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Alito tapped for Supreme Court!

Michigan State College Republican Vice Chair, Craig Burgers on the war with Iraq:

State News Article

Bouchard announces he will run for U.S Senate… “Bishop” Keith Butler responds.

Here are pieces of the email that the Bishop sent out in response to Bouchards announcement:

“I am not surprised that he (Bouchard) has responded to promises made to him by lobbyists and power brokers in D.C. – I am sure they are full of flattering words and have made interesting promises to him.”

“I have not spent years being entertained or raising money from Lansing and Washington, D.C. lobbyists and powerbrokers. It is no surprise that they prefer someone they are comfortable with.”

“The Washington interests looked at Michael and saw someone with a proven track record of working with, not against the big money interests.

If Mr Butler is concerned that Bouchard has more money than him, he should consider tithing more often.

The race of the Sheriff, the Bishop, and the Minister may make some people long for the career politician.

Shortly after Bushs announcement of Harriet Miers, Pat Buchanan said that the nomination would be withdrawn:

Among the most outspoken detractors was former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan, who, on NBC television’s ‘Meet the Press’ program, said Bush should name someone else to fill the vacancy on the US high court. ‘I would like to see the nomination withdrawn. If I were in the Senate today I would vote against it,’ Buchanan said. ‘My guess is, she will not be confirmed, and she will be withdrawn.’

As usual Mr Buchanan is right on target.

Zandstra Gaining Momentum In latest Strategic Vision Poll

Michigan’s top political pollster Steve Mitchell states
“Zandstra Will Win”
Grand Rapids, Mich. — David E. Johnson, CEO and Co-Founder of Strategic Vision commenting on his most recent poll, “Jerry Zandstra is gaining momentum against Keith Butler”.
“Zandstra would be a strong viable candidate against Debbie Stabenow—She is in definite trouble.”

1. If the primary for United States Senator were held today, whom would you vote for Keith Butler or Jerry Zandstra?

Keith Butler 28%
Jerry Zandstra 21%
Undecided 51%
Margin of sampling error 3%

Previous Poll – Same Questions

Keith Butler 27%
Jerry Zandstra 18%
Undecided 55%
Margin of sampling error 3%

Michigan’s top political pollster, Steve Mitchell of Mitchell Research and Communications states “This is a wide open race—and now that Zandstra is showing a strong campaign team-He is going to win.”

This further corroborates the building of momentum for Zandstra.

MFCR “Chair” Dan Carlson has been taking credit for getting CRs to Mackinac Island. Most people know that he had nothing to do with it. The campaigns being directly in contact with clubs and CRs seeking to volunteer is how arrangements for Mackinac were made.

Dan appears to be using the Stabenow tactic of doing nothing so that no one will be angry enough to vote against him we he runs for MFCR Chair. Sources have said that Dan has told them that he will be running for reelection. Forgive me if I omit “re” in reelection.

Several qualified candidates have expressed interest in running for Chair and no amount of threat can stop them.

The CRs would be well served to throw out the power usurper next year.

Bouchard is running for U.S Senate. We think this will hurt the “Bishops” chances.

More info coming soon.

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L to R: Andrew Wendt (MIGOP Ethnic Chair) Don Brewster (State Committee) Phil Hardy (State Rep Candidate) Me

In the mail bag; an email from my 4th grade teacher:

JUMBO JOE,

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GOD, COUNTRY, NOTRE DAME . . .

“Bishop” Keith Butler in the Oakland Press

To be sure, the Senate is full of wealthy members, and Butler himself doesn’t apologize for his wealth. He said being asked to speak to groups around the country proves his record of success.

“Being a success is what the people of Michigan are looking for,” he said. “People who are not a success are the kind of people who shouldn’t be leading the United States of America.”

http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=8131

“He (Keith Butler) has founded a major religious enterprise, the Word of Faith International Christian Center Church, which he and his family still run. My earlier reference to him as a poor preacher isn’t literally true; he pulls down more than $1 million a year in salary and other forms of compensation from the church.”

“Well, so much for vows of poverty. That isn’t to say that Butler isn’t an intelligent and accomplished man; he clearly is. He is handsome and an excellent speaker. But why is the state Republican Party, which has nine congressmen and controls both houses of the Legislature, uniting happily behind someone whose political and governmental credentials are so flimsy?”

“Because he is black, that’s why.”

This is a hilarious article about “Bishop” Keith Butler

http://starbulletin.com/2001/06/02/features/adamski.html

Tithing is way toprosperity, pastor says”You don’t have to worry about the economy. There will be no recession at Word of Life,” the speaker assured the Kakaako crowd.
It was the second of three “Financial Destiny” sessions by Bishop Keith Butler, founder of a 17,000-member Detroit church, a lesson in the modern school of prosperity theology.
Many of the mostly 20- and 30-something crowd at Word of Life Christian Center noted Butler’s formulas for prosperity. But it wasn’t tips on the stock market. It was biblical passages referring to abundance, treasure … and tithing.
WORD OF LIFECHRISTIAN CENTERMessage: “You will be on top, the people at Word of Life will have no lack … because you hear God, and you sow.”
Participation: The audience put notebooks aside and brought out checkbooks. Many hands, raised as they sang the praise chorus, waved checks and bills in the air.
From Psalm 50: “The beasts are mine, the world is mine and the fullness thereof is mine,” and, said the preacher, “that includes the money in your pocket. God has placed his prized possessions in our hands. He’s saying, ‘I give you the ability to get it.’ He is making us stewards of it.
“I’ve got a Mercedes, my wife has a Mercedes, my daughter has a Mercedes. It all belongs to God and he’s letting me use it,” said Butler. “There is nothing wrong with having a large house and car, with taking trips around the world … as long as you do what God wants you to with it.”
Butler compared his Word of Faith International Christian Center on a 110-acre site “that is called the jewel of the city, a most beautiful place,” with the warehouselike surroundings at 544 Queen St. where Word of Life members gather during a multimillion-dollar building project to expand it.
He referred them to the Book of Malachi: “See if I do not open the floodgates of heaven and pour out an abundant blessing for you. I shall forbid the locust to destroy the produce of your soil. All the nations will call you blessed for you will be a land of delights.” And he quoted Psalm 75: “God is judging the upright, bringing some down and raising others.”
The key to God-given prosperity, he said, is that the believer share his wealth with the church. “God said bring tithes to the storehouse,” said Butler. After his wife persuaded him to put their last nest egg into the collection basket, he received financial aid that continued through his seminary training.
He promised the same “spiritual umbrella” to the Oahu crowd. “Tithing is a prerequisite, the ultimate way to show whether God can trust you on this earth.”
From the Gospel of Mark, he quoted Jesus’ command to “Go ye into the world.” Butler said “for this particular church, to take the gospel into the world requires money.”
Butler did not quote the passage in which Jesus told his followers “It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”

This is what the Bible says about wealth:

17As Jesus started on his way, a man ran up to him and fell on his knees before him. “Good teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
18″Why do you call me good?” Jesus answered. “No one is good—except God alone. 19You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, do not defraud, honor your father and mother.’[d]“
20″Teacher,” he declared, “all these I have kept since I was a boy.”
21Jesus looked at him and loved him. “One thing you lack,” he said. “Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”
22At this the man’s face fell. He went away sad, because he had great wealth.
23Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!”
24The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said again, “Children, how hard it is[e] to enter the kingdom of God! 25It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
26The disciples were even more amazed, and said to each other, “Who then can be saved?”
27Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God.”
28Peter said to him, “We have left everything to follow you!”
29″I tell you the truth,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel 30will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age (homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—and with them, persecutions) and in the age to come, eternal life. 31But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”

Below is an email sent out to the MSU Students for Life mail list in which the Chair condemns the actions of another prolife group (Missionaries to the Preborn) for showing graphic photos of aboriton.

Pro-lifers,
I want to retract the support that the earlier email gave to the group that was on campus today. I didn’t send out the email, but I did authorize it. At the time it was sent out, I was under the impression that the group was only passing out literature, which was alright. I did not know they were coming to campus today until I got off the bus and was handed literature. Only after the email was sent did I see the public displays behind Wells, among other places.

I would like to personally apologize, because not only do I strongly disagree with the display of those pictures, but the group itself does not participate in those kinds of protests. If we truly believe that abortion is so terrible, then we should not be so eager to graphicly bring back the surviving victims of abortion to the worst moment in their lives by surprise. The pictures are true, but have a time and a place, neither of which were today on campus. Again, I apologize, but beware that other groups have an equal right to self-_expression and just because a group is pro-life and protesting on campus does *not* mean that they necessarily have our support, or even our sympathies.
KenKen CurellPresident, MSU Students for LifeMSUStudentsforLife@yahoo.comwww.msu.edu/~msusfl

MY RESPONSE: Sent Oct 7th
Ken,

I find your response to the Missionaries to the Preborn as disheartening. I don’t know what you do to end abortion, but that organization is the real thing. They go to the abortion mills and they save babies. To condemn them is to condemn the movement. This battle will not be won by moderation. While some in the movement sit around at ice cream socials talking about how much they hate abortion their are people out their in the streets doing the heavy lifting. Their contribution is invaluable and should not be condemned by people with like minds.

Since 1973 over 40 million babies have perished. Some clinics even do partial birth abortions every day in this country.

Should the atrocities of the Nazis not have been shown because they are too graphic? Too disturbing? Well abortion is disturbing, and most Americans don’t know what is going on down the road in a little building called “Planned Parenthood.” The public needs to be educated as to the evils of abortion.

For the sake of the cause, I hope that you have not discredited yourself too much with your organization.

Sincerely,

Joe Sylvester

LINK TO STATE NEWS ARTICLE ABOUT THIS EVENT

http://ccofal.org/alabama/entry.phtml

I have been privileged to work with Harriet Miers in her capacity as White House Counsel. President Bush’s excellent nominee is a strong candidate who shares your values and ideals, and one who will properly interpret the Constitution and not legislate from the bench. She is bright, thoughtful, and a consummate professional.

We also know that the opposition – People For the American Way, NARAL: Pro-Choice America, N.O.W., and others – is well funded and will not go down without an even MORE tremendous fight this time around.
They have already lost one pivotal battle for the Supreme Court. They DO NOT want to lose another. Their most critical issues – like protecting the abortion industry – are on the line!

As head of the Texas Bar Association, Harriet Miers attempted to reverse the pro-abortion position of the American Bar Association – returning it to its former position of neutrality.

Our Washington, D.C., office is already working diligently to ensure that Harriet Miers receives speedy consideration by the Senate Judiciary Committee and a full up-or-down vote and confirmation by the entire Senate. We are calling on your Senators to reject the partisan political rhetoric and focus on the judicial philosophy of this conservative mainstream nominee.

Skubick’s Capitol: Campaigning 101: Stick to the story
One of the first things they teach you in candidate school is to stay on message. The second thing is: When the other side whacks you, you whack back right away.
Apparently Jennifer Granholm and Dick DeVos dozed off in that class.

Let’s take Mr. DeVos first.
He had a chance to brunt a broadside the governor recently fired at the House GOP leadership but Team DeVos was AWOL – on purpose.
The governor blasted the Repubs for shuffling off to Mackinac Island for a political confab instead of staying in this town to pass her jobs retention package.
That was at 11:30 in the morning which gave the DeVos rapid response squad more than enough time to get their take on the story into day one of the story.
Noon. No response.
2 p.m. They know about the story but don’t peddle their side.
9 p.m. All the newspapers went to bed for the next day’s edition with nothing from the man who seeks to replace her.
Turns out they didn’t want to respond even though most of the Capitol press corps was on the island with DeVos. In fairness, one scribe from Grand Rapids did inquire but that was it.
Sure she was attacking the Legislature and not DeVos but here was a chance for him to say, “If I’m your governor, I will work with the Legislature, not berate it.”
But a DeVos insider reveals, “We are not going to react to everything she says.”
The DeVos boys are in their Alfred E. Neumann “What, me Worry?” mode claiming they will get engaged with the governor next summer.
Now to the governor who can never be accused of being” Jennifer One Note.” One day she’s berating the GOP. Before that, she was calling for the extradition of some Florida crook. And prior to that, she was parading around on the Big Mac signing an agreement on who runs the bridge.
Jennifer M. Granholm has been beating the “We need more jobs” drum consistently; however, she is no George W. Bush who spent seven weeks on the Social Security story and nothing else.
Pollster Ed Sarpolus believes the myriad of messages is one reason her polling numbers have gone South.
Exhibit A is the brilliant move on the Friday before Labor Day when el governor announced she was jawboning the head of Marathon Oil to tear down those gas prices which hovered around $3.39 a gallon. Within hours the price amazingly dipped under three bucks.
Surely the guv stood in front of the $2.99 a gallon sign taking credit for saving you the money.
Not exactly. She was at the 150th anniversary of the Soo Locks.
So did they regroup and do the photo op on the Monday after Labor Day? Nope. But, in fairness, they did chat about it on the morning talk radio circuit where Katrina was the main topic.
The fact is, the public has to be force fed a steady diet of the same story before they get it. The governor is serving so many different meals, she’s the one getting indigestion from the polls because voters don’t hear any of it.
Maybe she and Mr. D. should sign up for the remedial campaign course.

The House Republican Caucus is hiring someone to do graphic art/ web design.

http://house.michigan.gov/job_graphicartist_webdesigner.asp

Come and Protest Senator Berneros baby killing and gun confiscating ass….

Bravo Bernero!
Italian Dinner Night

Come join Virg Bernero
for an authentic Italian
family dinner event.
(live Italian music)

To be held on
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
UAW Hall 602
2510 W. Michigan Ave.
(West of BOC Plant)

By Melinda Henneberger
Newsweek
Updated: 12:40 p.m. ET Oct. 3, 2005

Oct. 3, 2005 – Well, now we know: Roe v. Wade is unlikely to be overturned any time soon. It’s no accident that White House counsel Harriet Miers, the president’s choice to succeed Sandra Day O’Connor on the Supreme Court, has no judicial experience. That way, Bush can feign surprise when, to the chagrin of all the voters he won over on the abortion issue alone, social conservatives are ignored once again. Who knew?

Miers, of course, is the president’s former personal attorney. Before Bush brought her to Washington from Dallas, she was a hard-working corporate lawyer, known for her discretion. She’s considered a staunch Bush loyalist, but not an ideologue. Her views on abortion are obscure. (And do those with a strong pro-life stand ever keep it to themselves? No.)

Among pro-lifers, I have long held the minority view that Bush never had the slightest intention of packing the Supreme Court with justices who would seek to overturn the 1973 decision legalizing abortion. Karl Rove would throw himself in front of a train before he let that happen.So where did I get my inside intel on this?

There have been several not-so-subtle signals from Bush himself. When asked, during his first campaign, whether he thought the decision should be overturned, he said the country was not ready.At a news conference in Iowa in 2000, he was asked whether he would counsel a friend or relative who had been raped to have an abortion. He answered, “It would be up to her.”That same year, Ari Fleischer, his press secretary at the time, said this to clarify his views on the issue: “There are several actions he thinks we can take and we should take and he will seek to take that can help make abortion more rare in America.” Oh.

Then there are the statements from the women in his life. The president’s mother and former First Lady, Barbara Bush, said this on banning abortion on ABC’s This Week in 1999: “I don’t think it should be a national platform. There’s nothing a president can do about it, anyway.”First Lady Laura Bush went even further. When asked on NBC’s Today show in 2001 whether she thought Roe should be overturned, she said, “No, I don’t think it should be overturned.” Could she have been any clearer?

All the president’s talk about a “culture of life” might even have been sincere up to a point, of course; doesn’t everybody think they’re for a culture of life?

And it certainly did the trick for him. Many people I know—most of them pro-life Catholics who oppose the war and much of the rest of Bush’s domestic agenda—felt obligated to vote for the president on this one issue. So will social conservatives now admit they’ve been had? Probably not. And will Democrats ever get wise to the way Republicans, instead of imposing self-defeating litmus tests, manage to have it both ways on this issue? Even less likely.

When I think of the whole abortion debate as played out on Capitol Hill, I flash back to a moment several years ago when I was covering a vote on the ban on the procedure known as partial-birth abortion. There were dueling press conferences, of course, both of them featuring babies who looked terribly uncomfortable as props. At one point, I thought two Democratic women lawmakers were going to come to blows over who got to push one of these poor children around in a carriage for the benefit of the TV cameras. (In the end, they both did the pushing, in footage that looked appropriately ridiculous.)

The whole spectacle was so off-putting that I probably should have called child services. And it was so revealing, too, of course—of the fact that actual children have been lost in the interminable fight over theoretical ones.Good could still come of recognizing the reality that Roe is not going to be overturned—if both sides would only channel all the energy they have so long poured into fighting each other into actually preventing unwanted pregnancies and caring for unwanted children. Plan B, anyone?

© 2005 Newsweek, Inc.