Health Care Ad: Granholm vs. DeVos

Ad contrasts Granholm health care plan
with DeVos’ lack of a plan

DeVos has no plan for making health care more accessible or affordable to Michigan citizens. DeVos’ only plan for health care is to “get a job.” Governor Jennifer M. Granholm proposed the revolutionary Michigan First Health Care Plan that will, for the first time, provide access to affordable health care for all citizens in Michigan. Negotiations with the federal government are on track to implement the program in April, 2007.

“The 900,000 Michigan citizens who live in households with a job and without health care find Dick DeVos’ approach towards health care unacceptable,” said Michigan Democratic Party Chair Mark Brewer. “Having a plan to provide health care to Michigan’s people like Governor Granholm’s MI First Health Care Plan is a large step towards growing and keeping businesses here. Economists agree that health care is a key component to creating jobs, not the other way around.”

Watch the ad here.

Cross-posted from NBF

Amos Williams For MI Attorney General

“I’m a Democrat. I’m a Liberal”

“And I'm one of those damn trial lawyers everyone hates - until you need one.”

Amos Williams is a lawyer and decorated Vietnam Veteran that proudly served in the Detroit Police Department for several decades. He is running for Attorney General because he wants to be in the forefront of advocating for people determined to take back their government, and ensure that it remains a government in which the interest of the people is paramount.

Michigan can not afford to keep the current Republican Attorney General in office! Mike Cox has not protected consumers or voters. Instead, he joined the 2004 Republican efforts to intimidate minority voters, refused to believe that retailers were price gouging gas after Hurricane Katrina, and failed to collect more than 99% of unpaid child support.

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MI Voter Protection Program

Michigan Democrats Announce 2006 Voter Protection Program

Program is in response to the Republican Party’s plan to suppress the minority vote

The Michigan Democratic Party (MDP) announced their 2006 Voter Protection Program, a program that will deploy over one thousand trained lawyers and volunteers at polling locations statewide to defend the rights of Michigan voters on Election Day. The MDP has set up a toll-free telephone help line (888) DEM-VOTE (888-336-8683) that voters can call on Election Day if they have any questions about their voting rights or if they want to find their polling location.

The MDP’s program is in response to the Michigan Republican Party’s (MRP) attempts in previous elections to suppress the minority vote by sending paid poll challengers to urban areas to harass African American and other minority voters. In 2004, the Detroit Free Press reported that Detroit voters said that Republican poll watchers were illegally asking them for photo identification and had physically assaulted voters and poll workers. The Associated Press reported that Detroit election officials complained that Republican challengers were telling voters in line whether or not they could vote. [...]

In 2004, Republicans revealed part of their Election Day strategy when then GOP State Representative John Pappageorge said that the GOP would fare poorly in this year's elections if it failed to "suppress the Detroit vote." The MDP also received reports that Michigan Attorney Mike Cox was part of Republican efforts in 2004 to intimidate minority voters by giving hands-on training to Republican challengers.

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Granholm vs. DeVos

Debate # 3 - Fact Checks:

Business Equipment Tax: The truth about the business equipment tax is that it should be reduced, but local governments cannot afford to have it eliminated. Dick DeVos refuses to say how he would pay for his business tax cut schemes.

Education: DeVos has a long history of fighting for vouchers that would take money out of public education.

CAN Trash: Governor Granholm supports legislation to discourage importation of Canadian trash, but it has been held up by DeVos' Republican colleagues in the Michigan Legislature.

Single Business Tax: Michigan currently has the 13th lowest business taxes in the country, and Governor Granholm has signed 72 business tax cuts since taking office. A recent study by the non-partisan Upjohn Institute found that changing the SBT would have very little impact, if any, on Michigan’s economic growth. Governor Granholm doesn’t want to give handouts to big corporations at the expense of everyday people, and unlike DeVos, she still the only candidate who has proposed a fair plan to replace the SBT. DeVos tells us to wait until after he’s elected to tell us his plan.

Health Care: Contrary to what Dick DeVos claims, the Governor has restored and extended health care coverage and prescription drug discounts to nearly 300,000 Michigan citizens.

Jobs Plan: The Governor's MI Opportunity Partnership connects those seeking work with jobs that are available right now and helps others get the skills they need to land good paying jobs. Since its launch, the Partnership has already helped 117,000 people get jobs.

Unfair Trade: President Bush's refusal to enforce trade agreements with China and others is ravaging Michigan’s manufacturing economy. President Bush has not found time to meet with the CEO’s of the Big Three automakers to discuss trade and rising health care costs, despite repeated requests.

Dick DeVos' support for President Bush and unfair free trade agreements is what got Michigan into this mess in the first place. *

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Everyday until Election Day, the MDP will list another reason why voters should not vote for Dick DeVos.

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Watch Ad: See Dick run

Watch Ad: Bush’s clone

10/17/06: Watch the new ad:

* The Michigan Democratic Party unveiled a new television ad to highlight this point, titled “Office”. The ad, which begins airing today, shows how Dick DeVos has supported NAFTA, invested $200 million dollars in China and reveals that DeVos incorporated Amway in Bermuda. Read more

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Women praise Granholm on CHOICE

Jennifer Granholm for Governor

cross-posted from NBF

GOP for Granholm?

MARQUETTE — Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm is getting support for her re-election campaign from some unlikely people — Republicans.

Gil Ziegler, chairman of “Republicans for Granholm,” is in the Upper Peninsula gathering support from Republicans who feel their party is moving too far to the right. “It wasn’t an easy decision but sometimes you have to check your partisanship at the door and become a citizen,” Ziegler said of his decision to go against his party and support the governor over Republican challenger Dick DeVos.

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