Knollenberg, Republicans, want lightweight Palin back in state

Republicans, stunned by John McCain pulling out of Michigan, held a press conference yesterday in Pontiac trying to rally the troops. Joe Knollenberg, has written a letter to the McCain campaign, asking them to let Sarah Failin campaign here, but they haven't received a response to Joe's letter. They seem to be going through the grief process. First they were in denial, then they were angry and on November 4 they will be forced to get to acceptance of the huge losses they are facing in the state of Michigan.

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Trent Wisecup Apparently Working for Navigators and L. Brooks Patterson

This is really interesting. Trent Wisecup, Joe Knollenberg's former chief of staff, now L. Brooks Patterson's campaign manager is using an e-mail address from Navigators LLC. Click here to see Trent's bio on the Navigators web site. I sent Trent an e-mail inviting him to have L. Brooks Patterson come on an upcoming episode of my community television show, Michigan Progress. I sent the e-mail to his Navigators e-mail address. It didn't bouce back, so I presume he received it, although I haven't heard back from him.

The Navigators web site is working today and their client list is very interesting. Among their clients, corporate clients like Wal-Mart, Fannie Mae, about to go bankrupt and cost taxpayers billions of dollars. AT&T, now given retroactive immunity for illegally spying on American citizens, Tyco Corporation, whose CEO went to jail for using corporate funds for a lavish lifestyle. Click here for the rest of their corporate clients. Here's a list of their political clients. Click here. A very interesting client base, I think you'd agree.

Remember Trent Wisecup? Why is he using a lobbying firm e-mail?

I guess in political circles what goes around comes around. Joe Knollenberg and L. Brooks Patterson are obviously very close. L. Brooks attended Joe's campaign launch yesterday. Since Trent Wisecup is now L. Brooks' campaign manager, I wonder if Trent was in attendance too. Wisecup embarassed Joe Knollenberg, so Joe fired him and Trent checked himself into the hospital. I am so glad Trent landed on his feet with L. Brooks. Is Trent back working for his old lobbying firm, Navigators, LLC? Why is a lobbyist running L. Brooks Patterson's campaign? What is the connection?





Then he showed up on Keith Olbermann on MSNBC