Next, as reported in the Macomb Daily, the county legal department is worried about current county commissioners and some county candidates using the county seal on their literature.  Again, this is a county facing a $33 Million deficit.  Should they be spending time on putting together a logo task-force?  Whatever lawyer they have hired to police the use of a logo is not a lawyer that they need in the county government.

Then, there is the Macomb County's subsidized nursing home facility.  For years, the county has been partially funding the facility and each year as there has been a deficit, the county subsidy has been questioned.  But, each year, the county continued to spending without looking for how to reduce the spending at the facility.  This year, now that the county has actually talked about closing the facility due to the budget shortfall, the facility is now looking at ways to save money.  Why does it take the threat of closure of any publicly funding facility to get these facilities to curb their costs?

Then, there is the public embarrassment known as the Harrison Township Board of Trustees.  Each week, the 4 lamb duck members (Ron Garvin, Sharon Eineman, Jim Ulinski, and Mike Rice) of this board have been trying to prove that can do a worse job than they did the week before.  This week's target of their fury was the St. Hubert's Catholic Church.  Last weekend, the church had their annual festival.  As a part of raising money for the church and the charities it would support, each year they charge political candidates $50 to hang a sign in the main tent, which happens at many other churches as well.

But, for these 4 trustees, that was a big no-no.  So, did they go after the candidates?  No.  They went after the church.  At their Board of Trustee meeting last Monday, these 4 voted to charge a $600 fee against the church for trying to use political candidates to raise money for charity.  Fortunately, to avoid the church from having to pay the fee, St. Hubert parishioner and State Representative candidate Bryan Brandenburg paid the fee.  Finally, after a week of this, on Friday, some sanity returned when the Board waived the fee again.  Fortunately for Harrison Township, they only have 7 more weeks left of this Board.

That was the week in Macomb County politics that you may not have heard of.