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
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 deadline, a challenge to that petition against the emergency manager law indeed came in. a group calling itself citizens for fiscal responsibility filed this brief against the emergency manager law. no matter how many names are on that law, they can not be put oç the ballot for a recall.
one of them, jeff timmer, look what else is in his bio. he also serves on the michigan board of state canvassers. that same board that s now going to be deciding whether the font is too small to overturn the emergency manager law, which his colleague is asking for. so this guy is like the pitcher and the empire at the same time. you ve got citizens for responsibility challenging the positions from inside a consulting firm and getting represented by the senior counsel for that republican firm while one of the firm partners serves on the board that is going to impartially decide whether citizens for fiscal responsibility gets to stop this act of democracy in michigan because the font is a a hair too small. on it is website, sterling corporation talks itself up this way. sterling blends aggressive
the emergency law. above his name, sterling lists three partners in the firm. one of them, jeff timmer, look what else is in his bio. he also serves on the michigan board of state canvassers. that same board that s now going to be deciding whether the font is too small to overturn the emergency manager law, which his colleague is asking for. so this guy is like the pitch cher and the empire at the same time. you ve got citizens for responsibility challenging the positions from inside a consulting firm and getting represented by the senior counsel for that republican firm while one of the firm partners serves on the board that is going to impartially decide whether citizens for fiscal responsibility gets to stop this act of democracy in michigan because the font is a a hair too small.site, sterling
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