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So, which is
it, Saul? The statesman or the Klansman? The son of Lithuanian
imÂmigrants who believes in the American Dream or the
cheapshot who perpetuates the politics of race?
On the statesman side Anuzis seems to be working hard show the GOP's potential appeal to African Americans. For inÂstance, read what Chairman Saulius had to say about the GOP African American outreach program, "Juneteenth," on his blog:
Sources close to the Michigan Caucus say that Dick Devos, the Republican nominee for governor, is planning an "October Surprise." A press conference has been scheduled by the DeVos campaign at 3:00 pm today in Grand Rapids.
DeVos is expected to announce his long-awaited plan to make-up the projected $3.5 billion revenue shortfall anticipated from the repeal of Michigan's Single Business Tax and other taxes DeVos says he would do away with. DeVos has received harsh critisim from the Democrats and the press for not revealing the specifics of his economic plan and how he would replace revenue lost from the tax repeals.
In an unprecidented move, DeVos will annouce that is he prepared to dip into his own personal fortune and pay the state's revenue shortfall - $3.5 billion or more - if elected govenor. DeVos could lose up to 0.2% of his net worth.
The Michigan Caucus Internet Commandos were able to hack into the DeVos for Governor site confirming that new content - announcing "Dick to Pay Your Taxes!" - was set to be published at the same time as the press conference.
Calls to the DeVos and Granholm campaigns were not returned, but Michigan Democratic Party Chairman Mark Brewski says that DeVos' offer to pay off the deficit is simply a bald-faced effort to buy the governor's office, "Dick DeVos is desperate."
Unconfirmed reports also say that DeVos will support a repeal of the personal income tax, so long as people sign-up for an Amway distributorship.
There once was a time when Republicans were moderate like Governor William G. Milliken (1969-1982), seen here with Saul Anuzis at the 1980 Republican National Convention in Detroit. The same convention that nominated former California Governor Ronald R. Reagan for president, marking the end of the Democratic Party as the majority party for the next 26 years.
The guy on Milliken's right is (now) former Dearborn District Court Judge William J. Runco who lost his reelection after receiving a public censure in 2001 from the Michigan Supreme Court for "self-dealing contrary to the interests of his (former private) clients." (Convinced a real estate client to sell land at low value to his secret business partner, then flipped the property for a cool $41,000 profit). Until the censure, Runco was considered for the GOP nomination to the Michigan Supreme Court. There's no real story here, we just thought it makes an interesting picture. (Photo: Michigan Journal, September 10, 1980).
Yeah, baby! Eat your heart out, or whatever it is that you have left Disembodied One, the herd, er, people on YouTube have made "Birth of a Candidate" the third most linked comedy video this week (see it below). We'd like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who made this film possible: First, our producer, __________ _____, who supported this film when no one else would but decided not to put one penny into it; our writers, _______ ___ and _____ _____, who did the best job they could without food or water until they finished the script; our five directors, __ __, __________ _, _____ ______, _______ _____ and _ _, who brought such focused vision to this film; and, the actors who didn't know that some 60 years later some hacks would lift their classic film to dis' a gubernatorial candidate. We like you, we really like you!
Call our agent! Get us to Hollywood!
We've been promising to publish more on Michigan Republican
Party Chairman Saul Anuzis' (incomplete) college education at the
University of Michigan-Dearborn, and here it is. Read the March 25,
1981, editorial from the student newspaper, the Michigan Journal,
commenting on Anuzis' "leadership" of the Student Government for
giving its official recognition to the Association for White
Students ... 
See the entire Michigan Caucus Dick DeVos video collection on YouTube! All five videos included: "Working to End Politics as Usual," "Lost in Translation," "Dick Bubble Head," "DeVos Dance Party!," and the newest video, "Birth of a Candidate." Click on the pic below to activate the YouTube videos.
Dick DeVos wasn't always the obvious choice for the Michigan Republican Party to run for governor against Jennifer Granholm. State GOP movers-and-shakers, while leery of pissin' off the xillionaire, didn't think that DeVos, with his Amway baggage and aw-shucks riches-to-riches-to-riches story, was quite the guy for the job. (Shit, the guy even looks like GWB - who want's THAT)?
So, how did DeVos breeze into the position of GOP standard-bearer against Granholm? Was it a simple case of money talking and bullshit walking - even though they were both available in equal amounts? Or, was there something else? Something less “concrete?â€
The Michigan Caucus has surreptitiously obtained a secret Republican biography on Dick DeVos explaining this question. Produced in China at the cost of several million dollars (US), the film finally explains how DeVos manifested himself as the Republican nominee for governor - beating out such notables as State Representative Jack "Who?" Hoogendyk for the top of the ticket.
And, now, at great risk to the lives of the Michigan Caucus Special Commandos we're able to present this video to you. Filmed entirely in coded Spanish (a peccadillo of the DeVos clan) the film has been translated and subtitled into everyday English by the Michigan Caucus Linguistics Division. If you happen to know Spanish, remember that the dialogue is in “code,†and that what may seem like ordinary Spanish conversation, means something more, something more deeply sinister...
Think you are?
Check again. With the Republicans devising new ways to
fraudulently disenfranchise
voters on a minute-by-minute basis, you can never be too sure.
Check your voter status at www.michigan.gov/vote.
If you're a Progressive Democrat, make sure you register by 5:00 p.m. today - go to your local governmental clerk or the nearest Secretary of State's Office. If you are a Republican, the election is next year. Really.
Unearned awards on sheriff's uniform?
Copyright 2006 by the MichÂiÂgan Caucus.
Ahhh, there's something about a uniform. No doubt about it.
Just look at Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard's snappy brown uniform. Yeah, its got every acÂcesÂsory a top law enÂforceÂment ofÂfiÂcer needs to look real, including (after the jump):
