Please Join the Honorable Patrick Kennedy
and Dan Kildee For Coffee

Thursday, March 1st
2:00-3:00 p.m.

Court Street Cafe
100 South Michigan Avenue]
Saginaw, MI 48602

This event is free and light refreshments will be provided.

RSVP via Facebook Questions? Please contact andy@dankildee.com or call 810-625-0861

Please join the
Saginaw Area Democratic Club
for a
Pancake Breakfast!

Saturday, March 17, 2012
8:00am - 11:00am

S.E.I.U. Hall
1420 S. Michigan Avenue

Adults: $10
Couples: $15
Children under 12: $5

Contact Mary Harmon mharmon77@gmail.com or 989-795-2139

Tickets sold at the door!!

Please join
Senator Carl Levin and the SCDP
Friday February 24, 2012
(Not open to the public)  

Saginaw County Democratic Party Headquarters
122 N. Michigan
Saginaw, MI  48602

7:30-8:30 AM 

Start your day with a cup of coffee with Senator Carl Levin

RSVP to Kitty Packard by Wednesday February 22, 2012
kitpack726@yahoo.com

This is not a fundraiser.  Please join us.

The SCDP would like to extend a HUGE thank you to Tim and Carrie Burns for hosting such an extremely successful event!! It was attended by many wonderful Stabenow supporters.

Again, thank you to all who attended and a big thank you to Senator Stabenow for attending!

To view some of the pictures from the event, please click here.

Check out the new DNC Ad: Don't bet against America, Mitt -

While Mitt Romney continues to struggle in Michigan's polls and is twisting himself into a pretzel trying to explain what exactly he meant by the words "let Detroit go bankrupt," we got the welcome news today that GM made its biggest profit ever in 2011. And it wouldn't have happened if President Obama hadn't had the courage to bet on the American auto industry.

So here's the lesson, Mr. Romney: Don't bet against America. Don't bet against the American auto industry. And definitely don't bet against the American worker.

The Saginaw News:

SAGINAW -- In light of a Valentine's Day Detroit News op-ed by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, Rep. Stacy Erwin Oakes, D-Saginaw, issued a statement Wednesday.

"As a professed 'son of Detroit,' Romney clearly misses the point of what it is about his perspective that vexes the Michigan electorate," said Oakes. "Around Saginaw, and indeed the state of Michigan, we all know that without the support of the federal government, both GM and Chrysler would have imploded into a free-fall, leaving missions -- from blue-collar workers, assembly line, to white-collar from office, to suppliers, distributors, etc. -- without jobs.

Romney said his father, George Romney, become president of American Motors in 1954. He grew up watching the auto industry flourish, before it eventually "floundered."

Instead of doing the "right thing," Romney wrote that President Barack Obama caved to powerful union bosses whose members "donated millions" to Obama's presidential campaign. The government bailed out their jobs and gave them ownership stakes in Chrysler and General Motors Corp., said Romney.

The White House-hopeful said he would have preferred a "managed bankruptcy," but Oakes believes the federal intervention was necessary to maintain "jobs with fair wages and benefits which one can support a family with dignity."

"Now GM and Chrysler are back in the saddle and are making record sales and profits despite the bellicose groaning of the Republican candidates for president," Oakes said. "As for Romney, we will never simply forget his clarion call to 'Let Detroit go bankrupt.'"

The Michigan Democratic State Central Committee has voted to allow Democrats to participate in both the presidential primary on February 28th and the MDP’s caucuses on May 5th. A party rule prevented Democrats from voting in both. Democrats decided last year not to participate in the presidential primary in order to save taxpayers $10 million. The MDP will instead hold presidential caucuses at its own expense.

“Today’s action by the MDSCC will help to alleviate confusion caused by Ruth Johnson’s partisan mischief,” MDP Chair Mark Brewer said. “Johnson purposely placed President Obama’s name on the ballot to confuse and disenfranchise Democratic voters. In order to ensure all Democrats have the opportunity to participate, the MDSCC has decided to allow Democrats to vote in both.”

Pete Hoekstra is launching attacks about the national debt–and his attacks couldn’t be more hypocritical. While in Congress, Hoekstra voted for the Wall Street bailout, budget busting tax cuts for millionairs and billionaires, giveaways to special interests and trillions more in deficit spending. Pete Hoekstra says he’s “Pete Spend-it-not”–he’s actually Pete-Spend-a-lot.

Supported Wall Street Bailout Hoekstra Voted for the $700 Billion Wall Street Bailout. In 2008, Hoekstra voted for the $700 billion Wall Street bailout. [House Vote #681, 10/3/2008]

Supported Raising Debt Limit And Trillions of Dollars in Budget-Busting Deficit Increases Hoekstra Rubberstamped Bush Deficit-Busting Budgets. [House Vote #158, 5/18/2006; House Vote #149, 4/28/2005; House Vote #198, 5/19/2004; House Vote #141, 4/11/2003; House Vote #79, 3/20/2002]

Hoekstra Votes Increased the Debt by 46 Percent to $8.6 Trillion From 2002 to 2006. In 2002 the total national debt was $5.9 trillion. With Hoekstra’s votes for increased spending and unbalanced budgets, the federal debt has increased 46 percent, from approximately $5.6 trillion at the beginning of 2002 to an estimated $8.6 trillion at the end of 2006. [U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of Public Debt]

Hoekstra Voted to Increase Debt Limit at Least 5 Times. [House Vote #158, 5/18/2006; House Vote #536, 11/18/2004; House Vote #280, 6/22/2004; House Vote #198, 5/19/2004; House Vote #279, 6/27/2002]

Hoekstra Defended Votes For Increasing Debt Ceiling. Hoekstra “defended his own votes to increase the debt ceiling when he was in Congress, saying the country was ‘on a trajectory’ toward a balanced federal budget.” [Daily Tribune, 7/27/2011]

Learn more at: www.hoekstrahoax.com