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135 Twitter Followers and One Tedx Talk: @Evan_McMullin Already Better Qualified For President Than @realDonaldTrump
Monday , 8, August 2016 Candidates, Elections, Presidential Primary 2016 Leave a commentThere are mornings Up North Progressive kicks themselves in the butt for sleeping in. In the wee hours of the morning, while the dream fog of Clinton leading Trump by 10 points in the polls faded with the morning light, there stirred a disturbance in the political aether that no one saw coming. BREAKING FIRST […]
Could the Tea Bagging of Kansas Finally Be Over?
Thursday , 4, August 2016 Candidates, Elections, Flint Water, Nerd Problems, Tea Party, Tealiban 3 CommentsTurns out Speaker Boehner is indeed enjoying Kansas primary night. Just received this from former staffer! pic.twitter.com/hIzmFt8hn0 — carl hulse (@hillhulse) August 3, 2016 John Boehner seems to think so. The former Speaker who had an epiphany when the Pope visited and resigned from the House was photographed enjoying a glass of wine with a […]
Meet the Candidates Michigan State House District 100: Sandy Clarke
Thursday , 28, July 2016 Candidates, Elections, Meet the Candidates 2016 2 CommentsIn November a candidate with real vision to make lives better for all residents living in the 100th state house district will be elected to Michigan’s State Legislature. That candidate is Sandy Clarke. Sandy Clarke of Webber Township in Lake County is an Adjunct Professor of Political Science at West Shore Community College. Clarke earned […]
Meet the Candidates 2016 US House District 1: Lon Johnson and Jerry Cannon
Monday , 27, June 2016 Candidates, Elections, Enbridge Line 5, Meet the Candidates 2016, Upper Peninsula 3 CommentsThe August 2 primary will be here soon, and in Michigan’s first congressional district two candidates from Kalkaska will appear on the Democratic Party primary ballot: Lon Johnson and Jerry Cannon. Michigan’s first US House District is the largest district in the state. Lon Johnson is the former chair of the Michigan Democratic Party. In […]
The Up North Progressive, currently gearing up for another election season of meet the candidate posts noticed something when cruising through the Secretary of State’s unofficial candidate list. Understandably, this is the unofficial list, but the list won’t be made official until after the results of the August 3rd primary and Michigan moves on to […]
But Todd Courser is running for Lapeer County Prosecutor so … I bet Todd was a blast at parties in High School! And to be fair, here’s a picture of Cindy Gamrat swag at a Kalamazoo tea party military memorabilia event in 2014, complete with clip board of nominating petitions. Good job, Republicans! You know […]
Donald Trump Being Donald Trump Early This Morning
Thursday , 28, January 2016 Candidates, Presidential Primary 2016 Leave a comment“@gene70: @FireFlyFury @megynkelly @realDonaldTrump And this is the bimbo that’s asking presidential questions? pic.twitter.com/oU1uUGnuWb“ — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 28, 2016 He doesn’t even let the sun come up before he’s slinging insults and misogyny around. What a jackass.
Commit To Vote Blue In 2016 No Matter Who Wins The Primary
Thursday , 24, December 2015 Candidates, Elections, Presidential Primary 2016 2 CommentsComments to the most recent Up North Progressive article was expected. One commenter suggested the article be removed. Another commenter informed me I would have to change the name of the blog if I don’t support Bernie Sanders for president. Then someone did some cheer leading for Bernie Sanders on Up North Progressive’s Facebook page […]
What Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders Have In Common
Tuesday , 22, December 2015 Candidates, Elections, Presidential Primary 2016 Leave a commentNeither one of them will ever be nominated by any party to run for president. Now that we have that out of the way, let’s discuss why. After 7 years of racism coming from the extreme and not so extreme fringe of the right, it’s no longer necessary to even put up a facade of […]
Good Riddance to a Horrible Scam Artist: Larry Lessig Drops Out of Presidential Race
Monday , 2, November 2015 Candidates, Presidential Primary 2016 1 CommentI can’t imagine why. Anyway, the Gods smiled upon us and he’s out of the race. Not that he was ever really in the race. May you and your brony boy Brian Boyko never be heard from to steal another dollar with your poorly executed money scams again.