House subcommittee bill would strip $74.8 million from Wayne State, U-M campuses

[Coyotl]

Source: freep.com

Republicans in the state House took a hard financial slap at two Michigan universities Tuesday morning, passing a funding bill through a subcommittee that would strip a total of $74.8 million in state aid from Wayne State University and the three University of Michigan campuses.

The move is in retaliation for the universities agreeing to labor contracts that were seen by Republican lawmakers as an end run around the state's new right-to-work law.

The cuts, if passed into law by the full Legislature, would likely require a tuition increase for Wayne State students, WSU spokesman Matt Lockwood said.

Read more: http://www.freep.com/article/20130319/NEWS01/130319050/House-bill-would-strip-27-5-million-from-Wayne-State-s-budget-41-million-from-U-M

[lastlib]

1. "An insightful and educated citizenry is the archenemy of tyranny."

--Thomas Jefferson

So the Republicans cut funding for education. Makes it pretty clear what their agenda is.

[leftyohiolib]

2. i surely hope the people of michigan are keeping all these things in mind for when it gets to be

voting time - it might be worth standing in a 4hour line to vote

[Botany]

3. These Koch Brother Governors and Legislatures are really the devil

Why on God's green earth would anybody vote for these people? They are at
their heart anti American and anti worker.

[Coyotl]

4. This is ALEC at work, way more than just the Koch Bros.

Granted they are the main funders

[Botany]

5. not a lot difference between the Koch brothers and ALEC

[atreides1]

7. Why?

Because they made the unions look like baby killers who worshiped Satan, that's why!

And those voters don't have the sense and intelligence that you'd find in a single cell life form, that's why!

[deancr]

6. Michigan repubs

These republicans have no respect for democracy. The regents who negotiated the contracts are elected statewide and their independent power is noted in the constitution. Remember, the rtw bill was crammed through, literally in the dead of night, by the lame duck legislature. It would not have passed with the new legislators in power. Now, the repubs are violating the state constitution because the afp/mackinac center labor team screwed up by not making the rtw law retroactive before they handed over to their legislative flunkies.
If the election were held today, most of these functionaries would be bouncing their way back to some koch hole. I can't wait for 2014.

[caseymoz]

10. That's why Repubs are pressing so hard.

They know their time is coming.

Question is how much the dems can do to repair the damage, especially in a ruined economy, which we will have as the sequester continues.

[mountain grammy]

8. They're so smart they out smart themselves...

Are there enough voters to vote these blood suckers out?
Will the legislature disinfranchise Detroit voters? Looks like they're on their way.

[lunasun]

9. terrible

[amandabeech]

11. I wonder if the legislature would be so interested in penalizing one of the

more Republican-leaning state universities if one of them were negotiating or had just signed a collective bargaining agreement.

Wayne State and Univ. of Michigan are "notorious" Dem and generally progressive places. Many of the Rep legislatures would never let their children attend Wayne or UM for fear that the children would hear people espousing liberal philosophies.

UM grad and Michigan native.

[kiranon]

12. Republicans are not pro growth or for middle or hope to be middle class

people. The way to insure economic success is not to defund the higher education system based on the ideological bent of the current legislators. Expect there will be a brain drain from Michigan to more forward looking states.