Wish I could have been there...but I don't trust my poor old car with long distances, especially on the coldest day of the year. It would be nice to see a traveling roadshow from the Dems- NOT pay-to-play fundraisers, free events that the whole public can attend. It would be a stark difference from the Republicans, I believe.
Michigan Democrats on Saturday heard from a host of candidates and rallied in favor of raising the minimum wage and defeating an anti-affirmative action ballot proposal.
The mid-February meeting was the earliest state convention Democrats have ever held in an election year.
"We're just trying to give people the information they need to be effective foot soldiers," Michigan Democratic Party Chairman Mark Brewer said of the more than 1,000 Democratic activists at who attended the Lansing Center event.
Both Stabenow and Granholm told the crowd that Republicans in Washington are turning their backs on the auto industry and on making sure workers earn good wages and get the health benefits and pensions they've been promised.
"The middle class is under assault every day by this president and the Republican Congress," Stabenow said. "They don't get that pensions aren't a luxury. People have earned those benefits and they deserve to get them.
"What is happening to Michigan is a wake-up call to the rest of America."
Republicans, meanwhile, put out a release saying Democrats had destroyed a state GOP jobs clock sign showing Michigan was losing a job every 20 minutes. The release added that Republican Party workers were threatened as they stood near the sign outside the center where Democrats were meeting.
Stupid, stupid, stupid. We don't need to encourage the Republican culture of professional victimhood. Good God, they will be whining about this for days.
Laugh at them, point out how they LIE about the numbers, but don't threaten and vandalize. That's their tactic. They are the bullies, not us. Of course, given their propensity for lying, I wonder if this really went down the way they say it did. Somebody probably gave them a dirty look and they went running for their Mommies, cowards that they are.