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
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 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 on
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