pontiac. what he wanted to do may be great deal for him. it s not just this one town. pontiac and detroit and a lot of other places in michigan have trouble, major financial trouble. but why is the solution to the problems to get rid of democracy, to get rid of elected officials and the quaint american idea that we vote for american officials to represent us to make decisions about what is best for our towns. why is unilateral authority by one person better? is democracy a problem in america now? is it a bad system of government? is it to risky when the going gets rough? does it only work in rich places? is important yok beater off for having its fate in the hand of the guy that made this deal than the city council who wouldn t have done it this way? earlier this year they put enough signatures in a petition drive for the republican governor s radically expanded emergency manager law up for a citizens repeal.
earlier this year they put republican governor s radically expanded emergency manager law up for a citizens repeal. last month the republicans on a state election board threw the hundreds of thousands of signatures out. they said they could not be sure that the type was large enough. they could not be sure that the font size on one part might be big enough. with worrying about that, they decided the throw out all those signatures. doesn t matter that they got enough. the group trying to overturn the new radically expanded emergency manager law in michigan will get a hearing on their appeal next week before a panel of elected judges. the people in michigan tell us we ll almost surely end up in the state supreme court where the judges are elected and come with party ties. michigan s republican governor has filed a friend of the court brief telling the court to protect the emergency manager law that he says he considers
well. they want it taught approximate up for a citizens repeal. on the last day of february, theyç caravanned to the state capital to lansing and delivered 50 box of signed petitions to the board of state canvasser. the petitions included roughly 60,000 more signatures than they need to get on the ballot. the board of state canvas sers have been counting and verifying the signatures ever since and they are close to finishing up. here s the really interesting part. in michigan, you are allowed to try to block a petition drive. you can make a formal legal challenge saying that the petition itself is flawed somehow and so whatever that petition wants done shouldn t be allowed to go forward. this board of state canvassers is the board that makes decisions like that. they set a deadline for challenging the petition again the emergency manager law. a deadline of this past monday, april 9th at 5:00 p.m. with 52 minutes to go before the
law is not about democracy, not at all. do you want to see something in michigan that is about democracy? these boxes contain a couple of a hundred thousand signatures. just as some people are trying to put governor rick snyder on the recall, organizers are ç trying to put the emergency manager law on the ballot as well. they want it taught approximate up for a citizens repeal. on the last day of february, they caravanned to the state capital to lansing and delivered 50 box of signed petitions to the board of state canvasser. the petitions included roughly 60,000 more signatures than they need to get on the ballot. the board of state canvas sers have been counting and verifying the signatures ever since and they are close to finishing up. here s the really interesting part. in michigan, you are allowed to try to block a petition drive. you can make a formal legal challenge saying that the petition itself is flawed somehow and so whatever that petition wants done shouldn t be allowed
it s a very high threshold you have to cross. a school board in muskegeon heights will appoint an overseer to stripping power from the elected school board to maybe dissolving the whole district if he or she wants to. this is how michigan rolls now. in michigan now, democracy is not a way we solve problems. democracy is a problem itself that has to be got around. the republicans are in full control of the state of michigan since the 2010 elections and their expanded emergency manager law is not about democracy, not at all. do you want to see something in michigan that is about democracy? these boxes contain a couple of a hundred thousand signatures. just as some people are trying to put governor rick snyder on the recall, organizers are trying to put the emergency manager law on the ballot as well. they want it taught approximate up for a citizens repeal. on the last day of february, they caravanned to the state capital to lansing and delivered 50 box of signed petitions to the board o