitable rationing of care,” reported the Marquette Mining Journal.“It is only fitting that Dr. Benishek, physician who understands the importance of de-funding, repealing and replacing this legislation take this seat back to provide the people the representation they deserve.”

“Through advertising, grassroots activities and even direct financial support, thousands of doctors from all across the district and all across the nation will be making sure their voices are heard now that Dr. Benishek’s will be heard in the next United States Congress,” Armstrong said.

Docs4PatientCare has a main objective they share with Dr. Dan Benishek, to de-fund, repeal, and replace the health care reform law put forward by Obama’s administration.

Dr. Dan Benishek has been endorsed by fellow doctors who are current legislators, Representative Charles Boustany Jr., M.D. of Louisiana’s 7th congressional district, and Representative Michael Burgess, M.D. of the 26th district of Texas.

This endorsement from people who work in the medical field everyday certainly helps Dr. Dan Benishek in his quest to become the Representative of Michigan’s First District.

For a more clear understanding of what the law will do, Jill Vecchio, MD, created this slideshow, and it can be found on the Docs4PatientCare website.

Healthcare Reform Talk 6 6 2010
View more presentations from jqvd4pc.
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Tuesday, June 8, 2010

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Republican Lawmaker Attacks the First Amendment.

Sunday, May 30, 2010

The Republican Party of Michigan had better put a stop to this before the Democrats take up the idea. Bruce Patterson (R) Canton introduced bill 1323, (Establish “Michigan Registered Reporter” registration and screening criteria) on May 11th, 2010.

Shut up, Americans!

This is the type of thing that really ticks off the tea party people. The idea that our lawmakers are supposed to protect us from ourselves. NO! You lawmakers are supposed to protect our rights and our borders, pay the bills on legitimate spending set forth in the Constitution AND NO MORE!

What are we doing here?  Did I wake up in China?  I suppose the moderates in our party thought this was a grand idea.

According to Fox News, the law would:

… regulate reporters much like the state does with hairdressers, auto mechanics and plumbers.

According to the bill, reporters must provide the licensing board proof of:

–”Good moral character” and demonstrate they have industry “ethics standards acceptable to the board.”

–Possession of a degree in journalism or other degree substantially equivalent.

–Not less than 3 years experience as a reporter or any other relevant background information.

–Awards or recognition related to being a reporter.

–Three or more writing samples.

Reporters will also have to pay an application and registration fee.

That’s crazy, but this is even crazier:

Patterson, who also practices constitutional law, says that the general public is being overwhelmed by an increasing number of media outlets–traditional, online and citizen generated–and an even greater amount misinformation.

He practices constitutional law hey?  Um, hey Brucie, I’m just a seamstress, but I know damn well that Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.  Would you like a pocket Constitution, I have three extra from the Heritage Foundation.

The senator said that he feels that there’s no way to tell who’s a legitimate journalist and who’s just rewriting other reporters’ reporting and twisting facts.

“What’s the definition of a reporter? I haven’t been able to find out? What’s a reporter? What’s a journalist?” Patterson said. “I thought you had to have a degree in journalism but apparently not. I could retire and be a journalist.”

Yes, see we are all stupid, and we can’t think for ourselves, so Bruce wants us to be able to click on the reporters name and find out every thing about them so we can then make a judgement on whether they have sourced material. Do we do that on a national level?  Does Keith Olbermann sound like he came out of journalism school?

Obviously, if I cite a source and take quotes from the source, it’s sourced.  It is then up to the reader to click the sources ie. the highlighted words and phrases that take them to the original news source.

But my point in writing about all of this is that Bruce Patterson is a Republican.  The Republican party is supposed to be on the side of limited government and adherence to our founding principles.

Bruce Patterson probably should retire and become a journalist, he is term-limited (Thank God) and practicing Constitutional Law would be way over his head.

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Forced Unionization Idea Sounds Good to Democrats

Saturday, May 29, 2010

I wrote about how Senator Jason Allen (R) of the 37th district introduced a bill that forces unionization of home health care workers, then he inserted language to stop that from happening.  But wait, not so fast, the idea sounds great to the Democrats, who introduced a bill on May 19th, that, at the time, was Allen’s call to glory.

Let’s check the timeline here:

SB 731 was introduced by Allen on August 5th, 2009.

Allen caught heck for it by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy on December 15th, 2009.

Every concerned person paying attention in Michigan flogged him for it from December until now.

House Bill 6195 (Authorize unionization of home personal assistance providers ) is introduced by Rep. Bert Johnson (D) to empower the state to unionize 42,000 individuals hired by elderly or disabled Medicaid recipients to provide personal care services in their homes, on May 19th, 2010.

Then Jason Allen finally inserted the language in his own SB 731 to deny that unionization on May 27th, 2010.

So, let’s see, 5 and a half months after catching heck from small-government conservatives, and a week after the Democrats decided to join the bandwagon behind Allen, he finally got the change made.

Would that put Allen on the list of reacting to Democrats quicker than conservatives of his own party?

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Local Reaction to the Granholm Denial of the Coal Plant.

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Nobody is happy here in Presque Isle County, Michigan.

The story of the Rogers City Coal Plant.

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Benishek will repeal, Jason will overhaul

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

From a news release May 20th, 2010:

BENISHEK PLEDGES TO REPEAL OBAMACARE
Iron River, MI – Dr. Benishek pledged this week to sponsor legislation to repeal the Obamacare Bill that was forced through Congress by the Democrats earlier this year, with Bart Stupak delivering the pivotal support necessary for passage. He signed the Club for Growth pledge, aboard a bus while finishing the last stretch of his “Enough if Enough” tour of Michigan’s 1st Congressional District.

“The so called “Health Care Reform Bill passed by Congress earlier was not the will of the people and it will not increase the quality of care, in fact it will lower it,” said Dr. Benishek, “It’s good for neither a patient’s health nor a patient’s wallet.”

The “Repeal It Pledge” has been signed by lawmakers, candidates and citizens from across the nation. As of today, State Senator Jason Allen has not signed the pledge.

Dr. Dan Benishek is a general surgeon who is running for the vacated seat in the First District of Michigan, previously held by Bart Stupak.

Jason Allen, State Senator from Traverse City, who moved to the First District to run for Congress has a different take on the so-called healthcare bill.

Before anyone starts yelling at me for dogging Jason Allen, I want to point out the differences in philosophy, that is all.

I’ve spoken with Dan numerous times, and he is a principled conservative.  Even when Obama has said, “They’re actually going to run on a platform of repeal in November…Go for it,” Dan is holding firm.  Why?

Because he knows what it will do to healthcare and the country.

Now, when asked recently what he would do about the healthcare plan, Jason Allen said the legislation needed to be overhauled and repealed.

“I’m looking for a positive discussion on how to get government spending in check, create jobs, and overhaul and repeal the Obama health care plan.”

Overhauled and repealed?  Why would you overhaul something, in an effort presumably, to make it less objectionable, then repeal it?

Perhaps he meant that upon taking office, his first move would be to work within the system offering legislation to cushion the blow of this nasty take over of our freedoms.

But, that is the wrong approach.

The proper approach to tyranny is conservatism., a philosophy, the only philosophy that can thwart this path we are on to despotism.  Working within the system, offering bits of legislation, taking nibbles at the Obamacare monstrosity is exactly what we do not need.

No, we don’t need someone who will happily work with the Democrats and come to an agreement.

Dan said it right in my Exclusive Interview with Dan Benishek:

I asked Dan if he plans on repealing the bill.

“That’s my goal.”

What’s the first step?

“As I said, we need to elect people to congress who will vote to repeal it, then try to defund the bill as best as we can.”

But the people need to vote, if we can’t get conservatives elected, and a whole lot of them, this can’t be changed.

My question for Jason Allen is, if you can’t stand up to Jennifer Granholm, how can you possibly stand up to Obama?

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