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Friday, Jan. 17, 2024

It's time to classify meetings of the Mundy Township Board of Trustees as the newest clown show in the Metro Flint regional area.

Last Monday night in Mundy Township was the worst-run board or council meeting I've witnessed in my 50 years as a journalist.

Our old Flint friend, the late Eric Mays, was famous for his "point of order" and "point of information" interruptions when his colleagues broke the law on the Flint City Council. 

I kept waiting for Eric Mays to come down from Heaven to strangle the new township supervisor (Jennifer Arrand Stainton)  and her township attorney — Jack Beltzer.

Stainton is new, so we can excuse her for not upholding the township charter and laws of the State of Michigan as she swore to do when taking her oath of office. She tells me she went to a seminar that was put on by the Michigan Township Association and she plans to pick up some special training soon from a local expert parliamentarian to better chair over chaos that keeps erupting in her board room.

But her township attorney? He has a law license and they pay him to sit at the table with board members in Mundy Township.

Yet the only time Beltzer opened his mouth Monday night was to suggest something to the effect of how Nancy Chinonis was well qualified and came from a good firm. I think I'm gonna call him "Head Clown" out there from now on. That's gonna be my new radio show nickname for him until I make sure the Michigan Attorney Grievance Commission yanks his law license.

In my opinion, that should be his penalty.

The expert parliamentarian looked over a three-page list of rules within Mundy Township's charter, and deemed it an absolute train wreck. They don't even use Roberts Rules of Order, but made up their own goofy rules that don't begin to prevent chaos if arguments and disagreements occur.

Back to attorney Chinonis. 

She was hired earlier in the meeting last week as a labor lawyer to do an investigation into how Township Manager Chad Young claimed a vicious, nasty campaign was being led against him by Supervisor Stainton and her fellow newly-elected board member — Trustee Leah Davis. He was allowed to ramble on for nearly 20 minutes with a laundry list of slanderous statements.

We will get to that part shortly.

But first, back to Beltzer. Leah Davis, before she was elected, wanted to see certain non disclosure agreements (NDA's) allegedly signed by township officials. Chad Young didn't give them to her when she filed a FOIA request to see them. He gave her a bill of nearly $600.

As community activist Jerry Roberts noted, he has been filing FOIA requests in other local municipalities to see documents for years. "The most I've ever been charged is $15," he revealed.

Young wanted to be paid for redactions on the documents. What good is that?

Davis went to court over it and lost because she didn't use a lawyer. She's lucky the judge (Judge Bian Pickell) didn't fine her a bunch of money because it was a frivolous filing. State law calls that wasting the court's time.

But she wanted Young there after Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) officials were clear that no NDA's should have been used to hide public documents. A 2020 ruling by the State Supreme Court in Bizzio vs. Clarkston included a 37-page opinion upholding the 1976 Michigan Open Meetings Act. The case centered around village officials in Clarkston hiding documents with a developer from the public. The NDA's Leah Davis wants to see? Same thing. 

I told Beltzer about it on my radio show and from the public comment podium last summer at a Mundy Township board meeting, yet he sat mute although putting on a rather comical bobbing of his head as I shouted laws to him that should have been looked up.

The Michigan Press Association stepped in to take over the Bizzio case, and took it to the highest court in the mitten state to prove a point. The 37-page opinion by the top court was a strong message to township attorneys and city attorneys not to play games with what the law requires them to hand over. Basically, if there's a piece of paper on a public official's desk with scribbling on it — you can see it. The public official works for the taxpayers and they own the piece of paper.

Community activist Roberts, a frequent speaker at local board meetings, lives near the proposed Mega Site and told me: "I loved it when you went after Beltzer. It was kinda like a boxer taking shots over and over the way he was bobbing his head back every time you cited a law to him!"

One law in particular was how public speakers get three minutes to comment on items noted in "red"  on the agenda, then five more minutes to address the board about any other issue later in the meeting. One such item I used to rise to speak was a report by the Metro Police Authority Chief Matt Bade.

But when I started talking to Beltzer about it, then Township Supervisor Tonya Ketzler basically told me to sit down and shut up because I was "out of order."

The law is on my side. I wasn't out of order. If Chief Bade had something to talk about, it was a protest led by Stainton that his officers shut down during the previous week outside a political fundraiser for Ketzler. Bade's officers violated state law which bans patrols on private roads where most of his department's cop cars were buzzing around to keep away protesters from Ketzler's cozy gathering at a restaurant inside the Gateway Center complex. 

Beltzler ignored my warnings.

Kinda the same way he ignored perhaps more than 50 violations of Roberts Rules of Order last Monday night. Wait. My source the expert local parliamentarian reviewed a tape of the meeting and cited numerous violations of state law, reminding me that they can't violate Roberts Rules of Order because they don't bother to use it.

I'm firing off lawyer letters to everybody who violated state law. That would be Beltzer, Young and every board member.

So we can't go into specifics about any of that just yet. Let's first see how they respond.

But let me explain this in simple terms about one law that needs to reach the State Attorney General's desk for review right away.

Chinonis works for Tim Knecht's law firm in Flint.

She may be a fine lawyer as Beltzer says. I worked with her on a case by a former local supervisor when she worked for another law firm and wasn't real impressed. Let's borrow a line from Donald Trump and just note how I, too, don't like losers.

But good or not, she now works for Knecht's firm.

Before being elected, Leah Davis wanted to see those DNA's. She still wants to see them and Young went on a nearly 20-mintue tirade last Monday about how Davis and Supervisor Stainton have led a crusade against him that has caused him to mental problems and fear for what they might do to his wife and four kids. He said they have broken laws. He demanded an investigation be led by Chinonis.

So the board voted to do it. They voted to hire her.

So her boss, Knecht, is the guy who represents Tim Herman's private LLC that owns 1,029 acres of land within the controversial Mega Site. In fact, he was the Registered Agent when the LLC was formed. Herman was the only owner identified.

Herman is also President & CEO of the non-profit organization known as the Flint & Genesee Group that convinced our state's governor to give $29 million to his company's arm known as the Flint & Genesee Economic Alliance to build an advanced manufacturing plant on the Mega Site.

A plant most don't want out there as evidenced by Stainton ousting the old Supervisor in November, along with three others she endorsed who won seats on the board.

So now an investigation by a lawyer who works for Herman's law firm?

Don't you think Beltzer should have cried foul?

Or maybe shouted "CONFLICT OF INTEREST" as I'm gonna do to law enforcement?

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Mike Killbreath appears on Metro Flint News/Talk Radio via The Morning Gazette Radio Show weekday mornings from 8 am until 9:30 am. He's an award-winning newspaper columnist and investigative reporter who is the former long-time owner of the local Metro Flint area chain of 14 community newspapers. This fall marks his 50th year as a journalist. He also hosts a new weekly national TV show known as The American Crusaders on cable TV and various OTT TV live streaming platforms.

Friday, Nov. 29, 2024

WHERE AND WHEN DOES THIS LAW-FARE END? (Part 1 of a 2-part series)

(It’s Facebook and Google Goons Again Folks who have repeatedly this morning blocked this post.  Let’s see if the following gets through after being blocked several times already by these absolute fools!)

I sincerely hope you had a great Thanksgiving.  I certainly had a great Thanksgiving.  I only invited people over for dinner who I knew voted against Kamala Harris, thank you very much.

That ensured there would be no bickering at the dinner table yesterday beyond the usual, people bickering over the color of the meat they wanted. 

I just wanted a big piece of the meat on my plate for the meat part of my meal on Thanksgiving.  I could care less about the color of the meat, which means, at least in this regard, I have been liberated from being color-struck by these sick fools in the Political Establishment, and make no mistake about it, these fools are SICK!

Today is Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, and that means the “spell” that existed yesterday, that was cast by you, and me, about things that really matter, family, loved ones, and friends, had to be broken today by the owners of the system, taken away from the things that really matter, such as our families, and our friends.

Today, Friday, is “Black Friday,” the day for the continuation of spending, which is important to "them," the funeral day of the nation's Thanksgiving celebration, which was the celebration of those things which are really at the very height of importance in this country. 

Those things were the things that were really celebrated yesterday.

Now, it is back to celebrating that which marketers direct us into believing are more important, more real, that which is more real, more important, to them, using our greed, our pride, and our selfishness against us.  They do so, to, in effect, guide us away from that which is most important, i.e., family and friends, to guide us out of the rest of our money, heading toward the Christmas and New Year Holidays.

(Do you really have to be told why you start off each year broke?!)

You, like me, saw Thanksgiving yesterday as a day to give thanks, but let me tell you how “Wall Street” saw it.

I’ll put it in the form of a question: 

How much chicken do you think Colonel Sanders sold yesterday? 

Let me put the answer in the form of a statement:

President Joe Biden didn’t pardon any chickens yesterday.  Nobody ate chicken yesterday.  And nobody ate steak, and in the case of the latter, it was not the price this time. 

Biden pardoned a turkey on Thanksgiving, and that turkey was not Attorney General Merrick Garland.  

He was not pardoned (whew!).

Hopefully, then, Merrick Garland will be on his way to jail on “Day One,” which he should be if Donald Trump makes good on his promise to be a “dictator on Day 1.”

Trump, of course, won’t be a dictator on "Day 1," by the way, because if he really intended to be a dictator, he had four years to do it, from 2017-2021, and didn’t, so forget about this pretended outrage, and theatrical “fear,” by those on the Left, engaging in another political projection, another political, and economic, distraction.

While I am not for any aspect of dictatorship, it is not dictatorship when you are enforcing the law against law-breakers, and Merrick Garland is most definitely a law-breaker.

The Biden administration is full of law-breakers, starting with Joe Biden!

This man is the most corrupt President in this nation’s history.  He will not be doing any jail time because the American political justice system is corrupt to its core, and in order to pursue justice against law-breakers, the justice system would have to first pursue justice against its “own self.”

Let me see this crooked government in Washington put the whole system of justice in jail.  It would have to start with Washington because Joe Biden is in Washington, but it wouldn’t end with Joe Biden, in Washington.

Lest we forget, we are not talking about Las Vegas here.

We are talking here about the nation’s capital, the cesspool of this country.   What happens in Washington, unfortunately, does not stay in Washington.  It affects everybody in the country. . 

Thanksgiving was yesterday; it ended yesterday.

Today, it is back to business as usual, the celebration of, and the appeal to, our greed.

A caller to my podcast program Monday asked when, and where, does this “law-fare” against this country end.

The answer is that it ends with the enforcement of the law in this country, rather than using the law to go after political opponents, and it ends when we stop electing gangsters to government.

It will not end before that.

(Tomorrow, part 2, “Sociopaths, and psychopaths, at the switch”)

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George Moss often appears on Metro Flint News/Talk Radio via The Morning Gazette Radio Show weekday mornings from 8 am until 9:30 am. He's a retired administrator from the Beecher school district who also worked for many years at the University of Michigan-Flint. He hosts a weekly TV show via All Points TV. 

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Monday, Dec. 2, 2024

Flint's Coney Island progenitor passed. 

Angelo was one of the three main Coney restaurant owners that welcomed me into the Coney business.  Flint definitely lost a gem of a guy!   

My prayers and condolences to his family and all that knew him. He'll be sorely missed! 

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Marty Embry is a former administrator in the Flint school district. He was the star center on two of the old Flint Central's state championship teams under legendary Coach Stan Gooch, then went on to star at DePaul University before playing professionally overseas.

Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024

Today, protestors erected a 15-foot inflatable golden calf that looks like President Trump on the National Mall in Washington D.C.

The group, so-called "Faithful America," said they did it to protest Family Research Council's Pray Vote Stand Summit which starts tomorrow.

Unwittingly, this was a prophetic act by this anti-Christian organization. At this year's Pray Vote Stand Summit, I believe we will be tearing down idols and strongholds that have their grip on our nation, leading us down a path of spiritual and political destruction.

In a statement about the display, the group's executive director Rev. Nathan Empsall claims that FRC is "replacing Christ with Trump and his pledge to be a vengeful dictator on day one," and that we are "embracing his conspiracy theories, cruelty, and January 6-style violence of far-right Christian nationalism."

While this isn't the first time we've been accused of being Christian nationalists, nor is it the first time we've been protested, this claim couldn't be further from the truth.

Since our founding in 1983, Family Research Council has always served an audience of one -- God. We have always been beholden to biblical principles, not politicians or political parties.

Even though this group claims that we are "hijacking" the Christian faith, the irony is, the more accurately named "Faith-less" America and their idol would have been better suited for the Democratic Convention in Chicago, where, like the wayward Israelites offering up their children to Molech, Planned Parenthood performed nearly two dozen abortions.

While the inflatable has already been taken down by Capitol Police, the group said they plan to redo their display tomorrow outside of our Pray Vote Stand Summit.

We know that the enemy loves to try and stop God from working and with this protest coming right before our event kicks off, we know that God is on the move ahead of FRC's Pray Vote Stand Summit.

As our team prepares for this spiritually significant event, will you join us in prayer? Not only for the safety and well-being of our staff, speakers, and attendees, but that God would work powerfully through this event, rend the heavens, come down, and move in our land.

From this display to Iran's attack on Israel this week, we are living in truly unprecedented times.

For this reason, I am putting out an urgent call to Christians across the nation to appeal to heaven at this critical hour.

Our nation is in trouble and the only solution is a return to God.

The election this fall is crucial, but the reality is, it won't solve our nation's sin problem. It may even worsen it. The solution is deeper -- it's spiritual.

That's exactly why we're kicking off this year's Pray Vote Stand Summit with a special night of Prayer and Worship.

Now is not the time for believers to sit back as spectators, but to engage boldly by praying for God to work, voting for biblical values, and standing for truth in our increasingly hostile culture.

It's not too late to join us at the Pray Vote Stand Summit. To register, please visit prayvotestand.org or register at the door.

Thank you for standing with us in prayer at this urgent time.

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Washington Watch is a nationally syndicated show hosted by Tony Perkins that airs on Metro Flint News/Talk Radio daily at 6 am. He’s the fourth (and longest serving) President of the Family Research Council. He’s been President since 2003 and is one of the nation’s leading conservative voices.

 Received via e-mail on June 26, 2024

Dear Editor,

One year ago, I introduced the Equality Act to protect all Americans, including LGBTQ+ Americans, from employment, housing, and other forms of discrimination.

In many states, it's still legal to discriminate against LGBTQ+ Americans. No one should worry about losing their job or housing simply because of who they are or who they love.

We’ve made great progress, including the U.S. Supreme Court recognizing marriage equality in 2015. But Congress must act to protect all Americans, including LGBTQ+ Americans, from discrimination.

Sincerely,
Dan Kildee

United States Congressman

Flint Twp. Resident

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Mr. Moss, my last go-round teaching, I had a kid in my class wearing "Sons of Anarchy", clothing, and crying openly the entire period. 14 years old. I asked him what was wrong; no reply. Being as I have degrees in both Social Work AND Child Psychology, on top of 51 YEARS of experience, I reported him to the Administrator (who happened to be a Black female). She did me the courtesy of actually listening to me, but then, just "blew me off". Two weeks later, they took a gun off the kid. My considered opinion is that the trend toward, "tolerance", in addition to the fear of being sued, has created a climate in our schools where no one wants to "accuse", anyone's child of anything. I actually saw this coming way back in 1978, when I was still in college, working as a Substitute teacher to make money. "Laquanisha-with-the-Fingernails", has the entire public education system in America, everywhere, in total retreat.

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 · One of my all-time favorite players is gone at age 93. Willie Mays is in Heaven patrolling center field tonight in his return to baseball. 

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Saw him play at the old Crosley field in cincy in 1961

Andrew Clark Sr.

Omg ... I honestly thought he was dead in the '80s. He lived a long life

David McDonald

Willie Mays cartoon from 1972 Willie Mays cartoon from 1972:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DVqZABhHUoeE&ved=2ahUKEwi076_zzvOGAxXhfTABHeEzAQwQo7QBegQIBhAB&usg=AOvVaw1tx74n_323BqdyZeG3fev5

David McDonald

I remember watching that cartoon. Age 7.

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 ·50 days until Election Day … 5 more days until campaign signs can go up yet there are literally dozens all over the county. Are laws just not enforced any more? 

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I’ll take this one. Nope.

Craig Ochodnicky

Not for Demonrats 

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LETTER TOTHE EDITOR:

In a response to Richard Wagonlander’s Sept. 13 (Facebook) post about Mott Community College’s Board of Trustees, Flushing Mayor Joe Karlichek responded with some claims that merit further examination. I’m an English professor at Mott and a Flushing resident. 

Karlichek writes, “Why don’t you explain to the community how Dale Weighill, sitting County Commissioner & VP of Mott Community College is pushing for you to replace one of their board members? A guy who is paid $180,000-plus tax paid salary between both jobs.” 

Aside from this sounding like sour grapes because Karlichek lost an August primary to Weighill, Karlichek’s statement is misleading. Weighill is not “VP of Mott Community College.” Weighill is the Associate Vice President of Institutional Advancement. Mott has one VP, and that’s Jason Wilson (Vice President, Student Academic Success). Weighill is one of three associate VPs at Mott, which also has four assistant vice presidents. 

As for Weighill’s salary at Mott, he earns a going rate for his position and there’s nothing in his contract that prohibits him from holding public office. Karlichek writes, “Why don’t you explain to the community that MCC graduates (one) out of (five) students.”

Karlichek is using statistics to mislead, something we English teachers try to teach our students to avoid. The average two-year graduation rate for community colleges (CCs) in the United States is 13 percent. That puts Mott well above the national average, on par with many CCs in Michigan, and well ahead of many others in our state.

 Additionally, all CCs face obstacles to raising their two-year graduation rates. For one thing, many students transfer out of CCs to complete their education elsewhere without applying for graduation from their CC, which counts against the school's graduation rate  — even when those transfer students have earned 60 credits or more (the equivalent of an associate degree) from their CC.  Another factor is that CCs are commuter institutions that attract many non-traditional students, students who are 24 years old and older.

These students have family and work obligations that are difficult to navigate while attending college. (These students are heroes, by the way)

Because of the complexity of their lives, it is nearly impossible for students at CCs to graduate in two years.  Karlichek writes, “Why don’t you explain to the community why MCC, with the lowest graduating rate, has nearly the highest cost to attend?” Lowest graduation rate among what? Certainly not among CCs in Michigan, where several CCs have graduation rates in the teens. Highest cost among what? According to the State of Michigan, the average CC tuition and fees for one year is $4,816. At Mott, it’s $5,456. Of the 32 CCs in Michigan, 12 have average tuition of $5,000 or more, and there are five with tuition higher than Mott’s. And if Karlichek means that Mott’s the most expensive college in town, he’s way off base. UM-Flint’s tuition is roughly $27,000 per year. Kettering is $44,380 annually.

Karlichek writes, “Why don’t you explain to the community why MCC, who collects millions in federal funds is not meeting the accreditation expectations and standards?”

These are just lies.  Mott is a fully accredited institution in good standing with the Higher Learning Commission, its accrediting body.

Also, like every institution of higher education that receives federal monies, Mott submits to an independent audit annually for compliance with Title IV programs  — to which federal funds are linked. The audit also includes the college’s finances. Mott is in compliance and all funds from the federal government are accounted for.

Karlichek writes, “I can go on if you like, but these are just starters.”

A list of concerns with evidence would be welcome. Karlichek finishes with this: “MCC is in trouble. Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is insanity. Is this something you are subscribing to?”

In what kind of trouble is Mott in, exactly?  Mott’s not failing in any way.

The staff, administrators, and faculty members at Mott  — my colleagues  — are working constantly to ensure that Mott remains a going concern, and we take pride in being Genesee County's anchor institution.

 We’re always thinking of our obligations to stakeholders and how we can meet the needs of every community we serve. We’ve emerged from COVID a stronger, more resilient institution than we were before, and our enrollment numbers increase every semester.

 And for what it’s worth, no one at Mott does the same thing over and over again. We are constantly innovating, always striving to anticipate the needs of our students and stakeholders  — and we’re doing so in one of the poorest counties in the U.S., while being attacked by people who know absolutely nothing about how institutions of higher education are run.

 If Karlichek thinks that Mott’s in trouble, he needs to cite his sources.  Also for what it's worth, in his Sept. 13 post, Richard Wagonlander called out Mott Board of Trustees Chair Andy Everman for his sexism, which has been on display since January 2023, when Everman became chair. Thanks, Richard Wagonlander. I appreciate that.

  Paula Weston

Flushing Resident 

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LETTER TOTHE EDITOR:

I just finished watching the Mott College board of trustees' meeting of last night. The first word that popped into my head was "megalomania." I finally have a descriptive for Andy Everman. 

He is determined to create the "college of the future" at Mott College, without any reference to input from other strategic planners, or community input. When he spoke against the strategic planning process that was going forward at the college, he said he wanted to allow the new college president to lead the process. 

Alas! That was not his plan. It was to intrude his own megalomania and sense of power into planning for the future of Mott College. No one else has a role in the plan, unless they are nodding heads and applauding his posturing.

Some of the things he proposes may be good, or they may be unworkable. They may not fit into what the college is able to do, given available resources.  Most importantly, they do not include input from others outside his board cohort.  

The public has no role. The faculty has no role.

 The administration is expected to do the research and bring the vision back to him. It is the Andy Everman exploration of ways to force his vision on the rest of us. Sort of a dictatorship kind of thing. 

Remember to vote all the way down the ballot. BABs for Democracy will be endorsing three candidates next week. One of them will not be Andy Everman. We need to save Mott Community College.

 — Bobbie Clayton Walton

Davison Township Resident

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LETTER TOTHE EDITOR:

On Thursday, June 20 and Friday, June 21, 2024 communications from multiple sources were received by the Metro Police Authority regarding a planned protest at the Redwood Steakhouse which was to take place at 5 pm on June 21st. The sources indicated that there may be various reasons for the protest and the numbers were unknown.

The Metro Police Authority takes an operational approach of proactive policing whenever possible. This is equally important for planned or special events since our resources are limited. By planning for such events pubic safety can be maintained more effectively and efficiently.

In order to effectively maintain the safety for those participating in the protest as well as vehicular traffic and surrounding businesses it is vital that we are able to clearly define where a protest can lawfully occur. This information was relayed to the protest organizer on Friday, June 21st prior to the start of the protest. The protest occurred without incident and public safety for all was maintained.

Matt Bade, Police Chief

Metro Police Authority

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LETTER TOTHE EDITOR:

Dear Genesee Township Residents: 

After 12 years of serving at the township first as your Chief of Police,  and the past eight years as your elected treasurer, I’ve decided to retire and will not be seeking re-election. As police chief I worked to protect your families safety and as treasurer I have worked to protect and grow the township’s financial resources. 

My son Andrew Sorensen is now seeking the office of treasurer to replace me. Andrew shares my philosophy of finances and public service and will maintain the high level of service we provide at the township treasury office.

Andrew has an advanced college degree, has served several years on the planning commission for the City of Mt. Morris, has worked at the Flint Public Library for several years,  and he is currently serving as Deputy Treasurer for Genesee Township.

Andrew’s experience in all these areas of public service will give him the advantage of being able to perform his duties at the highest level on day one of his term in office, and he will bring fresh new ideas as the next generation as an elected official

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Please vote for Andrew Sorensen on August 6th for Genesee Township Treasurer.

Tod Sorensen

Former Genesee Township Police Chief

Outgoing Genesee Township Treasurer

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THE MAYOR OF FLINT is doing a great job, just fabulous. Flint has never looked so good and all these new jobs are exciting. He says crime is down, too. Four on the council love him, four hate him. I don't get the haters. Maybe all of them want to run for Mayor next time and they are trying to make him look bad.

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WOW. I was shocked by your front page story today (Tuesday, June 25, 2024) about the proposed Mega Site in Mundy Township. It was a lengthy and in-depth report into the controversy out there. I live nearby in Swartz Creek and now intend to get involved to stop the Flint Genesee Group from getting $250 million of our tax dollars without telling anyone what they will be doing with all that cash. How can that happen? Let them use the $10 million they've already received but don't be bringing factories that will pollute our area!

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TONYA KETZLER thinks she will get sued for opposing the Mega Site. Are you kidding me. You must have misquoted her. Otherwise, she needs to be thrown out of office. I hope someone is running against her for Mundy Township Supervisor.

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THANKS FOR MAKING PUBLIC what's going on with the Mega Site in Mundy Township. Your story about Monday night's (June 24, 2024) meeting is the first media report that's in-depth with facts and information on how they are trying to use our tax dollars to do all this in secret. They will tell us what they're going to build after they get $250 million more of our tax dollars? Are you serious.

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Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024

The Genesee County Election Commission hasn't yet scheduled a hearing date on recall language submitted against Flint's 8th Ward city councilman. I've advised Lisa Pasjberg that her language is dead on arrival to get rid of Dennis Pfeiffer as her representative on the Flint City Council.

Her language says: "Councilman Dennis Pfeiffer was censured by the city council for calling another member a 'fake ass Republican'  another a 'big piece of shit' and told other colleagues to shut up." 

She didn't like it that our front page story revealing her recall effort noted that language must be clear and concise. We quoted two English teachers as saying her language was a "run on sentence" and "completely illiterate."

Not our words. Words of people who specialize in determining "clarity" which also goes to words being spelled incorrectly or a comma being in the wrong place. Blunders that render denials at hearings in front of election commissions tasked with ruling on language submitted in recall attempts anywhere in our state.

So my opinion expressed here today in this space where I spew my opinions is that her recall language is dead on arrival. It must be rejected under state law.

The facts cited in a news story on our front page a few days ago is that two English teachers we consulted say it's not "clear and concise" because it's a "run on sentence" and "completely illiterate."

The last hearing on a recall attempt earlier this month in front of the local election commission was to review eight sets of language submitted to recall Flint Mayor Sheldon Neeley. I didn't bother to read any of it because the address of the lady behind the effort lived in Flint Township, not the City of Flint. I said so on the radio the very next day after looking her up because I had never heard of her.

I only exchanged texts with Lisa Pasjberg via Messenger earlier today when inviting her to appear on The Morning Gazette Radio Show to explain why she wants to dump Councilman Pfeiffer. Her profile on Facebook says she works for the Flint Registry and that's all I know about her except that she isn't very good at grammar.

Lisa rejected my interview invitation. 

Probably needs to brush up on her English skills before going public on the radio.

One question I wanted to ask was this: With all our tax dollars being dumped into work being done at the Flint Registry, I'm surprised how the boss there can allow one of the organization's employees to be involved in politics. What do you think? Drop me a message on my Hot Line at (810) 771-8421, find me on Facebook and drop me a note via Messenger or simply e-mail me at morninggazetteradioshow@gmail.com.

How do I know tax dollars are going into the Flint Registry? How about $39 million since 2016?

I'd like a report on what they've done with all that cash. I do know they are certainly not teaching any English classes to the employees.

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Mike Killbreath appears on Metro Flint News/Talk Radio via The Morning Gazette Radio Show weekday mornings from 8 am until 9:30 am. He's an award-winning newspaper columnist and investigative reporter who is the former long-time owner of the local Metro Flint area chain of 14 community newspapers. This fall marks his 50th year as a journalist. He also hosts a new weekly national TV show known as The American Crusaders on cable TV and various OTT TV live streaming platforms.

Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024

THERE WAS AN INSURRECTION WHICH TOOK PLACE IN THIS COUNTRY, BUT IT WAS NOT ON  “JANUARY 6,” THE INSURRECTION WAS ON NOVEMBER 3, 2020 WITH THE STOLEN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

 (Part 3 of a 3-part series, “Joe Biden should be impeached in the House, and tried in the Senate, convicted in the Senate, therein removed from office, and then tried in a civil court for treason.  General Mark Milley should have been court-martialed for treason, for his own role in the treasonous debacle in Afghanistan.”)

The above subtitle, admittedly, is a long subtitle, the purpose of which is to, first, point out what it takes for a President of the United States, or a former President of the United States, to be placed on trial for what he did, or didn’t do, while in the presidential office.  

The purpose for the length of the subtitle is also to link the charge of treason against Joe Biden to the charge of treason against the now retired former head of the Pentagon, General Mark Milley. 

Both of these political scoundrels, Biden and Milley, belong in federal prison for treason against this country, based upon their actions in the Afghanistan war.

We have traitors in every corridor of power in the federal government, in Washington, but I will limit the reach here to the arch traitors in the Executive Branch, although this treason against this country is more widespread than just the treason in the Executive Branch of government, much more widespread than that.

Let me start with correcting what is an egregious misunderstanding of what the Constitution requires for putting a President of the United States, or a former President of the United States, on trial in a court of law for what he did, or didn’t do, while in the presidential office.  

There is a need first and foremost to correct this outrageously incoherent misunderstanding of these justices on the Supreme Court who are now seeking to determine the extent of a President’s immunity from prosecution. 

I can save them some time; there is no presidential immunity from prosecution.

The very idea is not only absurd and outrageous, it is blasphemous to the rule of law, and to the Constitution which is the "ruler" of the law in this country, not these Justices on the Supreme Court.

What it takes to make a formal charge against a President, or a former President, in a court of law for what the President did, or didn’t do, while in office, according to the Constitution, is the President's impeachment in the House, and the President's conviction in the Senate based upon specific charges that are clearly stated in Article II, Section 4 of the United States Constitution.

I will pause here to tell these lawyers like Alan Dershowitz, Laurence Tribe, and the rest of them that they are misrepresenting the Constitution in stating that Article II, Section 4's provisions are about impeachment.

It's a common mistake, and I want every constitutional scholar in this country to pay attention, the Constitution does not specify any charges for impeachment.  The charges listed in Article II, Section 4, are charges necessary for removal, not necessary for impeachment.  

No charges are specified for impeachment in the Constitution.

It is a mistake that has been made throughout this country’s history.  I am here to correct this egregious mistake!

There is so much that is wrong in this country, so much that is unconstitutional, placing a former President on trial in these kangaroo courts, for instance.

This judge in New York, Juan Merchan, is anxiously awaiting the presidential election returns before passing sentence on Donald Trump’s trial that was held in Merchan’s court.  

It’s a constitutional outrage that there was even a trial in Merchan's court.  And for judge Juan Merchan to believe he has sentencing authority in this case is grounds enough for his disbarment.  

This country has idiots like Juan Merchan who are in charge of the legal system in this country who are not dispensers of justice but destroyers of justice.in this country.

I ended part 2 by pointing out Joe Biden had planned to end the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan on the 20th anniversary of the 911 attack on this country, as if in celebration of this attack on this country, or maybe even worse, as a signal to Iranian leaders who have been empowered by the Biden administration, that the present leaders of this country are all in on these external attacks on this country.

There was such an outcry by the American against the choice of the 911 date for the completion of this country's withdrawal from Afghanistan that Joe Biden was forced to change the date. 

Still, the withdrawal was chaotic, a withdrawal which ended up providing cover for leaving $85 billion of military equipment behind, in the hands of the very Taliban extremists this country had engaged in battle for the last 20 years.

The American government ended up arming the Taliban soldiers that the United States’ soldiers had been sent to Afghanistan to fight.  No one was fired for it, no one was held to account. 

Go figure.

“None Dare Call It Treason,” but what other name is there for it?

Today, these foreign soldiers can fight us using our own weapons to do so. 

Google censors erased my earlier article on the subject from my computer screen several days ago in which I commented on what British General Richard Kemp said, which is that both Joe Biden and General Mark Milley should have been court-martialed for the way in which they handled America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan.

You can't court-martial a President, but I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment of the former British commander of British forces in Afghanistan.

If you thought it was strange for Joe Biden to withdraw the American military from Afghanistan before evacuating American citizens from the country, and evacuating Afghans who had helped allied soldiers, and before evacuating Muslim women who had cast aside their Burkas, if you thought the Biden strategy was strange, it was not only strange, it was treasonous, deliberately so.

No one should forget Joe Biden making a point of looking at this watch every time one of the 13 last fallen American soldiers in Afghanistan was brought off the plane in a casket, this man showing his disdain for their sacrifice.

Read chapter 9 of David Horowitz’s book, “Final Battle,” pages 171-190, for the full picture of this man's treason, to see more fully the kind of person Joe Biden is, a Swamp Rat who has been in Washington for 50 years, a politician who is mean, evil, and rotten to the core.   This man does not have the moral, legal, and political, authority to ask anyone to fight for this country. 

Free the political prisoners who were locked up without trial for protesting this man’s unlawful, fake election.

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George Moss often appears on Metro Flint News/Talk Radio via The Morning Gazette Radio Show weekday mornings from 8 am until 9:30 am. He's a retired administrator from the Beecher school district who also worked for many years at the University of Michigan-Flint. He hosts a weekly TV show via All Points TV. 

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The myth of the peaceful transfer of power

Friday, Nov. 29, 2024

Hey y'all, I was going to give flowers to a very deserving person in my life but my heart has led me in another direction. Can we talk for a minute?

 I won't keep you long. This has been heavy on my heart for a while now.   

I've lost a lot of friends over this election.

 I've been called an asshole, a racist, a dumb ass mindless Democrat, a puppet and a host of other names that I dont care to regurgitate. I responded in kind and I can assure you, my demeanor is quite different from that laid back person that you have come to know, love and respect.   

Don't get me wrong, I give it as good as I take it, but it takes a lot to bring it out. I make no excuses. This election brought out the worst of most of us, me included. Some of y'all were much worse than others! Lol  I take full responsibility for every word that I said. I even apologized to a few people, not out of guilt but moreso because I allowed them to get to me to react as I did.

It's time to move on. Here's the thing, though. Trump supporters are finding it easy to move on because your guy won.

Had he lost, things would've been drastically different. That's not supposition. It was all being laid out just in case he lost. The fake votes, the machines, the folks working the machines and so on. I am still not ok with Trump becoming the next president. As time goes on, I see exactly why he ran. Jail time was looming had he not run/won. He knew it. As a sitting president, the parameters change. I also see all of his cabinet selections and can't believe what I'm reading. Most are simply unqualified to lead those cabinet positions but the one that really got me...trying to bypass FBI background checks! Smh. But, I digress.

My point to this particular post is this; the true friends that I have, whether Democratic or Republican, are still my friends. We didn't and don't agree politically but the respect was never lost. I had to check some of my friends hard because they straddled a racial line and we're so disrespectful with their comments. Did I snap back? Absolutely! I make no apologies and I said what I said. I stand on it. 

It was my hope that they took a step back and simply assessed what was said. To assess WHY I commented the way that I commented. If you post something publicly, and I answer respectfully, but your friends check me and call me a racist...and you don't defend me...and you agree with your friend, you're just as bad as your friend. 

When I go after your friend and you side with the friend, well dammit, it is what it is. That's the same friend that will cut your throat but I'm the friend that would've given you bandages. 

The true friend will always defend your integrity... unquestionably defend you. So then, there are the folks that were more friendly than a true friend. Those are the fair weather friends that you just gotta let them go. They've shown you EXACTLY who they are and what they are about. You can't even be mad at them because they are showing you EXACTLY who they are. You just gotta accept it and move on.

I've been blessed to have the same core of friends from my childhood, high school, college and European experiences. It's still a relatively small circle. Win, lose or draw, they will always have my back. Never any doubt BUTTTT, this election was quite challenging with a few.

But guess what? We're still cool as penguins balls at the North Pole! 

Now, before y'all start bashing folks, it's not about that. It's not about Republicans versus Democrats anymore. I'm talking about people that you perceived as friends. You don't even know the number of folks that stayed silent and just observed everyone making fools of themselves for the whole world to see. 

I have quite a few that never said anything publicly but clearly they have a lot to say.   I'm just a guy that can't nor won't bite my tongue. I don't intentionally try to hurt another person's feelings.

When I hear so many vile and negative comments, it's just damn near impossible to stay silent.

I don't try to stay neutral. If I'm your friend, we ride together, we die  together, bad boys for life!

 That's how I roll. It's not in my DNA to be a fair weather friend. If we're cool...we're always going to be cool. If not...well, you'll know it almost immediately. You can see it all over my face long before I utter a single word. 

See, when folks call ALL Democrats idiots, dumb, mindless..i take offense to that, especially recognizing who they are actually supporting.

Yea, that was a Trump jab! I had to sneak one in!

Lol  So folks, if you have friends that you've been friends with for 30 years, don't let one single man or one election ruin that friendship. Y'all just had a political difference. You just gave Trump too much control over your life. I often had to say, "Let's agree to disagree and move on!"

If they chose to keep on with the BS, okay, I'm that guy. Never argue with a writer that loves research.

You'll never win. You'll only get more frustrated! Lol I could literally write a book on  the responses that I was getting, especially when I responded to factual information. I was also amazed at the number of folks that grew these humongous Internet nuts and felt that they could say whatever they wanted to say. Nah, that didn't work out well.

 You picked the right one. That day was your lucky day.  Now, let's hold the new president accountable. Keep your true friendships near and dear. Or, did your friend get exposed?

 Y'all stay safe folks. Have a safe holiday. By the way, do folks know the true history of Thanksgiving? Asking for a native American friend.

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Marty Embry is a former administrator in the Flint school district. He was the star center on two of the old Flint Central's state championship teams under legendary Coach Stan Gooch, then went on to star at DePaul University before playing professionally overseas.

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