Eclectablog, who has been doing solid reporting on the takeover of Benton Harbor by an Emergency Financial Manager, has been wondering why MI’s Democratic Party hasn’t been more vociferous in supporting Benton Harbor. Today, he reported that MI Dems Chair Mark Brewer told Berrien County’s Dems that the MDP would not help them. The occasion [...]

The Democrats and Republicans have settled the suit seeking to prevent Michigan Republicans from using foreclosure lists to challenge voters. In his statement on the settlement, Michigan Democratic Chair Mark Brewer calls the settlement a Republican “surrender.”

The MDP and Obama campaign are suing the GOP over their plans to conduct vote-caging based on lists of homes in foreclosure.

A number of people complain that the resolution of MI’s delegation accepted by the RBC yesterday was arbitrary. That may be. But it was also based on precisely the concepts that Harold Ickes’ affirmed in his argument for the Clinton campaign.

The MI delegation is doing a much better job presenting its case than I thought it would.