More Things Stay The Same -- A Michigan Politics Post State Dems Convention Commentary
It literally took twenty-four hours to write this commentary....
This is most prudent sentence to effectively describe what took place at the Annual Convention of Michigan Democrats located in Detroit on Valentine's Day 2015. Before circling the aftermath of what did stay the same, it would be best to travel back in time to November 4, 2014 -- a day that will live in infamy.
Michigan Democrats lost big time with exceptions of former Congressman -- now Senator Gary Peters (D), former Southfield Mayor now Congresswoman Brenda Lawrence (D - Oakland County) becoming first African-American Woman elected from the state to Congress since 2010, and former private Attorney now Justice Richard Bernstein to the Michigan Supreme Court.
Lawrence, Peters and Bernstein's wins were profound, yet in reality these candidates won these races on their own merit.
Now, back to what happened Democrats in other Statewide elections in the year 2014.
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However it appears the Party Apparatus will be the way it is throughout 2016, which is sad a major changes were necessary now to begin the process of straighten out what has been a declining line of at the Top Governmental Leadership in Michigan since 2010 and internally at the helm for Democrats since 2013.
Either way, we will continue to stand for Progressive, Middle and Lower Economic Class values, for those who desire to achieve against a system -- which continually makes it harder for them to do so, and the against established "Powers That Be".
We would not have it any other way.
