Support Bridget Mary McCormack for Supreme Court

Posted on April 4, 2012 by admin

You are cordially invited to attend a reception in honor of Michigan Supreme Court candidate Bridget Mary McCormack at the Home of J. Paul and Melissa Janes.

Where: 2647 Lake Drive SE, East Grand Rapids (between Bonnell and Princeton)
When: Wednesday, April 18th, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

The host committee is still in formation, please contact Heather at (734) 707-1825 or events@mccormackforjustice.comfor more information, or click here to give online to support this event.

Note: Michigan Code of Judicial Conduct prohibits a judicial campaign committee from soliciting more than $100 per attorney. If you are an attorney, please regard this as informative and not a solicitation for more than $100. However, an attorney may make, and the judicial campaign committee may accept, a contribution from an attorney in any amount up to the individual maximum of $3,400.

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Free Democratic Bumper Stickers

Posted on April 1, 2012 by admin

If you’re proud to call yourself a Democrat, these stickers are a great way to show it off to the world.

You’ll be telling everyone who sees it that you’re committed to our common values of protecting health care reform, defending a woman’s right to choose, and creating an economy built to last.

And who knows? You just might inspire someone who sees it. Maybe they’ll head online to learn more about what it means to be a Democrat. Maybe they’ll get involved in a local campaign.

Maybe you’ll change someone’s mind this November.

So put these wherever folks can see them — on your car, in your window, or on your backpack.

Get your free sticker today:

http://my.democrats.org/Get-Your-Free-Sticker

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Charles Blow – A Mother’s Grace and Grieving

Posted on March 29, 2012 by admin

“They called him Slimm.”

That is what Sybrina Fulton, the mother of the slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, told me people called her son because he was so thin.

I talked with her Saturday in a restaurant near her home, four weeks to the day after George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer in a gated community in Sanford, Fla., shot Trayvon in the chest and killed him. Trayvon was unarmed, carrying nothing more than candy and a drink.

Read the rest at NYTimes.com

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