Detriot:
A couple of days ago in this space, I ventured some reasons why Michigan voters so obviously disturbed by their state's current trajectory seem poised to re-elect virtually every incumbent on the Nov. 7 ballot.
But I neglected to mention one of the most powerful forces working to preserve our state's sorry status quo: the Michigan media.
Last Saturday, a front-page story in the New York Times chronicled how a once-promising Democratic challenger named Jim Marcinkowski became a nonstarter in his race to unseat U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, a three-term Republican from Brighton.
Marcinkowski is a deputy Royal Oak city attorney with what the Times describes as "a tough-guy resume -- Navy, CIA, teamster -- and the silvery haired presence of a Famous Guy you would swear you had seen before."
Last year, when U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California and other Democratic Party pooh-bahs recruited him, Marcinkowski looked like the party's best hope in Michigan's eighth congressional district since 2000, when Rogers beat Democratic state Sen. Dianne Byrum by a scant 88 votes.
But Marcinkowski had trouble raising money, prompting the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee to back off its own financing pledges. When the national party started ignoring Marcinkowski, the local media followed suit. As of Thursday, Marcinkowski's name hadn't appeared in either the Free Press or the Detroit News since the August primary.
Other congressional challengers from metro Detroit -- Nancy Skinner, Tony Trupiano and Robert Denison, who are running against Republican incumbents Joe Knollenberg, Thaddeus McCotter and Candice Miller, and Randell Shafer and Chad Miles, who are facing Democratic fixtures Sander Levin and John Conyers -- have been similarly ignored.
Let's all cheer for the "liberal" media in Detriot! Oh wait, it doesn't exist, sorry.
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