I am a flying monkey!

Friends,

First, many thanks to those that attended one of the MI Taxpayers Alliance's
"Recall Boot Camps" this past week in Traverse City, Mt. Pleasant, and
Kalamazoo. So far, with the help of our recall-expert friends from Wisconsin's
Citizens for Responsible Government, the MTA has trained over 140 citizens on
how to be recall warriors!

Special thanks to the taxspender protesters outside our boot camp in Kalamazoo
who were demanding tax increases - those protesters helped our boot camp get
more media!

The Battle Creek Enquirer printed a column Saturday by Assistant Local Editor Susan
J. Demas that is critical of Lansing politicos for failing to raise your taxes
fast enough. She enlists 'The Wizard of Oz' for comparative purposes. Here's a
clip from her column,

Senate Majority Leader Mike "Bishop, R-Rochester, stars as the Tin Woodsman in
need of a heart, who thinks nothing of slashing college funding and medical care
for poor kids.

Is he trying to appease the Wicked Witch of Notaxistan lobby, whose Flying Monkey, former state Rep. Leon Drolet, hounds legislators with his
gigantic, fiberglass pig? Or are dreams of the governor's mansion dancing in the
boyish Bishop's head? "

Read the entire column by clicking this link:

http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070720/NEWS01/70
7200316/1002/NEWS01

The MSU student paper ran an article about the MTA on Friday. That article is
here:

http://www.statenews.com/article.phtml?pk=41670

The lovefest between West-Michigan media and the MI Taxpayers Alliance passionately continues with this editorial in today's (Sunday)
Kalamazoo Gazette:

http://www.mlive.com/news/kzgazette/index.ssf?/base/columns-3/1185078530232600.x
ml&coll=7&thispage=1

And the hits just keep on coming!

I'll keep you posted!

Leon Drolet
MI Taxpayer Alliance
www.mitaxpayers.org