The Saginaw County League of Women Voters has posted their Voter Guide, with information on all the Saginaw County Commissioner races.  You can just click on any District for information.  They list biographical information for each candidate along with the candidates' statements of priorities for county government.  No endorsements, just information.

The Saginaw News Voter Guide is also online, for all races statewide.  You have to make a few clicks to build your local ballot, but once you do you can read information and make side-by-side comparisons of the candidates.  Again, no endorsements, just information.

The Frederick Douglass Foundation of Mid-Michigan cordially invites you to a reception honoring State Supreme Court Justice Robert Young on Monday, October 25, 2010.  The event is from  8:30-9:30am, with registration begining promptly at 7:45am.  It will be held at the Clio Law Center, 164 W. Vienna St., Clio.  A light continental breakfast will be served.  Tickets are $500 for Gold Sponsors, $250 for Silver Sponsors, $100 for Hosts, and otherwise are $50 per person.

Henry Hatter, Regional Director of the Saginaw-Genesee-Bay County Chapter, asks that interested persons please RSVP by October 18th, 2010 to lserv@hotmail.com or call 810-422-4682 or 810-659-1601.

Legislation is currently being proposed by Senators Jeff Bingaman and John Kerry that could force as many as 60 million Americans to invest in government bonds in mandatory retirement accounts.  The law would require  both employers and employees to pay into a retirement account for every employee and also require that a portion of that "contribution" go into a federal-government created annuity that would be funded by purchasing Treasury debt.

Looks like we won't need to borrow from the Chinese if the government can just take our retirement funds!  The  Department of Labor held  hearings with the Department of Treasury to discuss the plan.  Such legislation could create some 60 million potential new Investment Retirement Accounts (IRAs), according Mark Gutrich, president of Denver-based ePlan Services.  That would make the Department of Labor the largest pension administrator in the nation, with the government taking over administration of your IRAs.

It's still in the talking stages at this time, but doesn't this sound similar to the mandate for us all to purchase health insurance under ObamaCare?  "This is another attempt by government to tell individuals what they have to do with their own money, stripping them of the right to make their own personal investment and life decisions," stated Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson.

And, of course, such a plan would create an incentive for Congress to keep borrowing even more money, because it would just pay us back the principal and interest as needed by selling even more treasury bonds!  All of which would make ever reducing or retiring the national debt next to impossible.  Could that be exactly what the Democrats have in mind?

Ruth Johnson, Candidate for Secretary of State, will be holding a Reform Roundtable on Tuesday, October 12th.  Ruth will address the attendees briefly, then take questions about her candidacy for Secretary of State and discuss the reforms she plans to bring to the office.  The event is from 1:00-2:00pm, at the Saginaw Fix Michigan Center, 3071 Bay Rd., Saginaw.  The Center is just north of Shattuck Rd.