All-volunteer army gathers more than Hoekstra, Durant, and Hekman, who paid staff to gather signatures
LANSING, Mich. – Republican U.S. Senate candidate Gary Glenn Tuesday submitted to the Secretary of State the signatures of 27,227 registered voters gathered by an all-volunteer army of TEA Party and other grassroots conservatives to place Glenn’s name on the August 7th GOP primary ballot. The total was thousands more signatures than submitted by GOP rivals Pete Hoekstra, Clark Durant, and Randy Hekman, all of whom had paid campaign staff gathering signatures.
“We witnessed a week ago in Indiana what it meant for a U.S. Senate candidate to have TEA Party support in a Republican primary election,” Glenn said. “Today is just the first example of what it means to have TEA Party support in the Republican primary here in Michigan.”
MIDLAND, Mich. – Republican U.S. Senate candidate Gary Glenn Wednesday called for an end to taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood’s “war on women,” pointing to the nation’s top abortion provider’s responsibility for one out of every four abortions performed in the U.S.
“While pro-abortion ideologues such as Debbie Stabenow support forcing taxpayers to violate their conscience, I will work to end taxpayer-funding of Planned Parenthood’s 40-year old war on women,” Glenn wrote in a statement to Planned Parenthood Action Fund President Cecile Richards in response to a May 1st letter inviting him to answer the group’s survey of candidates for federal office.
“For all the rhetoric in the political war of words on this issue, it is Planned Parenthood that is actually responsible for taking the lives of millions of American women before they were ever allowed to draw their first breath,” Glenn wrote.
DETROIT NEWS — “(Gary) Glenn, president of the American Family Association of Michigan, boasts an endorsement from former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee… In February, a coalition of 43 Tea Party groups also pledged to help elect Glenn. ‘People will abandon Pete Hoekstra when they learn about his voting record,’ Glenn said. ‘Clark or I or both are going to start rising in the polls as people look around for alternatives.’ …analysts say Glenn and Durant are Hoekstra’s toughest competition…”
For Gary Glenn’s name to be on the August Republican primary ballot, 15,000 petition signatures of registered voters must be submitted to the Michigan Secretary of State’s office by May 15th. While our volunteers have made progress, there is still much work to be done to meet the deadline. If you’re willing to help collect the remaining petition signatures we need, please contact the District Leader for your county below and volunteer to be a county coordinator or field worker.
MIDLAND, Mich. — Republican U.S. Senate candidate Gary Glenn Saturday endorsed a bold plan to stop the debt, balance the federal budget within 5 years, repeal Obamacare and restore America’s economic vitality and leadership.
The plan, based on the grassroots-generated “Tea Party Budget” proposal, was unveiled Friday by Senators Jim DeMint of South Carolina, Rand Paul of Kentucky, and Mike Lee of Utah, all members of the TEA Party Caucus of the U.S. Senate.
Glenn called the plan “a blueprint to restore America’s freedoms, prosperity and leadership in the world.”
