Michigan’s First District Congressional Race News

As part of my “(I) report, you decide” on the First District Congressional Race, I am being as neutral as I possibly can.  Here’s the deal.  I am very opinionated.  If you are not new to this blog and don’t know I am opinionated, and a bit smart-ass, I must ask what you are smoking?  While I am opinionated and throughout the Presidential Primary I was biased about the candidates and had my favorites, one at a time . The deal with the congressional race is that at current I feel it is too personal for me to pick a candidate at this moment.  In the Presidential Primary I had never met any of the candidates before the primary, nor any of the RNC party officials.  I have been involved in party politics, I know First District GOP party officials.  I like all three of the congressional candidates.  There are things I like about each of them.   There are things I don’t like about them.  This is why I will be neutral and give the most unbiased info, along with being fair to each candidate, so you, the voter in the First District can form your own opinions.

Hooper, Goldthorpe debate in race for 1st District GOP nod

BOYNE CITY — Linda Goldthorpe and Don Hooper both bring something old and something new to the race to face Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Menominee, in November.

This is the third race for Hooper, 76, who hopes his conservative ideas will be enough to win his party’s support. Goldthorpe, on the other hand, pulls more from the Ron Paul school of thought, and is relying on her years of work as a pro bono lawyer fighting big government. Both are Upper Peninsula natives.

While they advocated for less government control in their first scheduled GOP debate on Saturday night at Boyne City High School, the pair differed most on the Iraq War.

“I never understood how our oil got under their sand,” said Goldthorpe, 48, to the audience of about 60, while many more tuned into the debate streamed online by its sponsor WJML. “We’re over there protecting big business.” Goldthorpe went on to call the war “inappropriate,” and said she continues to advocate for a quick exit strategy. [more @ http://www.gaylordheraldtimes.com/articles/2008/05/14/news/local_news/doc4829e6ec9c84b683544152.txt]

I will keep y’all updated on all the news about all three candidates.  There is a devious part of me that would like to have fun and really mess with the system and post about Bart Stupak.  But I don’t have time.