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Originally Posted by AGDee
It's getting pretty scary, isn't it? I feel very helpless and hopeless. I keep thinking "How are they getting away with this?" How do you withhold funds owed to a city or school district, put it in a financial crisis, then declare that it is in a financial crisis and take it over, eliminating all the elected officials? How is that legal? How do you ban legislators from being able to speak on the floor for no reason whatsoever? How do you decide to build a totally unnecessary second bridge to Canada? How do you deny a petition for the EFM law being put to a statewide vote because it supposedly isn't in 14 point font when the printer who created them says it is and used the same font that they used on all the other ACCEPTED petitions in the state. http://www.freep.com/article/2012061...cy-manager-law
I love this Rochelle Riley article.. I usually love her articles:
http://www.freep.com/article/2012061...-and-democracy
I feel like I'm living in an alternate reality state. One without democracy or a republic. My only hope is that this encourages people to get out and vote in the fall. |
Amen to all of this. I never vote Republican, but I just didn't see any of this coming. I do remember Gov. Snyder stating that he was interested in getting Michigan back on track financially...that's where his business expertise came in, and that he was not interested in opening the floodgates on social issues like abortion, etc. Well, that didn't last long.