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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Please Noavi do.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Please Navid.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Fanlease noa be not littles fatal on your fanise say
god phanise Navi does hey, Darryl perleise, no be done.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Please not Jose Feliciano and Darryl Hall. Merry Christmas from
Michael Patrick Shields.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
You are married Christmas.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
I want to wish you a very Christma.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I want to wish you a merry Christmas.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
From the bottom a myro.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I want to wish you are married Christmas. I want
to win your Mary Grandma. I want to waste your
very christ Please, Dolly, do.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
You know it's Christmas when the Corona commercial comes on
with the palm trees in the evening and one of
them lights up with the holiday lights on it? Don't serve.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Please not me that Ptyn dott enjoy your family say that.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I want to waste you a very Christal. I'll waste
you are christ but I'll waste you a very Christmas.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
Brother Bottle, bring it down, fellas.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
I just I just want to say, I want to
wish you Garrold and your family. I'm merry, merry Christmas.
I had a lot of blessings on you and your
show and your family, and thank you for inviting me.
God bless you. I count my blessings and one of
(02:15):
them was hanging out with you.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Happy to hang out with all of you listening on
radio stations across the state of Michigan and worldwide ATMI
bigshow dot com. Speaking of worldwide, Pope Leo appeared at
an electronic music rave to mark the seventy fifth birthday
of Archbishop Bernard Bober. This was in Slovakia early in November.
(02:40):
We'll congratulations to the lasers in the spotlights and all
the rest of it. And he's in Lebanon and we'll
have coverage of that as well. Thank you very much.
By the way, let's I got a lot of things
I would like to talk to Dennis Lennox about the
freelance columnist and political strategists from northern Michigan who might
be buried in snowere areas. Right now, how about a
(03:01):
winter Wonderland report from where you are before we get
started throwing around the political discussion.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Well, hey, good morning, Michael Patrick. And before we can
wish each other a merry Christmas, we have to say
happy Advent, because of course yesterday was the first day
of Advent.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
That's very sweet of you to remind everybody. So we're
on the purple candle, and then it's purple, purple, pink,
purple as we make our way. Good afternoon, good evening,
whenever you might be listening to this program right now.
What did you think of the Transportation secretary telling everyone
before Thanksgiving that, you know, maybe you ought to stop
(03:38):
wearing your pajamas on the airplane and dress up a
little bit.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
You know, if that means that people stop wearing a
fong on the plane when they fly spirit, I think
that's probably a good thing. At the end of the day.
I'm not so it's going to make much of a difference.
Michael Patrick, I think that that fight was long ago lost.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
The dignity of travel is lost. You're saying people are
turning up, and that's what he really pointed out is
maybe they would behave better if they dress better, because
sometimes people are getting really and we see it in
videos now that everyone has a camera really cranked up
when they're up there in the skies.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
I think people would behave better on the plane if
they had more leg room, if the seats were wider,
if you could fly five hours across the country and
get an edible meal. I think the airlines have a
lot of responsibility in this as well. I mean, let's
face it, unless you're flying in the front of the plane,
(04:40):
it's pretty downright miserable in the back of the plane.
I mean, you might as well take a great home bus.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Across the country.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
I saw a video yesterday of a Delta pilot and
he was a selfie video that he made, and he
said that he and his co pilot are going to
fly from Detroit to Traverse City. That's the way he
said it. And he said, neither one of us have
ever flown in bey there, befo, it's going to be fun.
And then we're turning around, going back to Detroit and
onto Austin, Texas. But I said, thought, wow, if I
(05:12):
was with two pilots who'd never flown in there before,
given the weather that we're having, and he calls it
Traverse City, I don't know, that might make me nervous.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
I've heard that one before. I mean, I think General
Motors calls it, what this is, Chevy Traverse, So I
suppose that's understandable. But hey, you're talking to a guy
who lives in Topenavy. I've heard Toppena be pronounced every
way imaginable.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
So is that where you are now? And what is
the snow like?
Speaker 5 (05:38):
So you know, we didn't have a black Friday, we
had a snowed in Friday. We've picked up probably I
don't know, eleven to thirteen inches of snow in the
last two or three days. But more importantly, camp cold.
I mean it's like January or February weather here, and
it's supposed to be like that in the next five
(05:59):
to seven days. We're supposed to have record.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Colds WMKTAM and FM in northern Michigan. Dennis Lennox, Donald
Trump and this project. Now we're seeing that he's at
odds with the architect for the ballroom that he's building.
The architect says, there's a general rule that you're not
supposed to have the addition be bigger than the original property.
(06:23):
So at ninety thousand square feet, it would dwarf the
fifty five thousand square feet White House mansion. You've been there.
What do you make of that?
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Well, I guess that means we just got to make
the White House bigger. In all seriousness, I mean, I
think we eat a ballroom space. I've been to functions.
I would say I've probably been to a half dozen receptions.
I've never been to a dinner at the White House. Unfortunately,
I'm still waiting for maybe one of those invitations one day.
But it is a very small space, especially once you
(06:56):
take away the west wayne where all the offices are in,
take away the residents of the president and first family
on the upper floors. There really is, in fact no
ballroom in the current White House, and so they make
use of a variety of spaces. So we do need something.
I don't know if this is the solution or not.
(07:17):
I'll let the architectural experts hash this out, but what
I will say is, I think there's this misconception out
there that the White House is an old building. It
actually isn't. The White House was basically demolished by Harry
Truman in the late nineteen forties and build a new
So if you consider old nineteen forties, then yes it
(07:39):
is old, but there's very little outside of the exterior
walls from the original White House.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Speaking of old, the New York Times has an article
this weekend shorter Days signs of fatigue, Trump faces realities
of aging in office. The oldest person to be elected
to the presidency, So now they're on that about him,
that he's an old man.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
You know, look, I think the people who have comped
through introm syndrome. You know that the New York Times
is unfortunately too often they're not the party organ of
the Democrat Party, and you know they're they're putting out
this narrative, and of course i'ds so little bit ironic
because that's the narrative that Trump and Republicans used against Biden.
I just don't think it's a it's a true narrative.
I mean, Trump does more events, he has more press availabilities,
(08:25):
he's more transparent, for better or for worse. Sometimes maybe
he should be a little less transparent than any president
that I can ever think of it. So I just
don't think people actually believe.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
That to be true.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
We will continue with Dennis Lennox, the freelance columnist political
strategist in Northern Michigan and the world. That's Michael Patrick
Shields with you through the AT and T microphones. And remember,
we have a big jackpot, big, big, big seven hundred
and forty million dollar power ball tonight at Michigan Lottery
dot com or your local retailer seven hundred and forty million.
(09:00):
If you have it, then Chris on Christmas on a
one hundred and seventy five million and put you're on
an island just about anywhere. Wait a minute, it's fuzzy
math again. It's over seven hundred million in the power
ball tonight. Michael Patrick shields. You can get those tickets
(09:21):
at Meyer where you get more of the things you
want most, more local produce, more home to korb, more
free prescriptions, more importantly, you get them all for less
admire Why would you pay more? Dennis Lennox is a
freelance writer. He does a lot of traveling and writing,
and he's a political analyst. And it comes together here
(09:41):
that Harry Truman, who you mentioned as renovated, he's sort
of rebuilt the White House according to what you say.
He has spent one hundred and seventy five days of
his presidency in Key West at what was called the
Little White House. And Tony Cuthbert is going to be
making his first our trip to Key West. Now here's
a guy who made his first ever trip to Vegas
(10:03):
last year, so he's knocking off all the party spots,
but in March he's taking his family on spring break
to Key West. I don't know, Dennis, if you've been there,
obviously Truman has any advice for mister Cuthbert.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
Well, you know, maybe we can tag along too if
we all go in on the Lottel together tonight, right,
Michael Patrick, we can carry Tony's bags on Key West form.
You know I've been there once. I really liked a
restaurant called matt Stock Island Kitchen and Bar. Matt Stock
Island Kitchen.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
That's that the hotel we're staying at.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
So good call Dennis. Hey, there you go. I was
gonna say, you know, it's about ten minutes as I remember,
by car from the main drag in Key West, so
it's a little bit quieter. But it had the best
key line pie that I've ever had in my life
at matt Stock Island Kitchen and Bars. So there you go.
It's at the Perry Hotel if I remember correctly, not
(11:01):
to be confused with the Perry Hotel and Potoski.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
What a small world. Wow, amazing. Well you'll be able
to compare that key lime pie with Joe's Stonecrab Key
lime pie and see what you think. But you'll be
in the keys there for sure. I don't know if
mL l Rick has written in the Free Press Turkeys
and Lancing continue stuffing themselves with lobbyists. Largesse one lobbyist
(11:29):
through an engagement party for a state rep who is
one of the most prolific when it comes to taking freebies.
This is nothing new under the sun, Dennis Lennox is.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
It is the POLP Catholic right.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
This is how the system works.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
I mean, the idea that politicians are going out with
lobbyists or drinks and food. I don't think that's anything
new here. I mean, I guess it fills in space
and you can and sensationalize it by saying, oh, well,
in this case, you know, it's two legislators who are
marrying each other. I'm great that they found love. I
(12:08):
mean they found love in Lancing. I mean, no different
than people find love in workplaces all the time. I
just think this has much to do about nothing. And
you know, in fact, Astley, I would argue, this is
partly why a lot of people in a state of
ten million don't run for political office, because it's just
not worth it. When when you have pieces like this britten.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Yeah, and if you can be bought off by a lunch,
I mean, my gosh, it's you know, it is what
it is. Okay, I want to talk to you. So,
speaking of that, you and the Detroit News it is
have a column called Michigan It's time for a constitutional convention.
That's a big deal. How often does something like that happen?
(12:53):
Why is it time and what would come out of it?
Speaker 5 (12:57):
Well, Michael Patrick, next year in Michigan, it's going to
be on the ballot automatically. It's called Proposal one. Every
sixteen years, it's automatically on the ballot. And then asked
the good people of Michigan whether or not a state
constitutional convention should be convened to either amend the current
constitution wholesale or write a new one. My column that
(13:20):
published last week and it's still online Detroit News dot
com makes the argument that it's time for a state
constitutional convention in Michigan. The reality is, Michael Patrick, our
current constitution, written in nineteen sixty three, was written for
a state that no longer exists. You know, in the
early nineteen sixties, Detroit was the richest city in the
(13:41):
world per capital. We built interstate highways. We took small
teacher colleges like Central Michigan and made them state universities.
We created sprawling suburban cities from farmlands. Now as we
end the first quarter of the twenty first century, that
Michigan no longer exists anymore. Our constitution is broken and
it's been cluttered over the years with contradictory amendments put
(14:04):
in their biout of state special interest groups. So it's
time to have a constitution that reflects not only in
the Michigan of today, but the Michigan of tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
So will there be people who will say, well, look out, now,
if they get this constitutional convention, here's what they're going
to do, Like what comes first, the chicken or the egg.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
I think that's fearmongering, Michael Patrick by vested interests who
don't want change because the current document benefits them. The
reality of it is a constitutional convention wouldn't be about party,
political party, or political ideology. You would have one hundred
and forty delegates elected based on the current independently drawn
(14:50):
state legislative districts, and whatever document that they wrote would
have to then be ratified by the people, So there
would be no incentive to some partisan or ideological right
wing or left wing document if it's going to get rejected,
because who would want to waste all that time and money.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Do you think that Alissa Slockkin is angling to be president?
Speaker 5 (15:14):
I think there're a lot of Democrats angling to be president.
I think you're going to see a fifteen to twenty
person DEI style primary in twenty twenty eight. Mark Kelly,
the astronaut turned senator from Arizona's almost certainly going to run.
I think you're going to see Wes Moore, the governor
of Maryland, Josh Shapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania, Alyssa slock
(15:36):
and who knows, maybe Gretchen Whitmer, though it increasingly looks
like she's just fed up with it and is not
going to be part of that conversation. But I would
say the odds on front runner is probably Gelden Newsome.
I just don't see how the governor of California it
does not end up to be the Democrat nominee unless
he's caught in bed with a little boy. But in
today's Democratic Party that probably wouldn't hurt him. That would
(15:59):
probably help him.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
You know what, We're gonna drop the mic on that
one right there. From the provocative Dennis Lennox from Northern Michigan.
It's Michael Patrick Shields. In the middle of all that snow,
he found a way to heat things up through the
AT and T microphones. You're listening to Michael Patrick Shields
radio stations across the state of Michigan and worldwide ATMI
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Please Noavi do.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Please Navid.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Fanlease noa be not littles fatal on your fanise say
god phanise Navi does hey, Darryl perleise, no be done.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Please not Jose Feliciano and Darryl Hall. Merry Christmas from
Michael Patrick Shields.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
You are married Christmas.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
I want to wish you a very Christma.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I want to wish you a merry Christmas.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
From the bottom a myro.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I want to wish you are married Christmas. I want
to win your Mary Grandma. I want to waste your
very christ Please, Dolly, do.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
You know it's Christmas when the Corona commercial comes on
with the palm trees in the evening and one of
them lights up with the holiday lights on it? Don't serve.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Please not me that Ptyn dott enjoy your family say that.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I want to waste you a very Christal. I'll waste
you are christ but I'll waste you a very Christmas.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
Brother Bottle, bring it down, fellas.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
I just I just want to say, I want to
wish you Garrold and your family. I'm merry, merry Christmas.
I had a lot of blessings on you and your
show and your family, and thank you for inviting me.
God bless you. I count my blessings and one of
(02:15):
them was hanging out with you.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Happy to hang out with all of you listening on
radio stations across the state of Michigan and worldwide ATMI
bigshow dot com. Speaking of worldwide, Pope Leo appeared at
an electronic music rave to mark the seventy fifth birthday
of Archbishop Bernard Bober. This was in Slovakia early in November.
(02:40):
We'll congratulations to the lasers in the spotlights and all
the rest of it. And he's in Lebanon and we'll
have coverage of that as well. Thank you very much.
By the way, let's I got a lot of things
I would like to talk to Dennis Lennox about the
freelance columnist and political strategists from northern Michigan who might
be buried in snowere areas. Right now, how about a
(03:01):
winter Wonderland report from where you are before we get
started throwing around the political discussion.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Well, hey, good morning, Michael Patrick. And before we can
wish each other a merry Christmas, we have to say
happy Advent, because of course yesterday was the first day
of Advent.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
That's very sweet of you to remind everybody. So we're
on the purple candle, and then it's purple, purple, pink,
purple as we make our way. Good afternoon, good evening,
whenever you might be listening to this program right now.
What did you think of the Transportation secretary telling everyone
before Thanksgiving that, you know, maybe you ought to stop
(03:38):
wearing your pajamas on the airplane and dress up a
little bit.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
You know, if that means that people stop wearing a
fong on the plane when they fly spirit, I think
that's probably a good thing. At the end of the day.
I'm not so it's going to make much of a difference.
Michael Patrick, I think that that fight was long ago lost.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
The dignity of travel is lost. You're saying people are
turning up, and that's what he really pointed out is
maybe they would behave better if they dress better, because
sometimes people are getting really and we see it in
videos now that everyone has a camera really cranked up
when they're up there in the skies.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
I think people would behave better on the plane if
they had more leg room, if the seats were wider,
if you could fly five hours across the country and
get an edible meal. I think the airlines have a
lot of responsibility in this as well. I mean, let's
face it, unless you're flying in the front of the plane,
(04:40):
it's pretty downright miserable in the back of the plane.
I mean, you might as well take a great home bus.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Across the country.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
I saw a video yesterday of a Delta pilot and
he was a selfie video that he made, and he
said that he and his co pilot are going to
fly from Detroit to Traverse City. That's the way he
said it. And he said, neither one of us have
ever flown in bey there, befo, it's going to be fun.
And then we're turning around, going back to Detroit and
onto Austin, Texas. But I said, thought, wow, if I
(05:12):
was with two pilots who'd never flown in there before,
given the weather that we're having, and he calls it
Traverse City, I don't know, that might make me nervous.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
I've heard that one before. I mean, I think General
Motors calls it, what this is, Chevy Traverse, So I
suppose that's understandable. But hey, you're talking to a guy
who lives in Topenavy. I've heard Toppena be pronounced every
way imaginable.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
So is that where you are now? And what is
the snow like?
Speaker 5 (05:38):
So you know, we didn't have a black Friday, we
had a snowed in Friday. We've picked up probably I
don't know, eleven to thirteen inches of snow in the
last two or three days. But more importantly, camp cold.
I mean it's like January or February weather here, and
it's supposed to be like that in the next five
(05:59):
to seven days. We're supposed to have record.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Colds WMKTAM and FM in northern Michigan. Dennis Lennox, Donald
Trump and this project. Now we're seeing that he's at
odds with the architect for the ballroom that he's building.
The architect says, there's a general rule that you're not
supposed to have the addition be bigger than the original property.
(06:23):
So at ninety thousand square feet, it would dwarf the
fifty five thousand square feet White House mansion. You've been there.
What do you make of that?
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Well, I guess that means we just got to make
the White House bigger. In all seriousness, I mean, I
think we eat a ballroom space. I've been to functions.
I would say I've probably been to a half dozen receptions.
I've never been to a dinner at the White House. Unfortunately,
I'm still waiting for maybe one of those invitations one day.
But it is a very small space, especially once you
(06:56):
take away the west wayne where all the offices are in,
take away the residents of the president and first family
on the upper floors. There really is, in fact no
ballroom in the current White House, and so they make
use of a variety of spaces. So we do need something.
I don't know if this is the solution or not.
(07:17):
I'll let the architectural experts hash this out, but what
I will say is, I think there's this misconception out
there that the White House is an old building. It
actually isn't. The White House was basically demolished by Harry
Truman in the late nineteen forties and build a new
So if you consider old nineteen forties, then yes it
(07:39):
is old, but there's very little outside of the exterior
walls from the original White House.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Speaking of old, the New York Times has an article
this weekend shorter Days signs of fatigue, Trump faces realities
of aging in office. The oldest person to be elected
to the presidency, So now they're on that about him,
that he's an old man.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
You know, look, I think the people who have comped
through introm syndrome. You know that the New York Times
is unfortunately too often they're not the party organ of
the Democrat Party, and you know they're they're putting out
this narrative, and of course i'ds so little bit ironic
because that's the narrative that Trump and Republicans used against Biden.
I just don't think it's a it's a true narrative.
I mean, Trump does more events, he has more press availabilities,
(08:25):
he's more transparent, for better or for worse. Sometimes maybe
he should be a little less transparent than any president
that I can ever think of it. So I just
don't think people actually believe.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
That to be true.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
We will continue with Dennis Lennox, the freelance columnist political
strategist in Northern Michigan and the world. That's Michael Patrick
Shields with you through the AT and T microphones. And remember,
we have a big jackpot, big, big, big seven hundred
and forty million dollar power ball tonight at Michigan Lottery
dot com or your local retailer seven hundred and forty million.
(09:00):
If you have it, then Chris on Christmas on a
one hundred and seventy five million and put you're on
an island just about anywhere. Wait a minute, it's fuzzy
math again. It's over seven hundred million in the power
ball tonight. Michael Patrick shields. You can get those tickets
(09:21):
at Meyer where you get more of the things you
want most, more local produce, more home to korb, more
free prescriptions, more importantly, you get them all for less
admire Why would you pay more? Dennis Lennox is a
freelance writer. He does a lot of traveling and writing,
and he's a political analyst. And it comes together here
(09:41):
that Harry Truman, who you mentioned as renovated, he's sort
of rebuilt the White House according to what you say.
He has spent one hundred and seventy five days of
his presidency in Key West at what was called the
Little White House. And Tony Cuthbert is going to be
making his first our trip to Key West. Now here's
a guy who made his first ever trip to Vegas
(10:03):
last year, so he's knocking off all the party spots,
but in March he's taking his family on spring break
to Key West. I don't know, Dennis, if you've been there,
obviously Truman has any advice for mister Cuthbert.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
Well, you know, maybe we can tag along too if
we all go in on the Lottel together tonight, right,
Michael Patrick, we can carry Tony's bags on Key West form.
You know I've been there once. I really liked a
restaurant called matt Stock Island Kitchen and Bar. Matt Stock
Island Kitchen.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
That's that the hotel we're staying at.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
So good call Dennis. Hey, there you go. I was
gonna say, you know, it's about ten minutes as I remember,
by car from the main drag in Key West, so
it's a little bit quieter. But it had the best
key line pie that I've ever had in my life
at matt Stock Island Kitchen and Bars. So there you go.
It's at the Perry Hotel if I remember correctly, not
(11:01):
to be confused with the Perry Hotel and Potoski.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
What a small world. Wow, amazing. Well you'll be able
to compare that key lime pie with Joe's Stonecrab Key
lime pie and see what you think. But you'll be
in the keys there for sure. I don't know if
mL l Rick has written in the Free Press Turkeys
and Lancing continue stuffing themselves with lobbyists. Largesse one lobbyist
(11:29):
through an engagement party for a state rep who is
one of the most prolific when it comes to taking freebies.
This is nothing new under the sun, Dennis Lennox is.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
It is the POLP Catholic right.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
This is how the system works.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
I mean, the idea that politicians are going out with
lobbyists or drinks and food. I don't think that's anything
new here. I mean, I guess it fills in space
and you can and sensationalize it by saying, oh, well,
in this case, you know, it's two legislators who are
marrying each other. I'm great that they found love. I
(12:08):
mean they found love in Lancing. I mean, no different
than people find love in workplaces all the time. I
just think this has much to do about nothing. And
you know, in fact, Astley, I would argue, this is
partly why a lot of people in a state of
ten million don't run for political office, because it's just
not worth it. When when you have pieces like this britten.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Yeah, and if you can be bought off by a lunch,
I mean, my gosh, it's you know, it is what
it is. Okay, I want to talk to you. So,
speaking of that, you and the Detroit News it is
have a column called Michigan It's time for a constitutional convention.
That's a big deal. How often does something like that happen?
(12:53):
Why is it time and what would come out of it?
Speaker 5 (12:57):
Well, Michael Patrick, next year in Michigan, it's going to
be on the ballot automatically. It's called Proposal one. Every
sixteen years, it's automatically on the ballot. And then asked
the good people of Michigan whether or not a state
constitutional convention should be convened to either amend the current
constitution wholesale or write a new one. My column that
(13:20):
published last week and it's still online Detroit News dot
com makes the argument that it's time for a state
constitutional convention in Michigan. The reality is, Michael Patrick, our
current constitution, written in nineteen sixty three, was written for
a state that no longer exists. You know, in the
early nineteen sixties, Detroit was the richest city in the
(13:41):
world per capital. We built interstate highways. We took small
teacher colleges like Central Michigan and made them state universities.
We created sprawling suburban cities from farmlands. Now as we
end the first quarter of the twenty first century, that
Michigan no longer exists anymore. Our constitution is broken and
it's been cluttered over the years with contradictory amendments put
(14:04):
in their biout of state special interest groups. So it's
time to have a constitution that reflects not only in
the Michigan of today, but the Michigan of tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
So will there be people who will say, well, look out, now,
if they get this constitutional convention, here's what they're going
to do, Like what comes first, the chicken or the egg.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
I think that's fearmongering, Michael Patrick by vested interests who
don't want change because the current document benefits them. The
reality of it is a constitutional convention wouldn't be about party,
political party, or political ideology. You would have one hundred
and forty delegates elected based on the current independently drawn
(14:50):
state legislative districts, and whatever document that they wrote would
have to then be ratified by the people, So there
would be no incentive to some partisan or ideological right
wing or left wing document if it's going to get rejected,
because who would want to waste all that time and money.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Do you think that Alissa Slockkin is angling to be president?
Speaker 5 (15:14):
I think there're a lot of Democrats angling to be president.
I think you're going to see a fifteen to twenty
person DEI style primary in twenty twenty eight. Mark Kelly,
the astronaut turned senator from Arizona's almost certainly going to run.
I think you're going to see Wes Moore, the governor
of Maryland, Josh Shapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania, Alyssa slock
(15:36):
and who knows, maybe Gretchen Whitmer, though it increasingly looks
like she's just fed up with it and is not
going to be part of that conversation. But I would
say the odds on front runner is probably Gelden Newsome.
I just don't see how the governor of California it
does not end up to be the Democrat nominee unless
he's caught in bed with a little boy. But in
today's Democratic Party that probably wouldn't hurt him. That would
(15:59):
probably help him.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
You know what, We're gonna drop the mic on that
one right there. From the provocative Dennis Lennox from Northern Michigan.
It's Michael Patrick Shields. In the middle of all that snow,
he found a way to heat things up through the
AT and T microphones. You're listening to Michael Patrick Shields
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