GUV GAINS: A Detroit Free Press poll published Sunday has Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm slightly ahead of Republican Dick DeVos, 49 to 41 percent, with 10 percent listed as “other/not sure.” A similar August poll had the race about even.
BARELY CIVIL: In Michigan’s other big race, Republican challenger Mike Bouchard, trailing in polls, accused Sen. Debbie Stabenow of flip-flopping on issues. “She says one thing here and does another thing in Washington,” Bouchard asserted during their first debate Sunday. Said Stabenow after the debate: “I didn’t see any ideas coming from my opponent. Just a lot of random attacks.”
BAN BOOSTER: Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a likely 2008 Republican presidential candidate, joined a “Liberty Sunday” rally to denounce gay marriage. Broadcast to churches nationally, the event was held in Massachusetts, the only state to legalize same-sex marriage. Eight states, including Wisconsin, will vote in November on constitutional amendments to ban it.
YOU’RE ON YOUR OWN: National Republicans are shifting campaign money away from Sen. Mike DeWine of Ohio to concentrate on races where they think their chances are better, The New York Times reports.
EYEFUL: Rick Magnuson, a candidate for sheriff of Pitkin County, Colo., says a sexually suggestive film he made of himself was performance art and should not disqualify him from the office. “If you look at it, it is probably G-rated,” he said Sunday. “A beer commercial is more explicit than this.”
![The Ravinia Festival Association filed a motion to dismiss the complaint by Karen Ettelson, former member of the organization’s Women’s Board, who sued the musical festival nonprofit and it’s Board of Trustees for “defamatory conduct,” along with seven other counts, after the Board of Trustees expunged her from the working board for an alleged conduct violation. The motion from the music non-profit, which hosts an annual music festival of the same name each summer, argues the lawsuit should be dismissed because there is no justified reason for the courts to intervene with Ettelson’s volunteer status, board members are immune from […]](https://www.chicagotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Lake-County-News-Sun.jpg?w=620 "The Ravinia Festival Association filed a motion to dismiss the complaint by Karen Ettelson, former member of the organization’s Women’s Board, who sued the musical festival nonprofit and it’s Board of Trustees for “defamatory conduct,” along with seven other counts, after the Board of Trustees expunged her from the working board for an alleged conduct violation. The motion from the music non-profit, which hosts an annual music festival of the same name each summer, argues the lawsuit should be dismissed because there is no justified reason for the courts to intervene with Ettelson’s volunteer status, board members are immune from […]")
