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    Ignoring The Rabbit Trail


    By Kevin Rex Heine, Section News
    Posted on Tue Sep 04, 2012 at 12:28:24 AM EST
    Tags: Michigan Supreme Court, Jane Markey, 2012 vacancy nomination, Bob Young, Mary Beth Kelly, Wayne County Circuit Court, Colleen O'Brien, Oakland County Circuit Court, trust but verify . . . always, "Trucker" Randy Bishop, Scott Greenlee, rabbit trails, red herrings, chasing shadows and smoke, incomplete puzzles, Michigan Freedom To Work, iCaucus Michigan (all tags)

    A favorite political campaign strategy is to keep one's opponent off balance.  Keep them on the defensive, keep them reacting, get them chasing down rabbit trails and responding to red herrings.  Anything at all to have your opponent operating in "reactive mode" instead of "proactive mode."  In a tight race, getting into an opponent's head, or into the head of her campaign team, can throw them off their game, and perhaps enable an easier victory than otherwise would happen (perhaps even snatching victory from the apparent jaws of defeat).


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    The Opposition Already Going Personal


    By Kevin Rex Heine, Section News
    Posted on Tue Aug 28, 2012 at 06:36:14 PM EST
    Tags: Michigan Supreme Court, 2012 vacancy nomination, Jane Markey, Court of Appeals, trust but verify . . . always, Justice Michael F. Cavanagh, Chief Justice Robert P. Young jr, Richard Bandstra, Bill Schuette, Judge Elizabeth Gleicher, Dan Pero, Scott Greenlee, anonymous "GOP activists", Reagan's Eleventh Commandment, mudslinging attacks (all tags)

    Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher once told the London Daily Telegraph:

    "I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left."

    By this measure, an e-mail that's been circulating to the convention delegation for about three days now must have Judge Jane Markey on cloud nine.  Two weeks before convention, and her opponent has already effectively admitted that she's going to have to go personal to beat her.  If that's the case, then Markey's already got this one in the bag.


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    A Message To Our Legislators - Beware False Choices

    To Accomplish Replacement . . . And Why


    By Kevin Rex Heine, Section News
    Posted on Fri Mar 30, 2012 at 06:15:46 PM EST
    Tags: "DELE-GATE", MIGOP Credentials Committee, Bobby Schostak, Sharon Wise, Saul Anuzis, Holly Hughes, Eric Doster, Mike Cox, Bill Runco, MIGOP May 2012 State Convention, Keith Butler, Scott Greenlee, Betsy DeVos, Ron Weiser, backroom shenanigans, Michigan Leaders Lining Up For Romney, integrity argument, disingenuous hypocrisy, memory holes, Dave Agema, Mike Bishop, Bill Cooper, Victor Diaz, Jason Gillman, Andrew "Rocky" Raczkowski, Tom Stillings, Stacy Swimp, Harold Voorhees, Jerry Zandstra (all tags)

    And no, I'm not talking about Randy Richardville, though I agree that he needs to go, too.  Nope, I'm referring to a different scoundrel here.

    Last Sunday, on the Dump Saul Anuzis facebook page, I wrote:

    "While all of this various and sundry political talk is very fascinating, let's please keep our primary objective in mind . . . that of dumping Saul Anuzis as Michigan's RNC National Committeeman. We do need to start recruiting a potential challenger, and develop a delegate strategy (using the 2010 pool) to accumulate the votes necessary to dump him."

    The conversation threads, both on the page and in the group, were starting to get a tad afield of the original purpose, which is to focus the efforts to replace Saulius Anuzis as Michigan's Republican National Committeeman.  Best to stay focused here, as we only have about seven weeks left to work with.  Grab a pot of coffee, and let's go below the fold.


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    A Tale Of Two Memos


    By Kevin Rex Heine, Section News
    Posted on Fri Mar 02, 2012 at 08:52:17 AM EST
    Tags: "DELE-GATE", Bobby Schostak, Sharon Wise, Saul Anuzis, Holly Hughes, Eric Doster, Mike Cox, Bill Runco, MIGOP Credentials Committee, backroom shenanigans, disingenuous hypocrisy, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, primary process, delegate math, ex post facto rules changes, memory holes, conflicting memorandums, Scott Greenlee (all tags)

    I grew up in rural northeast Michigan (Iosco County to be precise).  I can tell you as a certainty gained from hard experience that I know manure when I smell it.  So when I say that the stench arising from the sequence of high-profile republican primary screwups smells like a bathtub-sized crock of elephant exhaust . . . well, I've got a usable reference point.


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