{"id":1796,"date":"2013-12-23T13:34:47","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T18:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?p=1796"},"modified":"2013-12-23T13:34:56","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T18:34:56","slug":"christmas-gifts-for-michigan-politicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=1796","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Gifts for Michigan Politicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/MLMG099.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1797\" alt=\"Christmas Gifts for Michigan Politicians\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/MLMG099.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/MLMG099.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/MLMG099-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gdata.com\/?art=\/2013\/12\/MLMG099.jpg&amp;name=Christmas Gifts for Michigan Politicians...\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/buy.png\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Originally published in the <em>Ann Arbor News, Bay City Times, Flint Journal, Grand Rapids Press, Jackson Citizen Patriot, Kalamazoo Gazette, Muskegon Chronicle, Saginaw News<br \/>\n<\/em>December 22, 2013<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The backstories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Panel 1: Dave Agema <a title=\"Dave Agema Went Off\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/politics\/index.ssf\/2013\/12\/michigan_house_speaker_jase_bo_4.html\" target=\"_blank\">went off again<\/a> sharing his uniquely twisted and mostly unsolicited views on homosexuality. This isn&#8217;t the <a title=\"Oh That Dave Agema!\" href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?p=1527\" target=\"_blank\">first time<\/a> (and actually not even the last because he has since opined his support for the Duck Dynasty dude.) Nothing good can come from going down that road, Dave.<\/li>\n<li>Panel 2: <a title=\"Dave Bing on time as Detroit's mayor: 'It's been 4 1\/2 years of hell'\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/news\/detroit\/index.ssf\/2013\/10\/dave_bing_on_time_as_detroits.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dave Bing<\/a> was a professional basketball star and successful entrepreneur, a generous and resourceful doer of good. He did not need to be mayor of Detroit. He did not need to be the one to follow the complete train-wreck that was Kwame Kitpatrick. He did not need to do battle with the delusional and dysfunctional city council. He deserves a hearty thank-you and somebody to let him know that it&#8217;s okay for him to relax now.<\/li>\n<li>Panel 3: This goes back to an <a title=\"Senator Meekhof Here Assures Me\u2026\" href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?p=1775\" target=\"_blank\">earlier cartoon<\/a>. Secretary of State Johnson (a Republican) proposed additional transparency to campaign financing; Republican Senators almost immediately <a title=\"Michigan GOP-led Senate moves to exempt issue ads, double individual campaign donation limits\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/politics\/index.ssf\/2013\/11\/michigan_secretary_of_state_ru.html\" target=\"_blank\">proposed and passed legislation to do the opposite<\/a>. I supposed the only decent thing for them to do was to include her in on some of the cash.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A very Merry Christmas to you all and a Happy New Year! (Warning: 2014 is an election year.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in the Ann Arbor News, Bay City Times, Flint Journal, Grand Rapids Press, Jackson Citizen Patriot, Kalamazoo Gazette, Muskegon Chronicle, Saginaw News December 22, 2013 The backstories: Panel 1: Dave Agema went off again sharing his uniquely twisted and mostly unsolicited views on homosexuality. This isn&#8217;t the first time (and actually not even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlive-media-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1799,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions\/1799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}