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Voting Blue because of Trump

Voting Blue because of Trump 250 years ago our forefathers gave us the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. We the people must come out in droves to keep our Democracy alive. No matter what the party, religion, what color, or creed you are, to keep the Freedom of Press alive for us all. Our moral fiber and souls are being torn apart by the fascist and lying Donald Trump and his 2025 project, cabinet sympathizers. Don “The Con” Trump and his corruption are bankrupting this country. He’s not a Conservative. $10.2 million ads to promote himself with taxpayer’s money. ...

How can this be okay?

By now most in the community have seen, received or heard about the flyer the Alpena County Republican Party mailed to countless county residents in the last couple of weeks. The flyer is a smear campaign against four school board candidates, Sarah Fritz, Claire Kipfmiller, Evan Carlson and Kayla Ratz. The flyer was disparaging of four of our fellow community members who decided to give of their time and personal finances to serve this community by running for a nonpartisan school board seat. And for that they were subject to nothing short of character assassination. All of that is ...

Time to send Bergman packing

Jack Bergman is asking us to return him to Congress. In the 8 years he's been in office, his votes in the House have destroyed industry, livelihoods, and lives. Every time I fill up my gas tank, I think of Bergman and his cowardice to stand up against Trump's war of choice with Iran. Without Congressional approval, that illegal war which has spilled American blood, has driven up the cost of diesel and gasoline world-wide. In this rural district, affordable gas and diesel are our life-line to a job, health care, education for our kids, and more. Further, it's forced farmers into ...

The mudslingers

Wow. This is perhaps the new low. The Alpena County Republican Party (ACRP) just conducted the biggest smear campaign imaginable. Instead of talking about the qualifications and vision of the four school board candidates they are endorsing and funding, they decided instead to spend thousands on a flyer that can only be described as hate-filled mudslinging. As a reminder to all, school board seats are nonpartisan and yet the ACRP not only endorsed four candidates, they also funded the signage you see for them around the county. Then they doubled-down by funding a 11x6” flyer that was ...

See through the hate and political rhetoric

Imagine teaching our children that bullying, name-calling and personal attacks are acceptable ways to get what you want. Now imagine those tactics showing up in the homes where children live. That is exactly what Alpena voters received last week in a political mailer attacking four candidates for our school board. What makes this even more troubling is that the mailing was paid for by the Alpena County Republican Party, for an election to nonpartisan school board seats. School board elections are supposed to be about the people willing to serve our children, their qualifications, ...

League of Women Voters event

On Wednesday, Sept. 23, I attended the League of Women Voters candidating event, where the candidates running for seats on the Alpena Public Schools Board of Education and Alpena County residents had the opportunity to meet in a non-confrontational and informal session. Attendees were seated at five tables (the original plan was for eight tables), but three of the eight candidates did not appear. Lindsey Klein, Vincent Thomas and Robert Bruning apparently did not provide a reason for their absence. The candidates were allowed 15 minutes at each table where they answered as many ...