The Michigan Legislature under the leadership of the gerrymandered majority of Republicans are working overtime to undue the will of the people during this current lame duck session. They have generated 130 bills since the Nov. 6 election which if passed – gut or seriously compromise the power given to the Dems as a result of the Mid-Term election.
Their efforts are anti-democratic, bald -faced power grabs in the last few weeks before the Dems take over the executive branch. If this doesn’t set the majority of Michigan voters’ hair on fire, nothing else will. And if you personally are shocked at the depth of this last gasp GOP backlash, join the state Democrat party officials who themselves are reeling from the GOP’s efforts to sabotage the Dem agenda.
GOP Representatives and Senators have written bills which would limit Governor. Whitmer’s plans to close line 5. They have bills which would peel away the powers of the incoming Attorney General and Secretary of State. They have decided to go after one-half of the wetlands in the state and strip them from the environmental protections they currently have. And finally they are interfering with the rules regarding the minimum wage plans by moving the date it would go into effect to 2030.
If any of these bills make it through the legislative process, they will land on Gov. Snyder’s desk to await his signature. Michigan citizens will will have to wait and see what Snyder will do. Will he embrace the bills and sign them into law? Or will he his last acts as Governor show that he does have an ounce of statesmanship and integrity to burnish his compromised?. All of this is covered in the article by columnist Brian Dickerson, in the Detroit Free Press in the link below. Dickerson coins the term “Smash and Grab” to describe what the Michigan GOP is up to.
This flurry of impediments to the incoming Dem agenda should prompt Michigan citizens to act. They cannot let the GOP get away with this underhanded effort to subvert what the majority of voters expected would happen in 2019.. Let Gov. Snyder know your opinion about this hyper-partisan power play.
Gov, Snyder – 517-373-3400governo…@michigan.gov.
Likewise consider letting our state representative.Curt Vanderwall and state senator, Darwin Booher that there are many Independents and even Republicans in their districts who will vote against this kind of dirty politics. Engaging in such overt partisan machinations will cost them votes the next time they are up for re-election.
Sen. Booher -517-373-1725sendb…@senate.michigan.gov
Rep. Vanderwall -517 -373-0825curtvan…@house.mi.gov