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Thu Sep 29, 2005 at 01:00:00 AM EDT
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2010 Status: Term-Limited
Campaign Website: Coming Soon
Biography:
A lifelong resident of Bay County, Michigan, Senator Jim Barcia was
born in Bay City on February 25, 1952. He is a graduate of Bay City
Central High School and earned a bachelor's degree from Saginaw Valley
State University in 1974. Senator Barcia is married to Vicki Bartlett.
He has two step-children and five grandchildren.
After college, Senator Barcia served in the Michigan House of
Representatives from 1977 to 1982, including four years as Majority
Whip from 1979 to 1982. Senator Barcia was elected to serve in the
Michigan Senate from 1983 until he was elected to the U.S. House of
Representatives from Michigan's 5th congressional district in 1992,
where he served until 2002.
In Congress, Senator Barcia served on the Science Committee and
Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. Additionally, Senator
Barcia belonged to the House Rural Caucus, the Caucus on Missing and
Exploited Children, the Sportsmen's Caucus, the Bow-Hunting Task Force
and the Congressional Pro-Life Caucus.
The 2000 census eliminated a congressional seat in Michigan. Senator
Barcia, with the encouragement of his constituents, opted to run for
the 31st senate district seat in the Michigan Legislature. He was
elected with over 60% of the vote. Senator Barcia currently sits on the
Senate Appropriations Committee and is the Minority Vice-Chair of the
Agriculture, Transportation, Environmental Quality and Natural
Resources subcommittees.
Senator Barcia serves as the Associate President Pro Tempore of the
Senate, as well as the Democratic Whip.
(Democratic Caucus)
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Sun Aug 28, 2005 at 01:00:00 AM EDT
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District
map
General election vote totals:
Year
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Dem
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Dem #
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Dem %
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Repub
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Repub #
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Repub %
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2002
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JIM BARCIA |
54,352 |
60.5 |
Mike Green |
35,486 |
39.5 |
Primary election vote totals:
None
Kerry % = 48.5%
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Mon Oct 15, 2007 at 13:38:06 PM EDT
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(Welcome to Senator Barcia. - promoted by lpackard)
(Today, October 15th, bloggers around the web will unite to speak to one single important issue. That issue is the environment. Every blogger will post about the environment in their own way, relating it to their own individual causes. The purpose of this day is to focus on one topic with everyone participating in ideas on building a better future. This diary was originally posted on Blogging for Michigan on August 28.)
 There's a big argument going on among scientists and environmental experts about how long the world's supply of oil and natural gas is going to last. The one thing they agree on is that it won't last forever. While we're experiencing shortages and price fluctuations, our children and grandchildren could see a day when the oil supply runs out entirely, especially from politically volatile areas like the Middle East. But we can prepare for and even capitalize on that dire prediction. Michigan's future lies in renewable energy and renewable fuels, and it's a theme that Gov. Granholm emphasized in her radio address last week, prior to her departure to Sweden and Germany to recruit high tech businesses to Michigan.
I too believe Michigan's future is in renewable energy and renewable fuels. That is why I'm sponsoring SB 385 to require that 20% of electricity used here in Michigan come from renewable resources, like wind, biomass from agriculture, hydro, or solar power, by the year 2020. More than 20 states and the District of Columbia have implemented Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS), ranging from a low of 2.2% by 2011 in Wisconsin up to 25% by 2025 in Minnesota. So, while this legislation I'm offering is ambitious for Michigan, it's firmly in the mainstream of policy decisions being made across the country.
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Wed Jul 19, 2006 at 22:19:01 PM EDT
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UPDATE by Matt:
This picture was taken from a smashleftwingscum.com post recounting a 2005 interaction between the allegedly maligned SD31 candidate and the Mayor of Lansing, Virg Bernero.
Your can read the post here - or here, after it gets taken down.
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According to today's (subscription only) Gongwer report, SD31 candidate Zack Nuncio (R-Bay City) claims the Smash Leftwing Scum "Fight Night" photos of him are fake:
While Mr. Nuncio at first said he did not authorize any photos taken, he then insisted he was never present at a party where boxing took place and that he never participated in a boxing match.
Instead he said his picture had probably been "photoshopped" into the scenes.(Photoshop is a highly popular software package that allows users to manipulate photographs).
Hmm...any forensic image experts out there? I've magnified the images to take a closer look and to my untrained eye, either they have one heckuva of good photoshop wizard or Nuncio is full of it. Take a look. Whad'ya think?
BTW, as Hy Dudgeon pointed out so well, next time remember the first rule of Fight Club: don't talk about Fight Club!
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Wed Jul 19, 2006 at 02:40:25 AM EDT
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UPDATE 2 by Matt: SD31 candidate Zack Nuncio tells Gongwer the photos allegedly of him are fake and have been photoshopped. Click here to read more.
UPDATE by Matt: As expected, the web page in question has been removed. Fortunately, a certain somebody decided to save it for posterity. See it here.
“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to
hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think
differently�
-Friedrich Nietzsche: The Dawn: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality, Book 4, #297, 1881
Q: What do a basement full of brawling and bloody college Republicans, a
Lansing-based right-wing indoctrination program for high schoolers, and
male prostitute/fake White House correspondent "Jeff Gannon" have in common?
A: DeVos/Amway money. Intrigued? Read on...
"SMASH LEFT-WING SCUM!" That's the banner headline (and the url) of a
certain website made known to me today. Take a look (you can also view the site here) - it's a complete
gallery of local college conservatives beating each other up in somebody's
basement, under the ominous subtitle: "Here right wingers learn
personal combat
skills to help them in future conflicts." Conflicts, presumably, with
"left-wing scum" like you and I.
On the left with the ever-so-slightly bloodstained armpitt is SD31
State Senate Candidate Zack Nuncio (R-Bay City - running against Sen.
Jim Barcia [D-Bay City]). NOTE: as mentioned above, Nuncio says these pictures have been photoshopped. Click here for related post.
Included in the brawling are MSU College
Republicans' chairman Jeff Wiggins, treasurer Anna Marie Cooper, and former chairman (and smashleftwingscum.com registrant) Jason Miller. There's also Luke Pelican of the Alpha Omicron chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha honor society, The Republican Michigander himself, Dan Wholihan (also a member of the Livingston Co. GOP exec committee), and Michigan Conservative Dossier blogmaster, Perry Como aficionado, and former Michlib troll Joe Sylvester (a.k.a. cheneygun).
All appear to be having a delightful time giving each other bloody
noses and mouths in preparation for the "future conflicts." Yet one picture in particular stands out:
Campusleadership.org? What's that? The sign appears in five of the
other pictures. Well, here's an excerpt from their "about us" page:
The Campus Leadership Program, a division of the Leadership
Institute, fosters permanent, effective, conservative student
organizations on college campuses across America.
-snip-
Local conservative campus groups provide experience in leadership
and positive character development for each young conservative who
participates. The creation and maintenance of the campus group develops
the principles of individual responsibility, private initiative and
organizational entrepreneurship in the students.
Positive character development, like drunken and bloody basement
brawls...but hey, who am I to judge? At any rate,
the CLP lists some other fun activities members can participate in
(besides drunken and bloody basement brawls):
- Host speakers and events on campus
- Start a conservative newspaper
- Win student government elections
- Fight the political correctness and the campus left!
The Soviet Union theme seems to be very
prevalent on on the CLP site - a facet closely mimicked by our old
friends at smashleftwingscum.com. Interesting enough. But what do we
know about the Leadership Institute - of which the CLP is supposedly "a
division"?
(more below the jump...)
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Wed May 24, 2006 at 21:52:54 PM EDT
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2006 status: defeated.
No campaign website found.
Biography: pro-handgun advocate (source: Petitiononline.com)
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Sun Aug 28, 2005 at 01:00:00 AM EDT
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Alan Fox (interview
with Matt Ferguson, September, 2005):
AF: The numbers on the Barcia district are almost identical
to the Prusi district in the western U.P. - which is to say that Kerry got 48 ½
%. In 2002, Barcia, who was then a sitting member of the U.S. Congress, was
elected to the seat with 60 ½ %. The one thing that may make that seat
different is that Barcia ran into some legal problems in the situation
involving the Macomb County prosecutor's campaign. At one point Barcia was
indicted, but those charges have been thrown out - he's under no legal
jeopardy, and his argument that it was all a political setup seems to have
been vindicated. But on the other hand, that's the kind of thing that allows
somebody to make an issue of something. So the Republicans may try to do that. Barcia, on the other
hand, has served in the state House, the state Senate, in Congress, now back in
the Senate - for a long, long time. He's a fairly moderate Democrat, he is a
right-to-life Democrat. I don't think he has any serious problems with the NRA.
He doesn't present a very strong target for the Republicans, except on the
question of his indictment, and I think that's likely to be an issue that
doesn't fly in that district. So they may try to take shot at him, but I think
he's likely to survive.
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