College students from all over Michigan will be in Battle Creek this Saturday to show their support for Rep. Martin Griffin, D-Jackson, in his race for the vacant 19th District Senate seat that represents Calhoun and Jackson counties.
Griffin voted in the minority on Sept. 30 to protect the Michigan Promise Scholarship from getting axed and preserve other higher education funding, and college students are standing up for Griffin for that support.
The plan is to invade the district beginning at 10 a.m. Saturday Oct. 10 at the Martin Griffin for State Senate campaign office in Calhoun County, 38 Michigan Ave E: Battle Creek, 49017.
The Nov. 3 election is less than a month away, and this is the first step in taking back the Senate like we did the House in 2006. The Republicans enjoy a thin 21-16 lead with the vacant seat, and they are pulling out all the stops to win it back. They see it as the first step in keeping control of the Senate in 2010. More people voted for Senate Democrats in 2006, but they gerrymandered the districts so badly, they kept control.
We saw the importance of Democrats having control during the recent budget process. Like I said, Republicans are pulling out all the stops in trying to win this seat, and they have gone as far as to pay for hotel rooms and transportation for the so-called volunteers for the Republican opponent.
Apparently, paying volunteers is a common practice in the GOP, and we saw a prime example of that during the so-called Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference last month where college Republicans bragged about underage drinking and partying.
The canvas is not limited to students or even parents of students struggling to help their student pay for college, so grab a friend or two and come out with your walking shoes. And think car pool. Call (269) 425-4333 for further information.
3 comments:
"More people voted for Senate Democrats in 2006, but they gerrymandered the districts so badly, they kept control."
It wasn't that gerrymandered. I could have drawn a much better partisan map if I was in charge of it. Even Bob Emerson liked the senate map way back in 2002.
More people voted for Senate Democrats in 2006, but they gerrymandered the districts so badly, they kept control.
That statement is a fact, and you can’t refute it.
More so on the congressional seats than the state senate or house though. That's where there was an actual reduction in seats,so they cut stuff up around metro Detroit and took Rogers as far east as they could toward Pontiac.
But they all do it - how the district lines are redrawn depends on who controls the state. Used to have some real finger districts all around Detroit in the past to look after west Wayne County.
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