today i’ll be working at the polls for our primary
please make sure to vote
with your heart and your mind
if you haven’t already
it can make all the difference
primaries matter.
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‘nobody will ever deprive the american people of the right to vote except the american people themselves
and the only way they could do that is by not voting.’
-franklin d. roosevelt
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art credit: shepard fairey
i think we all get news overload now and then
getting puffy is not good for anyone
good to step away as needed.
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‘winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing.
okay, now you’re the mayor.
the bad news is, now you’re the mayor.’
*clint eastwood, american actor, director, mayor
*Clint Eastwood made a successful foray into elected politics. He won election as mayor in April 1986 (until 1988), of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California (population 4,000), small town and artists’ community on the Monterey Peninsula.
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image credit: scott metzger
“children don’t vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them.”
-marian wright edelman
American activist for civil rights and children’s rights,
Founder and President Emerita of the Children’s Defense Fund.
VOTE
another day, another rally!
big gretch
our governor
and
pete buttigieg
transportation secretary/new michigander
come to campus
to inspire and rally the troops.
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“we can’t slow up because of our love for democracy and our love for america.”
-dr. martin luther king, jr.
a go blue day in michigan:
morning- governor whitmer and obama (blue state rally)
evening- university of michigan vs. michigan state rivalry football game (go blue!)
“on a good day everybody can beat everybody.”
-chris hughton
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photo credit: michigan stadium, fox sports
JFK in an open Studebaker on State Street in Ann Arbor – Oct. 1960
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happy president’s day to one of my favorites
whose words still ring true
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hoping we are relatives somewhere down the line
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“democracy is never a final achievement. it is a call to an untiring effort.”
-john f. kennedy
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credit: photo from the (Bentley Historical Society)
memorial at u.s. capitol
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“great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
-albert einstein
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photo credit: reuters, carlos barria
Peaches the Nigerian dwarf goat. Peaches is the mother of two sets of triplets and a set of twins. She has raised all the kids on her own, demonstrating her can-do spirit. She’s quiet and friendly unless she needs to assert herself and is rarely in a baaaaad mood.
P.S. Wiggles the Chinchilla got the most votes and won by a hair.
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credit: lisa clair, hamlet hub
one of these folks has been around for awhile and has always been ahead of his time.
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“ideas shape the course of history.”
-john maynard keynes
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image credit: british medieval history
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