november ballot, they are getting to work on that. joining us now is reverend david bullock, pastor of st. matthew s baptist church and president of the detroit chapter of the rainbow p.u.s.h. coalition. he s an advocate for repeal of the emergency manager law. thank you for your time tonight. nice to see you again. rachel, good to see you. thank you for having me on the show. i imagine you re rather ecstatic about the court ruling, the fact that michigan is going to get a chance to vote on this. do you get to start your campaign in earnest to make your case to the state now? what s the first step? the first step is celebration. while it s a partial victory, today we realize that the people united can never be defeated. we were in the ring against the twin giants of technical difficulty and tyranny and we won a blow for democracy today. all of the volunteers in benton harbor, and flint, bishop jefferson, in detroit, the committee to stand up for democracy. the detroit branch naac
law so they have more powers and abilities to come in, do their work, finish their work, and leave the community sooner than in the past. and i think that s a good outcome. you know, since governor snyder signed his new emergency manager law, none of the cities under emergency management have had the emergency manager leave. none of them have gotten their democracies back like he s promising here. but hey, it s early days. and this looks to be the first ad of the referendum campaign. remember, this waw done before the court ruling. snyder and his side are already fully in gear to try to hold on to the emergency manager law they like so much. but on the other side, the people who have been trying to repeal governor snyder s law have been working flat out the last three months to try to get the courts to intervene. so their side is three months behind in terms of the campaign, in terms of making their case to the public. a poll last week found them trailing by ten points. but they have
do it again. to put the signal legislation up for repeal, to put it up above the voters this november. this court ruling is news news. and it is complicated. nobody quite knows what is going to happen now. once the elections board certified the referendum which the high supreme court just ordered, that s going to freeze governor snyder s law until the november vote. think about that. that s really important. there s a dictator in charge of all these parts of michigan. it s not clear what happened to the muskegon heights school system, its not clear what happens to all of the union contracts that got rewritten in flint and pontiac and detroit. does benton harbor get its radio station back? it s not clear. yesterday, governor snyder posted a video about why michigan needs his emergency manager law. you ll see the sound and the picture are not quite synced up but you ll get the point. in the event we do need an emergency manager, we change the
abilities to come in, do their work, finish their work, and leave the community sooner than in the past. and i think that s a good outcome. well, you know, since governor snyder signs his new emergency manager law, none of the cities under emergency management have had the emergency manager leave. none of them have gotten their democracies back like he s promising here. but, hey, you know, it s early days. and this looks to be the first ad of the referendum campaign. remember, this was done before the court ruling. snyder and his side are already fully in gear to try to hold on to the emergency manager law that they like so much. but on the other side, the people who have been trying to repeal governor snyder s law have been working flat out the last three months to try to get the courts to intervene. so their side is three months behind in terms of the campaign, in terms of making their case to the public. a poll last week found them trailing by ten points. but they have plenty of r
governor snyder s signal legislation up for repeal, to put it up before the voters this november. this court ruling is news news. and it is complicated. nobody quite knows exactly what is going to happen now. once the elections board certified the referendum which the high court just ordered, that s going to freeze governor snyder s law until the november vote. think about that. that s really important. there s a dictator in charge of all these parts of michigan. it s not clear what happens now, for instance, to the muskegon heights school district where the emergency manager converted the whole thing to a charter system. it s not clear what happens to all the union contracts that just got rewritten in flint and pontiac and detroit. does benton harbor get its radio station back? it s not clear. yesterday, governor snyder posted a video about why michigan needs his emergency manager law. you ll watch closely, you ll see the sound and the picture are not quite synced up, but you ll get t