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HOW TO GET TO CONGRESS June 11-17, 2014 East Lansing native Abby Clark on managing Schertzing campaign | p. 5 DIGITAL SAVVY City of Lansing hiring a social media manager to boost online presence | p. 7 CREOLE GALLERY SOLD New owner to transform longtime art gallery into restaurant | P. 12 NEW CRAVINGS LOCATION Specialty popcorn shop opens in Okemos | p. 27 2 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • June 11, 2014 JUNE 20 & 21 FROM ART COMPETITION AND AUCTION FRIDAY & SATURDAY JUNE 20 & 21 2014 OLDTOWNSCRAPFEST.COM LIVE and ONLINE AUCTION BEGINS JUNE 21 AT 7PM! City Pulse • June 11, 2014 www.lansingcitypulse.com 3 4 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • June 11, 2014 VOL. 13 Feedback ISSUE 43 Political wisdom stop voting for to elect, or re-elect candi- In view of the fact that 2014 marks a dates who only speak political platitudes, (517) 371-5600 • Fax: (517) 999-6061 • 1905 E. 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CITY PULSE Editor & Publisher on the THIS WEEK Berl Schwartz 9 7 p.m. Wednesdays AIR Mark Schauer, Democratic gubernatorial candidate THIS WEEK: Mark Schauer’s campaign Hosted by Jon Lum, Board Member of the Allen Neighborhood Center Berl Schwartz Denise Paquette, Health and Housing Outreach Director, Allen Neighborhood Center Newsmakers Katherine Draper, Executive Director of the Greater Lansing Housing Coalition CITY PULSE SUSAN DEMAS BERNIE PORN EDITOR/PUBLISHER, INSIDE MICHIGAN POLITICS PRESIDENT OF EPIC-MRA Watch past episodes at vimeo.com/channels/citypulse City Pulse • June 11, 2014 www.lansingcitypulse.com 5 PULSE NEWS & OPINION based fundraising arm for House Demo- ers” as a social liberal and a fiscal con- crats, to go back to work in her home dis- servative, playing up his priority for Managing the trict. She’s in full swing as the campaign finding consensus on both sides of the manager for Ingham County Treasurer aisle. While Clark knows less of Darga Eric Schertzing, one of four Democrats and Hank, she recently saw Gretten- C seeking to replace Rogers. berger speak at a public event. Schertzing “It’s unusual in the extreme, I think, “I don’t think we have substantial OF THE WEEK for the (DCCC) to place a campaign policy differences with Susan,” she manager in their home district,” Clark said. “Eric is the stronger, more viable campaign said. Such a quality isn’t necessarily high candidate.” on the recruiting checklist, she said. But National political organiza- ever since Rogers announced his retire- Warren ties tion recruits East Lansing native ment, Democrats in Washington have In July 2012, while working on Abby Clark, former field organiz- eyed up the 8th, which includes all of Ing- Obama’s reelection campaign for the er for U.S. Sen. Elizabeth War- ham and Livingston counties and north- nonprofit Organizing for Action, Clark ren, to manage Eric Schertzing’s ern Oakland County. It’s perhaps the got a call from a friend in Massachusetts congressional campaign party’s best chance since 2000 for taking who was working for Warren’s campaign, the seat, which has been redistricted to which had just undergone a “big internal Abby Clark got her first taste for benefit Republicans. Schertzing will have shakeup.” Warren was polling behind Re- politics at a time when many people her to beat three other Democrats from Lan- publican incumbent Scott Brown. age couldn’t have cared less for the “When I got that call, it was a Democratic process. It was 2000, chance to go big,” Clark said. “I she had just turned 18 years old, the had been obsessed with Elizabeth economy was booming and apathy Warren for some time.” Within a Property: 810 West Grand River (Psi Upsilon ran strong among her peers. month, she moved to the East Fraternity), East Lansing An East Lansing native, Clark Coast. majored in political science at the While her job as deputy field University of Michigan, “something director didn’t bring her much Built in 1926, this building serves as I was interested in but I never really interaction with Warren, Clark the home of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity at thought it would be a career.” She said, “She is wonderful. Not ev- Michigan State University. Built in the called herself a progressive activist ery candidate is a dream to work Italian Renaissance style, it borrows details in those years and “worked my ass with. She is the real deal. What directly from original Italian sources. At the off for Al Gore.” Then the election you see is what you get.” height of the style’s popularity, between 1890 happened and the United States Warren, a former Harvard and 1935, advances in photography and travel embarked on an eight-year slog un- Law School professor, is perhaps accommodations allowed designers to study der George W. Bush. best known for her work on con- genuine Italian examples, either in person or “A lot of us really got our hearts sumer protection advocacy. She through photos. As a result, the revival build- broken,” Clark, 32, said of the was chairwoman of a congressio- ings provide reasonably accurate representa- 2000 election. “Growing up in the nal oversight panel to oversee the tions of authentic Italian buildings. ‘90s, there was a lot of ‘your vote Troubled Asset Relief Program Two projecting wings flank the main body doesn’t matter.’ and was an assistant to the presi- of this light colored brick building. Thin “Then that election happened. dent for the Consumer Financial classical columns support the triple arches When it comes down to hanging Protection Bureau before being at the recessed front porch. Notable, smaller chads in Florida, the argument elected to the Senate. Along with details include the double rowlock headers, that your vote doesn’t matter kind Hillary Clinton, Warren is also wide eaves, decorative brackets and the stone Alexa McCarthy/City Pulse accents on the chimney and belt course. of went out the window. That had Ingham County Treasurer Eric Schertzing consults with his rumored by pundits as a possible The most impressive detail of this build- a big impact on me.” campaign manager, Abby Clark, in their East Lansing office.