The Progressive Change Campaign Committee has collected more than 48,000 online signatures calling on Michigan Speaker James Bolger and Majority Floor Leader Jim Stamas — both Republicans — to apologize to Brown for denying her the right to speak. The attention has dramatically raised Brown’s profile in her fight to knock off a GOP incumbent in the Oakland County clerk’s race and brought money from donors nationwide…

A national progressive group is circulating a petition and launching an ad campaign to pressure Michigan House Republicans to
apologize to a Democrat banned last week from speaking on the House floor.

Sam Seder interviews PCCC Senior organizer and Director of online
marketing Forrest Brown excerpt: One of the biggest complaints from progressives across the
country today is that Democrats in power in Washington are not strong enough to fight back against Republican obstructionism and
incompetence. Luckily for progressives, there are organizations out there who are working to elect bold, tough progressive fighters to
national offices, and one of those organizations is the PCCC.

The Progressive Change Campaign Committee announced on Saturday it is spending $100,000 in the last five days before the Wisconsin gubernatorial recall vote. This latest spend brings the PCCC’s investment supporting the recall of Republican Gov. Scott Walker, plus his lieutenant and several state legislators, to $300,000, the group said, with two thirds of that coming in the last two weeks.

This pushes its investment in the state to $200,000 in the last two weeks and $300,000 overall, the group said. The latest $100,000 includes $71,000 raised for the state Dem Party and $31,000 in TV and online ads.