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This Week’s “Party on the Peninsulas”
✹ Chairperson Barnes: Energized, excited and enthused!
✹ Ingham Clerk Barb Byrum: Protecting elections from Republic attacks
✹This week’s Trump/GOP Outrage:
GOP Incompetence
This Week in the News
Harris for President
- Kamala Harris’s life, career and firsts from AG to the vice presidency – The Washington Post
- Biden’s Michigan delegates vote ‘overwhelmingly’ to endorse VP Harris – Detroit Free Press
- Election 2024: Harris raised $200M in first week of White House campaign – AP News
- Harris Unlikely to Face Obstacles in Using Biden’s Campaign Funds – Michigan Campaign Finance Network
- Kamala Harris Gets a Potentially Game-Changing Youth Vote Endorsement – Daily Beast
- Barack and Michelle Obama Endorse Kamala Harris for President – Harris 2024 – YouTube
- Fed’s preferred inflation gauge cools, adding to likelihood of a September rate cut – AP News
- Opinion | Biden legacy will show U.S. economy, foreign policy improved – Fareed Zakaria/The Washington Post
- Opinion | Three Writers <including Mallory McMorrow> on the Promise of Kamala Harris – The New York Times
Michigan Politics
- Audio – Lavora Barnes on NPR’s “1-A”
- Why Democrats feel confident about holding the Senate in November – Senator Gary Peters/MSNBC
- New Michigan poll shows where Trump-Harris race stands after Biden decision – ClickOnDetroit.com
- UAW chief rips Trump as ‘scab’ who ‘didn’t do a damn thing’ for auto industry – MSNBC
- Whitmer says she’s not interested in joining Harris ticket – Detroit Free Press
- Mike Rogers Supports Keeping Trump’s Tax-Cuts-for-the-Rich – Washington Examiner
- Jeff Timmer: Republicans threaten the ‘Chimes of Freedom’ – Michigan Advance
- Trump, Fain trade barbs over UAW, state of auto industry – Detroit Free Press
- Michigan GOP overstated its bank balance by $200K in recent FEC report – Detroit Free Press
Michigan Policy
- Whitmer signs $23.4B education budget into law. Here’s what’s in it. – Detroit Free Press
- Alpena County moves to fire library officials over sexually-themed youth books – Bridge Michigan
Trump/GOP Outrages
- Trump Significantly Hikes Fee For New Members to Join Mar-a-Lago Club – Daily Beas
- Arkansas has the worst voter registration rate. Republicans are pushing to make registration harder. – Justin Glawe/Popular Information
- What Project 2025 Would Mean for America’s Climate Policies – Mother Jones
- Take this hillbilly’s word for it: JD Vance doesn’t speak for us. – Willie Carver via MSNBC
- Nebraska Supreme Court upholds law restricting both medical care for transgender youth and abortion – AP News
