Battle For The Michigan Republican Party Chair...

Even before the elections were over in which we took a bath, party activists were planning on replacing Michigan Republican Party Chairman Saul Anuzis. This is really too bad since these party activists should have been focused entirely on the election battles at hand and not intra-party politics at a critical moment in history. I'm not going to throw stones at those involved in trying to replace Anuzis. What I will tell you is who is supporting the re-election of Saul Anuzis and that is Attorney General Mike Cox and that's good enough for me. Fact is I've met Saul and I read his blog on a regular basis. I view him as a good conservative leader that has only had a single term as party chair to make this party better and more effective. Some people are trying to use Anuzis as the scapegoat for the bath we've taken but I'll tell you it could have been worse in Michigan. We did lose the State House but we kept the State Senate. We lost no Republican Congressional Seats. We retained both the AG and the SOS. At the same time nationally we took a blood bath loosing control of both the U.S. House and Senate. This means surrounding states lost much more than we did. Many surrounding states fell to the Democrat landslide loosing AG's and SOS's and much more. The bottom line - support Saul Anuzis for re-election to the Chair of the Michigan Republican Party. Of course if you're not part of the party it's hard to vote for Saul!

UPDATE: 11/18/06 Dave Dishaw the gentleman who was challenging the Chairman has withdrawn his challenge and now endorses Saul Anuzis for another 2 year term as Chairman of the Michigan Republican Party.