There's a steady light flickering in what has been the otherwise dark Fifth District in the State of Michigan.
General Motors was forced to leave Flint, Michigan in the dark when they unwittingly became Government Motors, forced by the hand of the Obama administration. In Flint, GM has shuttered 13 of 15 plants in a dreary landscape where one out of five homes has been abandoned in neighbourhoods trying to hold it together in the middle of a deepening recession.
On August 4th came the disheartening news that GM will build a $500-million plant in Mexico and thus give needed manufacturing jobs not to Americans, but to Mexicans.
It is in this decimated area that 80,000 manufacturing jobs have been reduced to 8,000.
Violence has dominated the city where the mighty job-providing General Motors was born. The FBI has named the once thriving Flint as America's sixth most violent city. The fifth district is also home to Saginaw City, consistently ranked as number one for violent crime by the FBI--a status held by Saginaw since 2003.
Michigan has the highest unemployment in the nation. It's no wonder its voters are hungry for a new Congressman with a commitment to turn things around.
Michigan hopes are riding on a young, healthy 53-year-old business dynamo with a track record for turning things around. His name is John Kupiec and his achievements to date and still counting include turning an in-the-red, bankrupt advertising company back into the black. Ditto for a child center (since sold to an enterprising group). The energetic Kupiec is also the roll-up-the-sleeves producer of a 400-acre, working crop farm. A man who says what he means and does what he says, Kupiec is a lifelong member of the NRA; is firmly pro life and comes with a yearning to expose the hypocrisy of Democrats, such as the time-to-go Dale Kildee, who said nary a word when GM announced its plans to build its $500-million plant in Mexico.
Citizens in Michigan's fifth district are rooting for John Kupiec and some believe that their devastated district could prove to be another Scott Brown or Chris Christie triumph for the Republican Party.
The Kupiec track to Election Day victory is a sound one as history was made in Michigan's fifth congressional district on Election Day August 3, 2010.
"Never before have Republican votes nearly equaled those cast for Democrats but this is exactly what happened in this traditionally Democrat stronghold," Renee Gilroy told Canada Free Press (CFP). "On this record-shattering day, Republicans received 47.1% of the vote instead of their usual 25% and our current Congressman, 81-year-old Dale Kildee, was challenged by Scott Withers, an unknown Democrat who received 22% of Democrat votes. Mr. Withers says the Chairman of the Democrat Party in Lansing told him to stay out of the race; that the fifth district's seat belonged to Dale Kildee but Michiganders resoundingly said no, it's the people's seat. Of 83,828 votes cast, Kildee only received 34,782. If only 3% of Democrat voters switch over to John Kupiec in November, he will be victorious."
Voters are on to Kildee who has always claimed to be pro life, yet he co-authored HR3200, the house version of ObamaCare. He is hiding behind the Hyde amendment, which has been shown to be worthless as $160,000 taxpayer dollars were recently funneled to Pennsylvania for abortions.
Michigan has a special place in the heart of this writer ever since meeting Cathy Tyler, Jean Wheaton and Mary Ann Vaughan at the 9/12 Project. They were on hand when Steve Ross, Chairman of the Southeast Michigan 9/12 Project invited me to address his group in Royal Oak, Mi last June, where I met the hard-working Renee Gilroy, who is now Deputy Press Secretary for John Kupiec.
The last words I heard when stepping away from the speaker's podium were the ones that Cathy Tyler led the crowd of about 200 to shout, the same words with which I had ended my address: "USA!" "USA!"
I left the Flint area with a saddened heart to see this once thriving city so Dem devastated.
The news from Renee Gilroy shows that the lights are destined to come back on in Michigan's fifth district.
Go, Michigan, go!
You can hear John Kupiec on Renee Gilroy's radio show here.
Judi McLeod——
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-- Judi McLeod, Founder, Owner and Editor of Canada Free Press, is an award-winning journalist with more than 30 years’ experience in the print and online media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard. Her work has appeared throughout the ‘Net, including on Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.
