Wednesday, February 29, 2012
'I was confident we could come together today and take a giant step toward a brighter future,' Bloomfield-area native tells backers after a tense primary day.
NOVI – Mitt Romney was looking for a little home cooking, and he got it. The son of former Michigan Gov. George Romney who was born and raised in Bloomfield Hills needed a win to stop surging opponent Rick Santorum and ease fears that he couldn’t take a state in which the economy is the issue. He ended up taking what many political pundits called a "must win" with 43 percent of the vote statewide and overwhelming support in Oakland and Wayne counties. “It’s a big, big win and I just wanted to come down here and join the rally and the celebration,” Troy resident Bill McNeil said after leaving the ballroom where Romney gave his victory speech at the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi. “I was a little worried earlier today when I saw the …
Monday, February 27, 2012
Romney supporters are treated to a musical performance by a guy who 'epitomizes Detroit and is an icon.'
When Michigan Atty. Gen. Bill Schuette asked, “Royal Oak do you want to rock?” and “Michigan do you want to roll?” on Monday night, he was serious. Moments later, after addressing more than 1,000 supporters at the Royal Oak Music Theatre, Mitt Romney described driving to the home of “a fellow that lives in this area.” “I asked him whether he might come here tonight. I think you know him pretty well,” Romney teased the crowd. “He’s a native son of Detroit. He loves Michigan and he loves Detroit.” The Republican presidential candidate’s campaign promised to deliver Gov. Rick Snyder and a "special musical guest from Detroit" on his “Earn It” bus tour to Royal Oak. When the burgundy stage curtains where finally drawn, local music hero Kid Rock…
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As approval for President Barack Obama wanes, disenfranchised Arab American voters are keeping open minds for who to support come Election Day.
When Dearborn resident Amal Berry-Brown left the National Leadership Conference for Arab Americans in October, she said she walked away sad. Because while the annual conference–held in 2011 in Dearborn–is always about creating a unified political and social voice for the community, it’s hard to find unity without a clear political leader. In 2008, that person was then presidential candidate Barack Obama. But heading into 2012’s election season, the choices are much murkier. “The Arab American community is a bit disenfranchised,” Berry-Brown, a Comerica vice president and community leader, told Dearborn Patch last October. “We had a great deal of hope in President Obama, and some of that really hasn’t come to fruition. So in 2012, it will …
Ronald Wolf
3:02 pm on Friday, May 25, 2012
Herb, your obviously a very inrtelligent gentleman and I hope you will continue to opine despite the know it alls with agendas. I get the feeling you are a staunch democrat. I have no problem with that, the democrats have done more to help the average middle class family and seniors than Reagan and his cheese. Where I differ is since we are in the age of information, the machinations of … more ›