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Wednesday, November 08, 2006

First '08 Power Play: Anti-Anuzis Coup Underway in MI

The ink is barely dry from last night's dismal election returns and the expected move to oust Saul Anuzis, the very effective chair of the Michigan Republican Party, is already underway. Anuzis confirmed as much in an email today to Michigan GOP loyalists. His expected challenger: Dave Dishaw, a McCain partisan put up by Chuck Yob. From Anuzis's email:

I have decided to run for Chairman again.

To be perfectly honest with you, I was not planning on jumping into this so quickly, but the stories that were brought up in the press last week appear to be more real than not. There is a campaign underway to “find” a new Chairman. Just for your information, they are planning to have Dave Dishaw replace me.

Presidential politics is coming into play, along with personal agendas here that have nothing to do with electing Republicans. And some people are already maneuvering for who should be our next Governor nominee. ...

As we go through the Presidential process, I believe it’s critical to have someone who is neutral and can help hold the party together. I have been clear to everyone that I intend to stay neutral and that it would be beneficial to have a State Chairman who could help keep the party together during the upcoming Presidential campaigns.

I wasn’t prepared to get a campaign together before all the votes are counted, but I think all of you know my background and what I have done as Chairman. So I’m throwing out this quicky email.

The Hotline is also reporting on this, and say that the move has been approved by McCain's high command. The charge against Anuzis? That he has a relationship with Sterling Communications, which does business with Mitt Romney. But Anuzis's very voluminous public writings, including a daily newsletter posted on RedState, betray no signs of bias. He has called John McCain "the closest thing we have to a rock star." (Ugh.) Even some McCain supporters are scratching their heads at this boneheaded move.

There will be some effort to blame Anuzis for the losses in the Senate and Governor's races as a pretense for ousting him. In case you hadn't noticed, Republicans recorded no pickups anywhere at the Congressional level on up, and DeVos and Bouchard weren't particularly appealing candidates. Mike McGavick got crushed by a similar margin in Washington, despite being a better candidate than Bouchard. Though Republicans didn't win, Karl Rove himself went out of his way to praise the Michigan 72 Hour plan in the final days of the campaign.

This naked power play is going to backfire massively. McCain is depending on his image as a "reformer" to carry the day against the Republican tsunami, but "reformers" don't secretly plot to hijack state parties by replacing effective leaders with their own lackeys.

This needs to be exposed for what it is. Though we have no idea what he thinks of my candidate, I strongly support Saul Anuzis.

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At 6:26 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

As a Giuliani fan, I could not disagree more with your assesment of the MI State Party Chair position.
First, your main assumption is that the challenge to Saul is motivated by Presidential politics. In case people have forgotten, Republicans just suffered one of the worst defeats in Michigan history. You can say all you want that this was just part of the Nation wide trend, but I don't buy this answer. The situation in Michigan was ripe for change. We are last in the country for Unemployment, job loss, and home foreclosures. Our eduation, criminal justice, and health insurance systems are out of wack. The reason that we lost in Michigan is that we got out messaged by the Democrats in this state. The blame for this falls squarely on the shoulders of State Party. Remember, Prop. 2 (Banning Affirmative Action) passed only trailing Granholm and Prop. 5 for the largest number of votes on the ballotl. Saul made the decision early on to oppose Proposition 2. This decision was a political calculation that completely backfired. Saul also tauts the success of his GOTV effort. I am looking at the numbers and I just don't see it. In my mind getting out the vote means getting people to vote who support your candidates. Saul used micro targeting data for the GOTV data. These people were not even identified as DeVos or Republican supporters. As a volunteer who help make these calls, I am confident that we helped get out the vote. The only problem is that the votes we were turning out were for the Democrats. This is not about Presidential Politics. This is about the need for new leadership so that Republican candidates have the resources needed to be successful in Michigan. I have heard Dave Dishaw talk and this is exactly his message. He wants to build the party for the ground up. The party should not be a top down organization, it should be a bottom up organization built on local grass root efforts. Dave wants to put the power back down to the local levels which is exactly where it should be.

Secondly, final point hinges on the fact that Saul is a neutral player in presidential politics. The one thing we have all learned over the past two years is that Saul is a political player who is anything but neutral. He weighed heavily into the Senate Primary in Michigan supporting Mike Bouchard (also a Sterling Client) and attacking Jerry Zandstra and Keith Butler. He weighed into the Schwarz/Walberg primary in an attempt to influence that race. There is no question that he would use the position of State Chair to weigh into the Presidential primary race as well. He has already tried to do this by changing the presidential selection process in Michigan to a Caucus system.
Make no mistake about it, Saul is not a Giuliani supporter and if left in the chairmanship another term this will become painfully apparent through is actions.

We need change and we need change now. It is time for Saul to go.

 
At 1:42 AM, Blogger Unknown said...

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At 4:53 AM, Blogger fathi said...

الكثير منا يبجث عن افضل شركه لتنظيف منزله وتتوافر لديها كل الامكانيات الحديثه التى قد تساعدك على الحصول نظافه لبيتك شركة تنظيف فلل بجدة نموذجيه وبافضل واحدث المعدات وبطرق عصريه حديثه بعيده كل البعد عن الطرق التقليديه والتى يمكنها ان تسبب لنا المشاكل لذا قررت ان تبحث عن شركة تنظيف مميزه بافضل واحدث الامكانيات فكل ماعليك هوا الاستعانه بافضل شركة تنظيف فى المملكه العربيه السعوديه الا وهيا شركة تيم كلين المتخصصه فى تنظيف المنازل والفلل والشقق والبيوت والقصور والوجهات والشركات واى مكان قد نتواجد به حيث ان شركتنا تقدم خدمات التنظيف بالشكل الصحيح وبالاساليب الحديثه العصريه التى توفر عليك عناء التعب وكذلك الوقت والجهد المبذول فى كافة اعمال التنظيف
تقدم شركتنا خدمة تنظيف شقق بشكل رائع ومميز جدا شركة تنظيف بجدة
وبما ان الشقق من الانشطه الرئيسيه فى اعمال التنظيف للشركه نههتم دائما بعمل تنظيف دورى لها وبشكل مستمر ونوفر لها افضل المعدات الحديثه ومواد التنظيف عالية الجودة حتى نجعل البيت خالى تمام من اى امراض واى غبار واى جراثيم فى بيتك
خدمات تنظيف للمنازل
لاشك ان تنظيف المنازل من اهم الامور الضروريه التى يجب علينا ان نفكر فى كيفة تنيظيفها بشكل جيد وباسلوب حديث ومتقن جدا
وفى تنظيف المنازل سنعرض عليكم باختصار قائمه باهم اعمالنا فى مجال التنظيف
• تنظيف للحمامات وكذلك غسل المراه وزجاج وكل الاسطح شركة تنظيف بالمدينة المنورة
• نعمل على تنظيف للمطابخ وتنظيف وغسل الثلاجات وازالة اى من القمامه الموجوده
• تنظيف كل الغرف والممرات والقاعات
• نظافه لكل الاغطيه للارضيات والجدران ايضا
• تنظيف شامل لكل الواجهات الزجاجيه وكذلك واجهات الحجر شركة تنظيف بالبخار بجدة

نهتم ايضا بنظافة الفلل ونعمل على تنظيفها بشكل ممتاز جدا

 
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At 2:34 PM, Blogger mohmed said...



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