Tagged: David Agema

Politics & Government
7:33 pm
Mon April 8, 2013

Michigan governor declines to say if GOP official should resign over Facebook post

Credit Steve Carmody/Michigan Radio
Gov. Rick Snyder (R-MI) (file photo)

LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Gov. Rick Snyder won't say whether a Michigan member of the Republican National Committee should resign for posting an article critical of gay people on Facebook.

The Republican governor told reporters Monday that he's "not going to get in the middle of all that." Snyder adds that discrimination of any kind is inappropriate and "it's important we stand up for all people."

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Politics
5:50 pm
Tue August 16, 2011

Detroit legislator, Muslim groups call proposed state law "polarizing" and "racist"

Rashida Tlaib

The only Muslim in the Michigan state legislature says a bill that targets “foreign laws” is xenophobic political pandering, and offensive to the Muslim community.

Detroit State Representative Rashida Tlaib blasted the bill that aims to “restrict the application of foreign laws.”

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