MIRS Monday Podcast

MIRS Monday, June 6, 2022

Capt. Mike Brown says on fellow former gubernatorial candidate James Craig suggesting a continuation of his campaign after being kicked off the ballot, "That party is over."

 

Congressional candidate Hillary Scholten, MEDC CEO Quentin Messer, retiring Martin Waymire professional Kathy Barks Hoffman and a new reporter joins the MIRS team. All this and more on this week's edition of the podcast.

MIRS Monday, May 30, 2022

Gubernatorial candidate Ralph Rebandt says he would not go to the Mackinac Island debate if he were asked.

 

Sen. Winnie Brinks (D-Grand Rapids), Sen. Aric Nesbitt (R-Lawton), Adrian Hemond of Grassroots Midwest and MIRS Editor Kyle Melinn put early projections on who will win the Senate in 2022.

 

And the MIRS reporting team talks about the challenges Republican gubernatorial candidates will have getting on the ballot after the Board of Canvassers meeting last Thursday.

MIRS Monday, May 23, 2022

Budget Director Chris Harkins puts an upper limit dollar tag of $2 billion on the Governor's $500 rebate plan . . . but would such a plan impact inflation?  It's possible.

 

Republican political consultant Jason Roe talks about congressional candidate Tom Barrett, state Sen. Lana Theis, the DeVoses going with Tudor Dixon and more.

 

A record number of judicial and legislative candidates are being disqualified. Information on a state Senate campaign webinar in this week's edition.

MIRS Monday, May 16, 2022

GOP gubernatorial candidate Garrett Soldano says he'll be going on TV "soon" as he talks about "unity" and how he would bring people together if elected governor.

 

Democratic political consultant Chris Marchione talks about three Southeast Michigan congressional races.

 

Also, MIRS Publisher John Reurink and Editor Kyle Melinn share their impressions from last Thursday's debate MIRS co-hosted with the Livingston County Republican Party.

MIRS Monday, May 9, 2022

Why did Rep. Kyra Bolden pass up a golden opportunity to become the House Democratic Floor Leader to run for the Michigan Supreme Court?

 

Longtime Republican political operative Steve Linder gets ready to hand it up after 40+ years in the business. He talks about the most controversial issues he's worked on. 

 

And Chris DeWitt of DeWitt Communications talks Whitmer's short-lived 10% giveback and gubernatorial politics on this week's edition.

MIRS Monday, May 2, 2022

Republican gubernatorial candidate Kevin Rinke talks petitions, income tax and GOP division. Sen. Jeremy Moss addresses misperceptions about people struggling with coming out. And former Sen. and political consultant Virgil Smith predicts the legislative black caucus will lose between three and 10 members due to the current redistricting maps.

Also, is Rinke the big winner if Tudor Dixon, James Craig and Perry Johnson are all kicked off the ballot?

MIRS Monday, April 25, 2022

Sen. Lana Theis explains the motive behind last week's "grooming" fundraising email (24:10). Sen. Mallory McMorrow talks about where she feels the passion for sexual indoctrination is coming from and the reaction she's received since her Senate floor speech about being mentioned in the Theis email (46:05).

Republican gubernatorial candidate James Craig, the former Detroit police chief, gives his opinions on the Patrick Lyoya shooting (57:42). And John Sellek and the MIRS team break down the Michigan Republican Party endorsement convention.

 

MIRS Monday, April 18, 2022

If Matt DePerno doesn't win the Michigan Republican Party endorsement for Attorney General this Saturday, does he end his campaign? GOP convention veteran Scott Hagerstrom of the Rogue Strategy Group and communications consultant Kaitlyn Buss tackle this and other pre-convention topics.

Rep. Tyrone Carter (D-Detroit), a former executive lieutenant with the Wayne County Sheriff's Office, addressed the police shooting of Patrick Lyoya in Grand Rapids and Bill Ballenger of the Ballenger Report talks about the potential of 10 GOP gubernatorial candidates on the primary ballot.

MIRS Monday, April 11, 2022

Democrats stood unified and excited at this weekend's convention in Detroit, but what does that mean for the General Election? Dennis Denno, a Democratic Party-endorsed candidate for Michigan State University Trustee helps the MIRS team breakdown that question and more.

 

MSU Board of Trustee candidate Renee Knake Jefferson talks about how the university has moved past the Larry Nassar scandal and direct care worker Heidi Kohloff shares challenges she's facing in her profession.

MIRS Monday, April 4, 2022

Former President Donald Trump's visit to Macomb County this weekend means what?  National political consultant Frank Luntz and Melissa Roy of Roy Public Affairs break down the visit in separate interviews. 

 

Rep. Julie Brixie, Rep. John Damoose and Kathryn Robb of Child USA Advocacy answer why extending the statute of limitations on child rape cases has proved so elusive.

 

Bob Mlynarek of 1st Call Home Healthcare explains why his home nursing business for catastrophically injured car wreck patients will "100%" go away without changes to the state's auto insurance law.

 

And which gubernatorial candidate had the best pre-Trump rally tailgate on Saturday?