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SPMI Files Ballot Access Legal Challenge and 2010 Candidate Nominations
SOCIALIST PARTY FILES LEGAL CHALLENGE TO MICHIGAN BALLOT ACCESS RULES; CERTIFIES 2010 CANDIDATE NOMINATIONS TO STATE BUREAU OF ELECTIONS

For Immediate Release
Wednesday, July 28th 2010

Contact:
Matt Erard, State Chair, Socialist Party of Michigan
(248) 765-1605
spmi@spmichigan.org
www.spmichigan.org
www.socialistparty-usa.org

LANSING - The Socialist Party of Michigan (SPMI), MI state party affiliate of the Socialist Party USA, filed the State-prescribed candidate nomination and acceptance certificates for seven party candidates for federal and state office on Monday, following its official selection of such candidates at its 2010 state nominating convention held in Ann Arbor last Saturday.

Though decades have passed since the last time the Michigan Secretary of State’s office formally recognized the Socialist Party’s qualification to nominate candidates for any partisan elections in the state , the Party formally filed its nomination certificates with the Secretary of State's Bureau of Elections office this year in order to concord with a lawsuit the Party filed in the state’s 30th Circuit Court (Ingham County) last Wednesday against Michigan Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land, in her official capacity; challenging the constitutionality of the present Michigan statute governing political party ballot access (M.C.L. § 168.685) and seeking a court order requiring the Secretary of State’s office to once again provide a properly labeled party column on the Michigan ballot listing the Socialist Party’s nominees. The case, Socialist Party of Michigan, et al. v. Land (#10-867-CZ) is currently pending an August hearing before the court’s chief judge, Hon. William E. Collette.



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Visit the Socialist Party booth at the 2010 Ann Arbor Art Fair - July 21st - 24th
For the third year in a row, the Socialist Party of Michigan is holding an information booth, packed with SP literature, statements, and merchandise, in the Non-Profits Section of the Ann Arbor Art Fair.

The Ann Arbor Art Fair Non-Profits section is located on Liberty St. between 5th Ave. and Division St. The Socialist Party booth is Non-Profits section booth number 58, composed of a Green gazebo displaying a Socialist Party USA banner across the front, and located directly across the street from the Seva restaurant.



Ann Arbor Art Fair/SPMI Booth Hours:
Wednesday July 21st: 10AM - 9PM
Thursday July 22nd: 10AM - 9PM
Friday July 23rd: 10AM - 9PM
Saturday July 24th: 10AM - 6PM
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Join the Socialist Party in Detroit, June 19th-26th!
Leading up to the United States Social Forum converging in Detroit this June, the Socialist Party of Michigan and Detroit Socialist Party will host the Summer 2010 meeting of the Socialist Party USA National Committee, taking place on June 19th-20th at Detroit's historic Leland hotel. Convening at 10AM on both days, the SP National Committee meeting will hold session through the early evening of Saturday the 19th, and mid-afternoon of Sunday the 20th, in the main hotel conference room (entrance through the main lobby). Members of the public who are interested in observing the meeting, or any portion thereof, are welcome to attend. The Leland hotel is located at 400 Bagley St., Detroit, MI 48226, at the intersection of Bagley St. and Cass Ave.

Following the upcoming SP National Committee meeting, Socialist Party members from around the country will join tens of thousands of radical activists at the United States Social Forum, taking place at numerous Downtown and Midtown Detroit locations from June 22nd-26th. During the Social Forum, the Socialist Party will be sponsoring a total of four official USSF workshops. Details on the SP USSF workshops are below...

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Statewide Smoking Ban Not a Socialist Measure, Say Michigan's Socialists
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Sat. May 1st 2010

LANSING - Confuting the widespread characterization of Michigan’s looming workplace smoking ban as a ‘socialist measure,’ by many of the new law’s critics throughout the state, the Socialist Party of Michigan officially resolved to take an opposing stance toward the ban at the April meeting of its State Executive Committee on Wednesday.

Among the 38 states to have enacted similar laws thus far, Michigan’s new smoking law, set to take effect this Saturday May 1st, is among the most restrictive – prohibiting smoking and related paraphernalia in all public places occupied by even a single employee, including the outdoor patios and private rooms of all restaurants, bars, and hotels, while permitting partial exemptions to be granted only to pre-existing cigar bars, tobacco specialty shops, and the gaming floors of Detroit’s three casinos.

While expressing concern about the overreaching scope of the law’s prohibitions, Michigan’s Socialists also sought to challenge common, and increasingly echoed, misperceptions about the kind of political and economic change that socialists actually stand for.

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