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Date Rape Defender Enters Governors’ Race
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on February 25, 2010
There’s a reason people cringe when election season rolls around. They know they are going to be inundated with negative political ads that try to scare them into voting for or against certain candidates. Not only will they be bombarded on television and radio, they’ll frequently answer the phone to hear a menacing voice warning if they vote for a certain candidate, they’ll be eating dog food out of a can within weeks.
Here in Michigan, these sleazy tactics have already taken hold. A group called the Michigan Civic Educational Fund has been running radio ads, billboards, sleazy websites and possibly anonymous phone calls. It appears to be an effort to boost the gubernatorial candidacy of Attorney General Mike Cox by tearing down his opponents.
Cecil D. St. Pierre, Jr.
The Michigan Civic Educational Fund was incorporated late in 2009 by a man named Cecil D. St. Pierre, Jr., a large-dollar campaign contributor to both Mike Cox’s gubernatorial campaign and his 527 campaign fund.
How did St. Pierre come into enough money to pump big bucks into the Cox campaign? Well, he defended a man convicted in the nation’s first “date rape” drug case, in which a fifteen year old girl was killed. Furthermore, St. Pierre makes his living by defending drunk drivers (he can be found at DUILawyerLocator.com), and brags on his website that he accepts cases for probation violations, domestic violence, assault and battery, criminal sexual conduct, and drug offenses.
Sounds like a real prince.
Helping St. Pierre are long-time operatives Michael Greiner and Jeff Schroder, both with extensive histories as smear merchants in Michigan. They are well known in Warren, where their handiwork in mayoral races earned a rebuke from the Detroit News as “dirty politics.”
Now they’re back doing the same thing to Mike Cox’s opponents. Does Mike Cox have anything to do with this? With serious leadership and ethical issues of his own to contend with, along with his ties to the instigators, it’s a question worth asking.