An article from the Daily Californian today has some more detail on the lawsuit(s) filed to try and stop the adoption of the anti-racism Proposal 2, which was passed by a 58% to 42% margin last week. We don’t even know what to call the lack of logic detailed in the article, but here...
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Who Paid for Proposal 5? You Did!
We did some reseach on who backed Proposal 5 and, to our complete and utter lack of surprise, the far majority of the money came from the National Education Association, aka, the teachers union. How much? $3.4 million. If you’re a teacher, I hope you rest well knowing that so much of your dues...
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GR Pundit Election Wrap-Up
GR Pundit would like to express contentment with the outcome of the elections in Michigan this year. We have been in favor in a split government, that’s why we weren’t very big fans of a DeVos election. The re-election of Jennifer Granholm will ensure that continued split, with the addition of a Democrat-controlled State...
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End State-Sponsored Racism – Vote YES on Michigan’s Proposal 2
Proposal 2 (the Michigan Civil Rights Iniative), which will be on the ballot next week, will end racist hiring, contracting, and admissions practices in Michigan if it passes. In short, it will end all state-sponsored racism and sexism. Equal means equal, so we’re voting YES on 2!
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Don’t Bankrupt Michigan – Vote NO on Proposal 5
Proposal five, which will be on Michigan’s ballot on Tuesday, is a union-sponsored and funded campaign to dramatically boost funding for teacher pensions. The proposal basically creates a madatory annual increase for school funding, based on the rate of inflation. However, what the proposal’s backers don’t tell you is that the majority of this...
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Granholm Campaign has Jumped the Shark
It’s official, the Granholm campaign has jumped the shark. In their desperation to find one thing that Amway manufactures in China, they’ve found it – tissues. According to the Detroit News, the Chairman of the Michigan Democratic Party, Mark Brewer, says that he is in possession of a packet of facial tissue from Amway,...
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DeVos: Intelligent Design is a “viable alternative theory.”
The pandering has begun in the Michigan gubernatorial race. Dick DeVos, as reported in the Detroit News, has stated that he thinks schools should have the choice of teaching Intelligent Design (creationism) as an alternative to evolution. Simply giving schools the choice, it could be argued, isn’t a bad thing. After all, 99.999% of...
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Time to Repeal SBT
L. Brooks Patterson, the executive of Oakland County, announced during his state of the county speech last month that he was initiating a fundraising drive to get a repeal of the Single Business Tax on the ballot in November. It was announced today that he had raised enough money to begin the drive. The...
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