Oh, this is rich Last week a judge in Indiana ruled that the state’s so-called “right to work” law is unconstitutional. According to federal law, unions must cover everyone at a workplace but Indiana law prohibits delivery of services “without just compensation”. Since Indiana’s right to work law allows workers to benefit from union collective bargaining but does NOT require […]

An open letter to the soon-to-be-former governor of Michigan Yo Mr. Snyder: Your first campaign for governor was impressively banal. In the heat of a Tea Party year, you promised competence and nerdiness. What you’ve provided is an extremism cloaked by a nearly unprecedented lack of charisma. You’ve been a consistent rubber stamp for the far right as you raised […]

Twelve years ago I was living in St. Louis working for the St. Louis Post Dispatch. I was single with two dogs and a parrot, and spent my free time going to bars and listening to music and watching sporting events with family and friends. I hadn’t even met Chris at that point. Now, 12 years later I work for […]

While anti-Obamacare crusaders stoop increasingly lower, the law’s supporters are making sure people know the facts. I don’t think I really need to tell you just how ridiculous the failed attempts to repeal, defund or sabotage Obamacare are. After all, it’s been all over the news. And those who want to defeat the law will stop at nothing, from lying […]

Got hypocrisy? Tim Walberg is a member of the “Tea Party Caucus” in Congress and has declared publicly that he “was a tea partier before there was a tea party”. When it comes to wasting taxpayer money by fighting implementation of the Affordable Care Act through obstruction and a laughable number of repeal attempts, you won’t find anyone more determined […]

Advocates for healthcare reform will stand up to the vocal super-minority. Tuesday should be an interesting day on Capitol Hill. Ahead of an Exempt America from Obamacare Rally scheduled for noon ET on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol, a group of U.S. Senate and House leaders will join Obamacare advocates at a press conference to denounce Republican and […]

Game ON! These days, Anne and I feel like we’re at the center of the bullseye for a number of nationally-watched races. First we have Gretchen Driskell in the 52nd District who is the only Democrat in Michigan holding a seat in a majority Republican state House district. Then, of course, is the epic fight to reclaim the governor’s mansion […]

shame·less (adjective) – characterized by or showing a lack of shame I’m used to seeing Republicans shamelessly exploiting tragedies to advance their political agendas and to raise money but it was still a shock when I learned that Terri Lynn Land, the former Republican Secretary of State from Michigan, is attempting to raise money off of the tragic events unfolding […]

Enough with the reindeer games, corporate America needs a reliable vote Rep. Kerry Bentivolio (R-MI) is exactly the kind of Republican politician that Republican donors should be afraid of. As a high-school teacher, Bentivolio told his students that his goal was to make each one of them cry at least once. As a reindeer rancher, he dressed as Santa and […]

A new nonpartisan study shows insurance premiums will be “lower than expected.” Republicans will try to find a counterargument to this, but it won’t be easy. A study conducted by the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) examined individual policy prices in the states that have released comprehensive figures on their Obamacare insurance marketplaces. That’s 17 states so far, plus the […]

Just when you thought Michigan’s 11th Congressional District had the worst possible Representative… It seems even Representative Kerry Bentivolio’s own party isn’t a big fan of his work. It’s clear plenty of folks in Michigan’s 11th Congressional District aren’t. So it looks like there are going to be some reindeer games in the 2014 primary election. Yesterday, David Trott announced […]