Note to Presidential Preference Candidates, News Editors, Columnists & Talk Show Hosts

LANSING, Mich., May 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Perhaps you didn't see the story Taxpayers United Michigan Foundation put on the PR Newswire regarding Federal District Judge Nancy Edmonds in Detroit issuing an Opinion & Order on March 26 declaring Michigan's Early Presidential Primary Election on January 15, 2008 to be irrevocably "unconstitutional".

Judge Edmonds permanently threw out Michigan's Primary by ruling grassroot citizens have a constitutional right to secrecy of the ballot and equal protection of the laws. State legislators wrote the law to be non-severable -- if one part is judged unconstitutional, the entire Public Act 52 of 2007 is invalid, null and void.

Bill McMaster, State Chairman (Volunteer), Taxpayers United Michigan Foundation, fought to defend not only those two provisions in the US and Michigan Constitutions, but also the elementary prerequisite that every voter had to be a citizen of the United States in order to vote in Michigan's Presidential Primary.

McMaster objected to illegal immigrants, foreign students and teachers, and migrant workers with picture driver's licenses being encouraged by both Democrat and Republican Party leadership in Michigan to vote on January 15, 2008. He submitted Amicus Curiae Briefs in five state courts last fall, including the Michigan Supreme Court, and testified in defense of constitutional grassroot citizen voting rights during the February 4, 2008 public meeting in the State Capitol when the Board of State Canvassers voted 3-0 to "Certify" Michigan's Presidential Primary safeguarded election laws guaranteeing the "purity of elections." (Judge Edmonds called that "almost laughable" in her March 26 statement from the bench.)

Only 21% of Michigan's 7.2 million voters risked loss of secrecy in the voting booth by actually voting either the Democrat or Republican ballot on January 15. Since voters had to declare allegiance to either the Democrat or Republican Party in order to vote, and since 51% of Michiganians are Independents, and thousands more will vote on November 4, 2008 for candidates in five "qualified minor parties", there isn't any doubt Democrat and Republican Party Committees corrupted the Michigan Presidential Primary by disenfranchising the vast majority of citizens from participating in the selection process for the next President of the United States.

The Michigan Democrat and Republican Party Central Committees are now free to join each of the "minor parties" by immediately scheduling Michigan Presidential Caucuses in compliance with their national political party headquarters in Washington DC. Delegates from Michigan's 15 Congressional Districts can be selected by caucus to attend national presidential party conventions this summer the same way as successfully accomplished in previous four-year cycles.

The complete four-page news release distributed by Taxpayers United Michigan Foundation on the Presidential Primary is available by direct link by clicking:

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/05-06-2008/0004806975&EDATE= (Due to the length of this URL, it may be necessary to copy and paste the link into your internet browser. Remove any spaces that may appear.)

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Source: Taxpayers United Michigan Foundation

CONTACT: Taxpayers United Michigan Foundation, +1-586-991-0970, or Cell,
+1-248-798-8501, or Fax, +1-586-991-0980, info@TaxpayersUnitedMI.org,
www.TaxpayersUnitedMI.org, McMasterPR@aol.com; or Bill McMaster, State
Chairman (Volunteer), of Taxpayers United Michigan Foundation, Cell
+1-248-798-8501

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