Brater also played offense on taxes, something the Dems rarely do. She asked people to check out her district, which she noted isn't known for having the lowest taxes in the state. But Ann Arbor is known for quality of life.

"Come to my district in Washtenaw County," Brater offered. "We're doing better than most areas in the state."

Yes, well, when you have a university that sucks nearly half a billion dollars out of Michigan taxpayers in the form of direct and indirect appropriations, and is engaged in an immoral cross-generational wealth transfer, from millennials who have to hock their first born to pay obscene tuition rates, to spoiled, effete baby-boomer admimistrators and faculty, your local economy will tend to do better than the rest.

And the left talks about "privileged classes" - look in the mirror!

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Stay tuned as the Tietema campaign plans on blogging live from the event.

Last night we held the first weekly Right Roots Action Day, this one at the Michigan Republican Call Center in Jenison, dropping absentee chase and voter identification calls into Grand Rapids in support of Dan Tietema.

Dan's got a fight on his hands as he goes up against an entrenched incumbent in tax-hiking Democrat Robert Dean.

By the time the dust settled the Right Roots had directly touched well over 700 voters with Dan's tax relief message.

Thanks especially to Juli on the Web and Kevin Rex Heine for being the biggest rockstars of the night.  And thanks to Representative Dave Agema for swinging by and saying hello to everyone.

We had great numbers but aren't near meeting our potential.  So stay tuned... we'll be back at it in another district next week.

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