Policy nerd. World’s Best Dad with the mug to prove it. Currently @MichiganLEO, formerly @RepDerekKilmer @SenGaryPeters @JohnDingell @SenCarlLevin. Go Green!
East Lansing, MI
Joined January 2008
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Michigan is powering the future and innovating the next generation of EVs. We’re grateful to the Biden-Harris Administration for choosing Michigan as a home to one of their new Workforce Hubs, helping us support good-paying jobs and manufacturing right here at home.
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I agree with Greg Olsen: Dan Campbell has continued to coach the Lions the way he has coached them for three years during which he took them from NFL laughingstock to the NFC Championship Game. Why would anyone expect him to change now?
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I believe in due process. But I also believe that Alan Haller has enough information now to suspend Mel Tucker as coach and should do so immediately:
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Mel Tucker has likely coached his last game at Michigan State.
Column.
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It’s terrifying. But if I was the Trump campaign, I would get you to help @NoLabelsOrg field a third-party candidate, because that would be our surest path to victory and the dystopian hellscape of this ad.
That’s what you’re doing. I encourage you to give me your reaction.
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We’ve been shouting about No Labels for months now & our message hasn't changed.
- No Labels is funded by extremists w/ ties to Trump & DeSantis world.
- Their current plan will help Trump win in 2024.
- They're an obstacle in our fight to save democracy.
These are the facts.
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Couch: Looking for a savior for downtown Lansing? Look in the mirror lansingstatejournal.com/stor…
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“No Labels is wasting time, energy, and money on a bizarre effort that divides voters, and has one obvious outcome — reelecting Donald Trump," says @RepSpanberger. @ProbSolveCaucus Dems irate over @NoLabelsOrg attack on @RepSchneider. @dlippman writes rb.gy/e5uj7
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It’s kind of amazing the @WGAWest exists if you think about it. A union of people who work at different times for different companies, with real power? Can you imagine if such a thing tried to form today, the cries from employers that it would ruin their flexible business model?
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In Tennessee as of April 1, you can bring a loaded firearm to brunch without a permit but a guy could not dress up like Dolly Parton and sing Jolene without risking a misdemeanor.
Tennessee governor Bill Lee issued a statement recently about how the drag ban in Tennessee “protects children”
If only he would have instead focused on laws that might have prevented the mass murder of children in his state today
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Kids in Tennessee aren't being killed by drag shows or gender affirming care, but state lawmakers banned them anyway to "protect children." Meanwhile, guns are the leading killer of kids in Tennessee and lawmakers are actually weakening state gun laws. npr.org/2023/03/02/116078453…
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Check out my piece in the @freep with @NewDEALLeader @MalloryMcMorrow highlighting how Michigan used federal recovery funds to help people across the state. Democrats deliver. freep.com/story/opinion/cont… cc: @GovWhitmer @andyschor @davidwcoulter
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This is your periodic reminder that TARP, the program that "bailed out" US banks in 08-09, was a loan program that the government earned $15 billion in profit.
Being restated today for no particular reason.
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Important piece by @PaulBegala about the damage that a well-financed third-party bid by No Labels could do.
TL/DR: They can't win (they can't win a single EV), but they could re-elect Trump. We must pay attention to this NOW.
cnn.com/2023/03/02/opinions/…
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"No Labels' central project – organizing a moderate third-party candidacy for president in 2024 – would likely reward the most extreme, most divisive, most angry forces in our politics." @PaulBegala warns 3rd party prez run elects Trump. rb.gy/7oj7v7
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Today, I’m announcing my run to be Michigan’s next U.S. Senator.
We need a new generation of leaders that thinks differently, works harder, and never forgets that we are *public servants*
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With Crisler Arena bathed in green light, the UM band plays the MSU alma mater. #SpartanStrong
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Only in America does one experience not one — but two mass school shootings by the age of 21.
Tragedy after tragedy. We are failing a generation.
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I chaired the House Select Committee on Modernization of Congress for the past 4 years to fix the broken process & facilitate bipartisan collaboration. We proved (through over 200 recommendations!) that Democrats and Republicans actually CAN work together. washingtonpost.com/opinions/…