Michigan GOP seeks to castrate incoming DEMs Gov, SOS, AG

[laserhaas]

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According to Detroit News -
https://amp.detroitnews.com/amp/2150818002?__twitter_impression=true


GOP moves to dilute power of Governor, AG, SOS

With Democrats set to take over top statewide offices next year, Michigan Republicans are considering proposals that would allow the Legislature to intervene in legal battles and shift oversight of the state’s campaign finance law to a new commission.

The lame-duck power plays would limit the power of Gov.-elect Gretchen Whitmer, Attorney General Dana Nessel and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson. Democrats have not held all three posts since 1990.

A House bill introduced Thursday by state Rep. Rob VerHeulen, R-Walker, and quickly praised by Republican leaders seeks to guarantee the GOP-led Legislature could intervene in legal battles involving state laws that Democrats may be hesitant to defend.

A separate proposal from Sen. Dave Robertson, R-Grand Blanc, would shift oversight of the Michigan Campaign Finance Act from the Secretary of State’s Office to a newly proposed “fair political practices commission.”

Worst than Philadelphia, are Michigan Experiments

PLEASE TAKE NOTE - Of the empirical - alarmings

1. Michigan is Romney country
2. Scott Romney ripped off Chippewa for $800 million
3. GOP inserted - City Managers - took over
4. 1 million signatures to remove City Managers - Tossed
5. Rhona Romney head of GOP nationwide
6. Trump wants Rhona to remain for 2020
7. Flint Michigan water debacle
8. University Kicker rape case - covered up

This is worse than the "Philadelphia Experiment" because it is going beyond the Twilight Zone, up there, in Michigan

Evidently, the Republican party considers the great State of Michigan to be the proving grounds for GOP schemes.

Michigan citizens find that their votes voices and petition signatures, 1 million plus - don't matter.

Their democracy & sense of decency - is getting screwed!

And it seems there isn't a dam thing anybody can do!

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[safeinOhio]

1. and now a couple of repubs have introduced a bill to

change the Recreational Cannabis law that we voted on to ban growing cannabis at home. Big business growers donate money.

Michigan use to have decent republican before John Engler and Amway.

[roamer65]

10. If they mutate Prop 1, Governor Whitmer will veto it.

[meow2u3]

2. This coup attempt is screaming for a lawsuit

WTH is it with repunks in the legislature and their transparent attempts to usurp executive power when a Democrat is elected governor?

[still_one]

3. What the Democrats in Michigan need to do is delay any legislation from getting passed from this

draconian republican legislature.

The only other option would be for the populace to vote the republicans out of the state legislature in 2020 with a vengeance

I am not sure there is grounds for a lawsuit. Is it illegal for the legislature to take power away from a Governor?

[woodsprite]

4. Didn't a similar situation go down in one of the Carolinas

The Dem governor brought suit and won?

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/roy-cooper-sues-north-carolina-gop-constitutional-amendments

Looks like their still fighting it. Verizon is acting up this morning and some of the articles won’t come up.

[G_j]

5. Same here in N.C...nt

[laserhaas]

6. Our nation's politico system is going off the deep end

[StevieM]

7. And the Democrats can't repeal the legislation due to gerrymandered legislative districts.

This is not democracy.

[Snotcicles]

8. Gretchen Whitmer Jocelyn Benson and Dana Nessel. I don't think "castrate" fits very well. nt

[Snotcicles]

9. There is also a turd named Joe Bellino-R down in Monroe Mi that wants to end a very successful

voter approved bottle return law that has been in effect for forty years. He happens to own a beverage store.

[sarcasmo]

11. Wisconsin is playing the same game.

[D_Master81]

12. Isnt this what they do now?

When they lose they try to strip the new Dem of power.