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Embezzlement Kickbacks and Overcharging Mileage: Lee Chatfield is Back in the News
Tuesday , 16, April 2024 LGBT Rights, Michigan Republicans, MIGOP 1 CommentIt seems only a year ago that a former Republican Speaker of the State House was found guilty of taking bribes for medical marijuana dispensary licenses. That’s because it is! Today, Attorney General Dana Nessel read the charges against Lee Chatfield and his wife in Lansing. Both are charged with misusing social welfare account contributions […]
How to Create a Constitutional Crisis While Drinking Dom Pérignon: MI GOP Grasps the Last Straw
Sunday , 22, November 2020 Election 2020, MAGA, Sad!, Trumpenreich Leave a commentUp North Progressive has been pretty quiet lately. That’s because the Up North Progressive volunteered on the campaign staff of a state house candidate. It was a great learning experience, but there was so much writing to do about one candidate, it made writing about anything else happening up north difficult. The best part of […]
Northern Michigan Fruit Farm Founded by Nazis Sues Lil’ Hitler over Wearing Masks
Thursday , 13, August 2020 COVID_19, Election 2020, MAGA, Trumpenreich 7 CommentsUPDATE! A reader provided a copy of what Friske Orchards Farm provides to customers when they ask about wearing masks in their store. You can see it below. On August 5, 2020, Friske Orchards Farm filed suit against Governor Gretchen Whitmer due to violating the legal mandatory mask order. The Charlevoix farm in Antrim County, […]
@LeeChatfield and the rest of the @MIGOP Pretend to Backtrack their Support of Domestic Terrorism
Friday , 15, May 2020 Governor Gretchen Whitmer, MAGA, Sad! 2 CommentsLee Chatfield (R-TSA agents think I’m cute), Speaker of Michigan’s State House, and representing the 107th district has never once met a gun he didn’t like. Remember when he introduced a bill to eliminate handgun registration in Michigan? A year later he was handcuffed in a TSA agent’s office at Pellston Regional Airport after trying […]
You Better Quit Larry We Really Mean It This Time: Michigan State House District 104 is Stuck With Larry Inman to the Bitter End
Wednesday , 5, June 2019 Michigan Republicans Leave a commentYesterday, the Michigan State House drafted a resolution “urging” Larry Inman (R-Would it have been okay if Betsy DeVos wrote the check?) to resign his seat as representative for the 104th State House District. On May, 15, 2019, Inman was charged by a federal court for extortion and lying to the FBI. Inman, claiming the […]
WATCH: Lee Chatfield’s 7-15-2018 Arrest Video After Attempting to Bring a Loaded Unregistered Firearm Through Airport Security
Friday , 26, October 2018 Candidates, Election 2018 6 CommentsBack on July 15, 2018, Lee Chatfield (R-Can’t Remember Where His Unregistered Loaded Guns Are) was arrested at Pellston Regional Airport after attempting to bring a loaded, unregistered firearm through airport security. Emmet County Prosecutor James Linderman didn’t press charges, and Progress Michigan reported in August that Linderman donated $625 to Chatfield’s campaign for re-election. […]
Michigan Republicans Adopt Resolution Demanding SCOTUS Respect States’ Rights: Anti-Marbury v. Madison Edition
Monday , 4, May 2015 LGBT Rights, Same Sex Marriage Leave a commentStraws, meet Clutching. Right-wing religious authoritarians in the United States are terrified because they know the end of treating same sex couples as second class citizens no longer is a matter of if, but when. Their ability to discriminate against people of the LGBT community makes them cry out they’re the ones being discriminated against. […]
Please Support House Bill 4147 And Radically Change Our Public Schools
Saturday , 14, February 2015 Section 16 Leave a commentEvery week, the Up North Progressive’s email inbox receives a list of bills introduced to the Michigan state legislature. This week, the Michigan House wants to make teaching Reading, Writing, and Math illegal with HB 4143. They also don’t want Michigan schools teaching Science either. The Michigan House also believes they need to tell women […]
As Above So Below: Tea Party Hate In Michigan
Sunday , 19, October 2014 Candidates, Community, Nerd Problems Leave a commentWhether you live up north or down state in Michigan, one of the most interesting aspects of the 2014 election that barely anyone’s talking about is the split in the Republican big tent. And by split I mean yawning Hell’s Canyon-deep chasm (Hell’s Canyon is on the Idaho-Oregon border. I mention Idaho for a reason). […]