JEFF TIMMER, former Executive Director of the Michigan Republican Party, is a political, public affairs and communications strategist who has spent 30 years in the trenches of Michigan and national politics. He has advised and directed hundreds of legislative, congressional, statewide political and ballot issue campaigns. He was an advisor to Ohio Governor John Kasich's 2016 presidential campaign.
Jeff is a leading redistricting expert and has been an advisor to Speakers of the Michigan House, Michigan Senate Majority Leaders, the Michigan House and Senate Republican campaign committees, and the Michigan Republican Party.
He is co-founder of Republicans and Independents for Biden, and is a senior advisor to the Lincoln Project.
MARK BREWER served for 18 years as chair or executive chair of the Michigan Democratic Party and as a member of the Democratic National Committee.
He's been a delegate to 5 Democratic National Conventions. He has been involved in a wide variety of election cases since the 1980s including county, legislative and congressional redistricting, presidential primaries/caucuses, recalls, recounts, ballot access, voter protection on Election Day and the protection of the right to vote a straight party ticket.
Mark’s ballot question work ranges from city to county to statewide on topics from the minimum wage, earned sick leave and community benefits to straight party voting, tax reform, redistricting, campaign finance and ethics reform, and county charter government.
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JEFF TIMMER, former Executive Director of the Michigan Republican Party, is a political, public affairs and communications strategist who has spent 30 years in the trenches of Michigan and national politics. He has advised and directed hundreds of legislative, congressional, statewide political and ballot issue campaigns. He was an advisor to Ohio Governor John Kasich's 2016 presidential campaign.
Jeff is a leading redistricting expert and has been an advisor to Speakers of the Michigan House, Michigan Senate Majority Leaders, the Michigan House and Senate Republican campaign committees, and the Michigan Republican Party.
He is co-founder of Republicans and Independents for Biden, and is a senior advisor to the Lincoln Project.
MARK BREWER served for 18 years as chair or executive chair of the Michigan Democratic Party and as a member of the Democratic National Committee.
He's been a delegate to 5 Democratic National Conventions. He has been involved in a wide variety of election cases since the 1980s including county, legislative and congressional redistricting, presidential primaries/caucuses, recalls, recounts, ballot access, voter protection on Election Day and the protection of the right to vote a straight party ticket.
Mark’s ballot question work ranges from city to county to statewide on topics from the minimum wage, earned sick leave and community benefits to straight party voting, tax reform, redistricting, campaign finance and ethics reform, and county charter government.
Ignorance is Bliss (Guest: Michigan AFL-CIO President Ron Bieber)
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Ignorance is Bliss (Guest: Michigan AFL-CIO President Ron Bieber)
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Like most Americans, we are stunned and saddened by the murder of political activist Charlie Kirk. Listeners to this podcast know that we differed with Kirk on many, many issues. We were not fans. Kirk's politics dabbled in racism, homophobia, misogyny and outright deception. He frequently used provocative language that bordered on inflammatory. But that's how the First Amendment works. Murdering political opponents, even those with whom you find reprehensible, is never the answer.
Mark Brewer and Walt Sorg offer their thoughts on the Kirk murder at the top of the podcast. Jeff, who is off this week, gave his view in a post on the Lincoln Square Substack.
Kirk’s Assassination Brings Trump’s Authoritarianism into Even Clearer Focus
Jeff Timmer @ Lincoln Square
On our radar this week...
In Lansing, a district judge ruled that the 2020 fake Trump electors were either too ignorant or too stupid to be convicted of a crime. Ignorance in this case actually is legal bliss!
Republicans are now arguing that 22 years ago somebody decided to forge Donald Trump's signature on a birthday wish for his BFF Jeffrey Epstein. They’ll probably try to blame it on Marty McFly and Doc Brown’s DeLoreon!
Speaking of Epstein, none of Michigan’s Republican members of Congress are backing the discharge petition to force release of all of the documents.
In Michigan politics, former state Senator Adam Hollier has pulled out of the 13th district congressional primary - good news by narrowing the field for Representative Donavan McKinney, who is challenging two-term incumbent Shri Thanedar. Meanwhile Hollier becomes the third Democrat running for Secretary of State.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that racial profiling is O.K. The message in the unsigned opinion: don’t speak Spanish in a Home Depot parking lot.
Donald Trump says domestic violence doesn’t count as a crime, as least in cities he’s invaded with the National Guard.
Former Michigan State economist Lisa Cook will continue as a Federal Reserve governor after a federal court puts a stay on Trump’s attempt to fire her in violation of the law.
Bill Pulte, the Federal Housing Finance Agency director who has led the charge in accusing Cook and Trump opponents of mortgage fraud, said. “If somebody is claiming two primary residences, that is not appropriate, and we will refer it for criminal investigation.” So maybe he should report his parents. Reuters reports that the senior Pulte’s - the Michigan real estate multi-millionaires - have claimed primary residences in both Michigan and Florida.
Almost unnoticed by the media, but felt in every household: inflation continues to climb even as monthly employment numbers sink. Trump’s economy is going from bad to worse.
Trump and his newly christened “Department of War” sank an unarmed Venezuelan speedboat hundreds of miles away from the United States, claiming it posed an imminent threat to the nation.
And this headline: the nation’s President who tried to overturn an election with a violent coup sentenced to 27 years in prison. No, not Trump…but his Brazilian buddy, Jair Bolsonaro.
All of that in just the last week. Breathtaking!
More than 445,000 federal employees saw their union protections disappear in August, as agencies moved to comply with an executive order President Trump signed earlier this year that called for ignoring collective bargaining contracts with nearly one million workers. Trump’s move comes at a time when unions have their highest public approval rating in years. Joining the conversation this week is Michigan AFL-CIO President Ron Bieber.
A Republic, If You Can Keep It
JEFF TIMMER, former Executive Director of the Michigan Republican Party, is a political, public affairs and communications strategist who has spent 30 years in the trenches of Michigan and national politics. He has advised and directed hundreds of legislative, congressional, statewide political and ballot issue campaigns. He was an advisor to Ohio Governor John Kasich's 2016 presidential campaign.
Jeff is a leading redistricting expert and has been an advisor to Speakers of the Michigan House, Michigan Senate Majority Leaders, the Michigan House and Senate Republican campaign committees, and the Michigan Republican Party.
He is co-founder of Republicans and Independents for Biden, and is a senior advisor to the Lincoln Project.
MARK BREWER served for 18 years as chair or executive chair of the Michigan Democratic Party and as a member of the Democratic National Committee.
He's been a delegate to 5 Democratic National Conventions. He has been involved in a wide variety of election cases since the 1980s including county, legislative and congressional redistricting, presidential primaries/caucuses, recalls, recounts, ballot access, voter protection on Election Day and the protection of the right to vote a straight party ticket.
Mark’s ballot question work ranges from city to county to statewide on topics from the minimum wage, earned sick leave and community benefits to straight party voting, tax reform, redistricting, campaign finance and ethics reform, and county charter government.
