Up the street in Motown Sunday night the bumbling Detroit Pistons bungled away their first NBA playoff game while down the street Michigan Republicans claim the state Democratic Party was busy doing the same thing at its nominating convention as it took 6 hours for 7,000 plus delegates to pick candidates for a number of jobs including secretary of state and state attorney general.
GOP chair Jim Runestad was quick to fire off a press release when his counterpart, Democratic chair Curtis Hertel told the delegates that the system for registering whom could vote was not working. That included state lawmakers who should have been registered with ease but some how they barred from voting until the glitches were ironed out while delegates waited and waited. Finally around 9 p.m., after the voting was scheduled to commence at 3 p.m., the votes came in.
Mr. Runestad in essence extrapolated from that that if the other guys couldn’t run a convention how the heck could they run state government?
