Otsego County Democratic Party

Resources

State Government

Michigan Legislature -- Search our state constitution, enacted laws, executive orders and much more.

Elections in Michigan -- Secretary of State page with all the good stuff about elections.

Otsego County 2010 Election Results -- State level only

Democratic Party

Michigan Democratic Party

Michigan Democratic Party Directory & Rules 2011 * 2012 (11,000 KB PDF)

Michigan Democratic Party Rules Only 2011 * 2012 (345 KB PDF extracted from the larger document above)

First District

Partisan

DSCC -- Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee

Progress Michigan

Mackinac Center for Public Policy -- This Midland based organization bills itself as non-partisan but is anything but. If you want to know the source of our governor's ideas, check out this site. Some of the things he's said are nearly exact quotes from this site.

Non-Partisan

Citizens Research Council of Michigan -- From the organization's About Us page -- "CRC does not lobby, support or oppose candidates for public office, or take positions on ballot issues. Instead, CRC relies on the presentation of its research findings to bring about sound public policy on state and local issues. The hallmark of CRC is timely, reliable information researched in an independent, nonpartisan manner. As a result of the credibility earned by CRC, it is often the only organization that can address controversial issues in an objective fashion. "

Bridge - News and analysis for The Center for Michigan

The Center for Michigan is a “think-and-do” tank founded by Phil Power in early 2006. The Center’s objective is to cure our unhealthy hyper-partisan political culture and reinvigorate our broken policy apparatus by calling forth a bottom-up, common ground citizens’ agenda for Michigan’s transformation.

The Tax Foundation -- Compares business and personal tax rates by state. If you think Michigan is out of line with other states, check out this site.

OpenSecrets.org -- OpenSecrets.org is your nonpartisan guide to money’s influence on U.S. elections and public policy.

FollowTheMoney.org -- The National Institute on Money in State Politics is the only nonpartisan, nonprofit organization revealing the influence of campaign money on state-level elections and public policy in all 50 states.

FactCheck.org

PolitiFact.com

Snopes.com

The Pew Center on the States

OnTheIssues -- Mission is to provide non-partisan information for voters in the Presidential election, so that votes can be based on issues rather than on personalities and popularity.

Center for Responsive Politics OpenSecrets.org -- A nonpartisan research group based in Washington, D.C. that tracks money in politics and the effect of money and lobbying activity on elections and public policy and maintains a public online database of its information.

USDA Unemployment rates and household income by Michigan County

US Census Bureau -- Otsego County

Index Mundi -- This site contains detailed country statistics, charts, and maps compiled from multiple sources.