snyder s new version of the law gives an emergency overseer complete control of any town that s been taken over. an emergency overseer like the one in benton harbor can strip all power from local elected officials. he can remove them from office. he can abolish their offices altogether. he can cancel contracts. he can even move to dissolve the whole town, just take it off the map. on one man s decision. benton harbor was taken over by the state under the old law. in april under the enhanced version their emergency manager issued an order that said the outcome of benton harbor s local elections was in effect being overthrown, overruled. what the people of that town voted for, null and void. the emergency manager decreed that the elected town commission no longer had any power. based on his own ruling, he alone would be the government of benton harbor. the fact of the matter is, the city manager is now gone. i am the city manager. i replaced the finance director. so i m the finance dir
gives an emergency overseer complete control of any town that s been taken over. an emergency overseer like the one in benton harbor can strip all power from local elected officials. he can remove them from office. he can abolish their offices altogether. he can cancel contracts. he can even move to dissolve the whole town, just take it off the map. on one man s decision. benton harbor was taken over by the state under the old law. in april under the enhanced version their emergency manager issued an order that said the outcome of boent harbor s local elections was in effect being overthrown, overruled. what the people of that town voted for, null and void. the emergency manager decreed that the elected town commission no longer had any power. based on his own ruling, he alone would be the government of benton harbor. the fact of the matter is, the city manager is now gone. i am the city manager. i replaced the finance director. so i m the finance director and the city manager. i am
to replace all locally elected officials. under rick snyder s law, his state government can abolish whole michigan towns, take them over and declare them no more. doesn t matter who you elected to run your town, who you elected for mayor. governor snyder reserves the right to take it over. he did that in benton harbor, in michigan. he decided to overrule all local election results and install someone with unilateral personal authority to run benton harbor. benton harbor residents nevertheless voted this week. on tuesday, they voted down all seven of the ballot measures this emergency overseer guy just unilaterally on his own decided to put on the ballot. according to the residents votes, benton harbor elected a new mayor. those votes are all pretty much moot. they went out and went through the motions of voting. thanks to the emergency manager law, votes in that part of michigan don t have any effect anymore. local elections are overruled by the state. for your own good. so hey, bento
game. the people you voted for, they ll take power when and if this emergency overseer from the state who is unilaterally running your town ever decides to leave. it s benton harbor now, they say they re going to do it to flint, michigan, next. congratulations.
astounding amounts of new power. the detroit schools manager said he had been frustrated under the hold manager law. they were allowed to have an elected school board and they did not always want what he wanted. the new law passed by rick snyder would do away with that complication. that new power has the detroit schools emergency overseer guy licking his chops. listen to how he described it to the detroit news. he said i do drool when i think of the pace of change we could achieve under the new law. power, tastes great, more thrilling. i do drool. but the fact is, this guy used to feel throttled by the people the people of detroit elected to make decisions. now, under the new law, whoever you elect is totally irreallevi.