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Eighteen months away from the 2016 presidential election, two Democrats and six Republicans have formally thrown their hat into the ring. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas was the first Republican to announce his candidacy. Cruz is the son of Cuban immigrants who before his congressional career was the longest-serving Solicitor General in Texas history. This week, Cruz began his ground game in Michigan by announcing his new state chairman. Saul Anuzis served as chairman of the Michigan Republican Party from 2005 to 2009. Later, he was a candidate for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee. Now, as part of...

Hmm. Maybe 4 delegates from Missouri aren't as important to him as one stinking stolen delegate from Michigan. NYT: BRUNSWICK, Mo. — Mitt Romney and his advisers pride themselves on vigorously pursuing every delegate in every corner of the country in their quest to secure the Republican presidential nomination. If "vigorously pursuing" means changing the rules and cheating, then look no further than Michigan, where Team Romney changed the rules and the RNC's very own Saul Anuzis along with the Chair of the MRP, Bobby Schostak voted against the former AG Cox and the MRP Counsel, to win one for...

Saul Anuzis wants to alter the way we elect presidents by supporting the Soros-financed National Popular Vote movement. If nothing else, the 2010 elections were about a renaissance of the United States Constitution. The constitutional restraints on the power of government are en vogue. A resurgent GOP has claimed the document as a unifying rallying cry. This is why it is so curious that one of the leading candidates for Republican National Committee chair has fought for one of the most anti-constitutional ideas of the last half-century. Saul Anuzis, former chair of the Michigan Republican Party, has aggressively championed the...

While I did not get a chance to watch the whole debate last Monday, I took the time to watch it this morning on youtube. The most applauded answer of the debate was given by Ann Wagner when asked how many guns she owned. She answered that she just got a new gun safe for Christmas, and she has 16 guns in total including a glock and an assault rifle. That was the dumbest answer of the debate. My father-in-law and I do not agree on much. He is a Democrat, I’m a Republican, but he taught me a very...

Anuzis is gaining favor after the assumed frontrunner, Reince Priebus, took heat from Connecticut GOP chairman Chris Healy. Healy suggests Anuzis or Wagner may become Priebus' direct opponent. Read it at: The Weekly StandardConservative bloggers like Dan Riehl and Vassar Bushmills and JadedByPolitics at RedState among others are loudly criticizing Priebus. I have given my two cents in the race, of course, calling for Saul Anuzis as RNC chair. Saul has been a sort of social media wizard and understands the importance of reaching the grassroots. I have also said that Wagner seems out of the loop on why conservatism...

...Now we turn our attention to 2012. America must elect a new President. It is that hope, that necessity, that challenge, that draws me to announce my candidacy for the Chairmanship of the Republican National Committee. I don’t take lightly the fact that I am challenging a friend and colleague for the Chairmanship. When Michael was elected Chairman, I was the only candidate who stepped forward to attend the next morning’s RNC breakfast meeting, agreed to join the transition team, and later took on several roles as a team player on the RNC…and have attended every meeting since. Given my...

A prominent Michigan Republican is running against party chairman Michael Steele. Saul Anuzis made his plans known Friday in an e-mail in which he says the party can win in 2012 only if the chairman steps out of the limelight and allows the candidates to become the voice and face of Republicans.

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In an exclusive interview with ConservativeAmerican.org, Republican Saul Anuzis says if he is chosen as the next chairman of the Republican National Committee, he’d like to work with people like Rush Limbaugh to promote conservative principles. That defense of Limbaugh is in stark contrast to President Obama’s comments to Repubicans in the US House last week. The new President told them they needed to “Stop listening to Rush Limbaugh.” Here’s a portion of our interview with Anuzis: ConservativeAmerican.org: “Does Rush Limbaugh help, or hurt (or neither) the republican party? He says the party has abandoned conservatives and recently [he] is...

Senate Democrats are having a really bad week. And guess what? Their Republicans colleagues just love to poor it on. Circulating around Capitol Hill and political circles in Michigan tonight is a photo of Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D.-Mich.) on the Senate floor speaking at podium next to a sign that reads: “Dangerously Incompetent.” (Hat tip to Michigan GOP Chairman Saul Anuzis.) Stabenow has handed Senate Republicans, not to mention her eventual GOP opponent in November, a perfect image to plaster across billboards all over Michigan. Have Democrats no common sense? Oh, right. I forgot I was talking about the party...

Dear Mr. Brewer, In your letter to me dated February 1, 2005, following a list of questions, you wrote: "If we do not receive a response, we will assume you do not agree with the positions expressed by the Michigan Democratic Party." As I am sure you are aware, I am the Chairman of the Michigan Republican Party (see numerous articles). As I am also sure you are aware, the Democrat and Republican parties have long been rival political parties (see U.S. history books; also read a newspaper), holding to separate ideologies and espousing oftentimes divergent platforms on a myriad...

Anuzis brings a different background to state GOP's top job 2/3/2005, 5:40 p.m. ET By KATHY BARKS HOFFMAN The Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan Republican Party is on the verge of being led by a Harley-riding former Democrat who barely spoke English until the first grade. Saulius "Saul" Anuzis, who grew up in Detroit in a blue-collar Democratic family that immigrated from Lithuania, is about to become the GOP's next chairman. Anuzis, 45, wasn't initially interested in succeeding Betsy DeVos, a major GOP donor and fund-raiser who's stepping down after leading the party the past two years....