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117 Days until Election Day

July 10, 2008

MORNING UPDATE:

McCAIN IN MICHIGAN TODAY...as he rolls out his plans and vision for America and specifically talks about how he wants to fix our economy.

OBAMA OFFERS MORE OF THE SAME...GRANHOLM-OMICS...which put Michigan in a single state recession for the last 6 years. Obama's economic policies are almost identical to those that Granholm has implemented here in Michigan.  America can't afford the risk!

NASCAR FANS FOR McCAIN... Still, Jimmie Johnson thinks the core fan base will back McCain over Sen. Barack Obama. "I have to think McCain. I think our core fan base being strong Republicans like they are, that's going to be the first choice. I also think his credits in history and what he's done for our country, certainly for our country, a lot of those things will be fully noticed by our fan base," says Johnson.

OBAMA...CHICAGO TIMES REPORTS... "Obama may have a higher standard to meet in promise-keeping, in large part because he has sold himself as a new kind of political leader, one who pledged to be more honest and less calculating.
 
During the primary campaign, he often ran left of Sen. Hillary Clinton, a tactic that helped him win over liberals, boost his fundraising, and ultimately secure his party's nomination.
 
Now facing Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona in a general election, Obama has been criticized by some for moderating some of his views in an effort to attract independent voters."

Politics as usual...Obama will do and/or say anything to get elected.

SNEAK ATTACK ON THE CONSTITION...the Grand Rapids Press says "the proposal is chock full of changes that voters need time to study and digest. Those changes shouldn't be packed in a proposal that was drawn up by a small cadre of partisan politicians and put on the ballot using professional signature gatherers, with scant public exposure...Whether the various individual amendments have merit is secondary to the width and breadth they span and the all-or-nothing proposition the initiative embodies. The changes come as a package deal that gives voters no chance to weigh each issue separately."

 

 

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John McCain in town today

July 10, 2008

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., touched down at Metro Airport on Wednesday evening and will speak at noon today at an invitation-only gathering of autoworkers and undecided voters in Belleville. The presumptive Republican nominee is traveling to economically troubled states to discuss his agenda.

McCain to talk small business in Belleville

Detroit News Staff

BELLEVILLE -- Republican presidential candidate John McCain arrived at Metro Airport last night and will meet today in Belleville with whom the McCain camp called undecided voters and auto industry employees.

The noon town hall meeting, whose focus is on small business policy, is at Bayloff Stamped Products, an auto supplier. No tickets remain. Bayloff, according to its Web site, employs about 100 workers at its Belleville plant.

McCain last visited Michigan on May 7. Democrat Barack Obama has campaigned here twice since clinching the nomination.

 

Mich. joins pact for Great Lakes

Deal to outlaw water diversion has now been signed by all 8 states that border lakes.
John Flesher / Associated Press

TRAVERSE CITY -- A compact designed to prevent remote regions or countries from tapping into the Great Lakes was approved Wednesday by the last of the eight states that surround one of the world's largest sources of fresh water.

Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm signed legislation approving the compact during a ceremony Wednesday at Oval Beach in the Lake Michigan town of Saugatuck. A day earlier, Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell announced he had signed a ratification bill.

"This is a defining moment in Michigan history," Granholm said. "We must do our part to ensure that our Great Lakes are protected and preserved for generations to come. This legislation fulfills that promise."

 

See our database: Census reports fewer people in Michigan cities

Out-migration, buyouts at root
BY EVA DOU and KRISTI TANNER • FREE PRESS SPECIAL WRITERS • July 10, 2008

Detroit and many other Michigan cities are continuing to bleed residents, according to the latest population estimates released today by the U.S. Census Bureau.

In fact, many Michigan cities with populations over 100,000 saw population drops in 2007 over the previous years.

Detroit, the state's largest city, lost 28,000 residents, or 3% of its population, from 2000 to 2007, the census reported. Other cities with big losses included: Westland (-6.3%), Livonia (-6.8%), Dearborn (-8.9%) and Highland Park (-12.3%).

 

Job losses, lagging economy blamed for Michigan's bleeding population

Mike Wilkinson / The Detroit News

Roughly half the communities in Metro Detroit have lost population since 2000, according to estimates to be released by the U.S. Census Bureau today.

Those that have gained population have seen their growth slow substantially as job losses and a stagnant economy have sent many people heading for other states.

Chesterfield Township has seen its population grow by nearly a fifth since 2000, adding an estimated 7,200 people. But that number grew by a minuscule 24 over the last year, according to Census estimates.

Worthy to appeal to state Supreme Court in try to get visiting judge for mayor

BY M.L. ELRICK • FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER • July 10, 2008

After failing four times to bar Detroit's 36th District Court judges from presiding over Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's criminal case, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy is turning to the state Supreme Court.

Worthy has argued at the district, circuit and appellate court levels that all of the judges at the Detroit district courthouse should be removed because at least two of them may be witnesses in the prosecution of Kilpatrick and his former chief of staff Christine Beatty.

In March, Worthy charged Kilpatrick with eight felony counts and Beatty with seven felony counts ranging from perjury to misconduct in office to obstruction of justice in relation to their testimony in a police whistle-blower trial.

 

Lawyer says job was to keep text messages secret

7/10/2008, 12:19 a.m. EDT
The Associated Press

DETROIT (AP) - A former attorney for Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick says his job was to keep text messages linked to an $8.4 million whistle-blowers' settlement secret.

William Mitchell III testified Wednesday in a deposition conducted by attorneys for the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.

Mitchell says he delivered an envelope from Kilpatrick to an attorney in Virginia. The envelope is believed to have contained excerpts of the text messages

 

TV anchor promoted sludge deal

Synagro says it paid Fox 2's Fanchon Stinger for PR
Paul Egan and Leonard N. Fleming / The Detroit News

DETROIT -- Fanchon Stinger, a recently suspended anchorwoman for Fox 2 Detroit, was paid by Synagro Technologies Inc. in connection with a multimillion-dollar city sludge contract that is under investigation by the FBI, a Synagro spokeswoman confirmed Wednesday.

Last September, less than two months before the Synagro deal was approved in a 5-4 vote by the Detroit City Council, Stinger formed the media consulting and public speaking company Stinger Strategies LLC, records show.

Synagro paid Stinger Strategies an undisclosed sum to place media advertisements in connection with the city sludge contract, Synagro spokeswoman Darci McConnell of McConnell Communications said Wednesday.

McCain Suggests Obama Will Shift Iraq Position After Petraeus Meeting

ABC News' Jennifer Parker Reports: Sen. John McCain Wednesday suggested Sen. Barack Obama may alter his promise to withdraw US troops from Iraq within 16 months after meeting with US. General David Petraeus, the commander of US forces in Iraq.

"I'm glad that he [Obama] is, for the first time, asking for a sit down briefing with Gen. Petraeus and I'll be very interested in what his position on Iraq is when he returns," McCain said during a satellite interview with ABC News' Charlie Gibson Wednesday from Pittsburgh.

Watch part of Sen. McCain's interview with Charles Gibson on ABC's World News tonight at 6:30pmET.

"On the issue of Iraq, I am glad he's going for the first time in 900 days," McCain told Gibson, chiding Obama for visiting Iraq once since the war started compared to his eight visits.

Obama walks the abortion minefield

By CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN | 7/10/08 4:39 AM EST

For the past week, some activists in the abortion rights community have been trying to figure out why Barack Obama, a Democrat praised for his strong defense of reproductive rights, appeared to be turning soft.

Those who work on the frontlines of the abortion debate couldn't quite believe what they were hearing: Obama, in an interview with a Christian magazine, seemed to reject a mental health exception to the ban on late-term abortions. They feared that Obama, like Democrat John Kerry in 2004, was adopting a view favored by abortion opponents to appeal to conservatives.