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Lavora Barnes reelected as Michigan Democratic Party chair
(AP) — Michigan Democratic Get together Chair Lavora Barnes was reelected for a 3rd two-year time period Saturday after she helped lead the social gathering to historic wins within the battleground state within the 2022 midterms.
Barnes, who took over social gathering management in 2019 after working as its chief working officer for greater than three years, was reelected to the place throughout the Michigan Democratic Get together’s spring conference in Detroit.
The social gathering has loved historic success in Michigan since Barnes took over 4 years in the past. Democrats flipped each the state Home and Senate final 12 months, along with Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer being reelected for one more 4 years, to win a trifecta within the state authorities for the primary time in 40 years.
Michigan can also be slotted to be the fifth state to carry its presidential major in early 2024 underneath a brand new presidential major calendar championed by President Joe Biden.
Barnes, who’s the primary Black girl to go the social gathering, introduced in January that she would search reelection. She ran unopposed.
Barnes informed The Related Press on Friday that “there’s a lot work nonetheless to be completed” going into 2024 as Democrats gear up for key races throughout the state along with the presidential election.
Michigan Democrats will look to develop a slim Home majority whereas additionally profitable congressional races throughout the state, together with an open U.S. Senate seat that’s anticipated to be one of the aggressive within the nation after Sen. Debbie Stabenow introduced she was stepping down in 2024.
“I’m assured that we’re going to ship a Democrat to the U.S. Senate once more. However that is an enormous endeavor for the social gathering,” Barnes stated. “We’re gearing up for it.”
The social gathering holds a two-seat majority within the state Home and a number of Democratic representatives have already indicated they’ll search different places of work in 2024. Barnes stated the social gathering might want to “recruit robust candidates and recruit them early in order that they’ll begin working of their districts,” in the event that they hope to retain the bulk going ahead.
Barnes chosen state Rep. Jason Morgan, of Ann Arbor, and state Sen. Erika Geiss, of Taylor, to hitch her as vice chairs.
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This story was first revealed on February 11, 2023. It was up to date on February 12, 2023 to right that Lavora Barnes ran unopposed within the race and didn’t defeat one challenger as was beforehand reported.
Michigan hockey’s team’s win streak against Notre Dame is over.
The ninth-ranked Wolverines fell to the Irish 7-4 Saturday in South Bend, their first loss to Notre Dame in nine games.
After a slow start Friday, Michigan scored five straight in a 5-3 victory in the series opener. It was the Irish that used a five-goal surge to propel it to victory to earn a series split.
Sophomore Evan Werner opened the scoring for the Wolverines (13-8-1, 7-5 Big Ten) at the 11:48 mark of the first period, but Notre Dame answered with five straight.
William Whitelaw and Philippe Lapointe scored power-play goals 32 seconds apart in the second period to make it a two-goal game, but that’s as close as the Wolverines came to a comeback.
They were done in by a disastrous stretch in the second period where the Irish (7-14-1, 2-11-1) scored three goals in 32 seconds. Saturday was Notre Dame’s first Big Ten win in regulation.
Michigan outshot Notre Dame 41-29 but gave up a season-high seven goals.
It faces rival Michigan State, the top-ranked team in the country, for the first time this season next weekend, hosting the Spartans on Friday and traveling to East Lansing on Saturday.
Michigan quarterback Alex Orji had a visit lined up to see Temple on Wednesday, but Orji won’t make it to that visit after all. It came out on Friday night that Orji had taken a visit to UNLV — something people didn’t know right away. Orji’s visit must’ve been a hit because on Saturday evening the former Wolverine committed to the Rebels.
In a statement to ESPN, Orji said “It felt like a great opportunity to go out to Vegas with Coach Mullen and Coach Dennis. It’s an opportunity to cultivate winning culture.”
Orji told ESPN: “It felt like a great opportunity to go out to Vegas with Coach Mullen and Coach Dennis,” he said of new UNLV coach Dan Mullen and OC Corey Dennis. “It’s an opportunity to cultivate winning culture.”
— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) January 11, 2025
UNLV is coming off of an excellent season in which it went 11-3 and lost to Boise State in the Mountain West Championship. Former head coach Barry Odom is now at Purdue and the Rebels went out and hired former Flordia head coach Dan Mullen who is now running the program.
Orji will have two years of eligibility remaining with UNLV. Orji finished 2024 going 25-for-47 for 150 yards, three touchdowns, and two INTs through the air. He also ran for 269 yards and a score for Michigan.
If Orji is going to start at quarteback for the Rebels, Mullen will have to trust Orji’s throwing ability — something Michigan appeared to not trust.
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