Time to get the recall effort brewing in Michigan? [View All]

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Joan McCarter
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/03/17/957421/-Time-to-get-the-recall-effort-brewing-in-Michigan

There were thousands of teachers, laborers, nurses, firefighters, police officers and senior citizens filling up the entire front lawn to hear calls to action from political leaders" in Lansing, Michigan yesterday.

They can actually do more than protest, with enough organization.
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/03/17/michigan-amend-and-recall/

Michigan’s constitution is unusually easy to amend, and Snyder and his allies become eligible for a recall in just over three months.

The state House and Senate Minority Leaders have already called for a state constitutional amendment protecting collective bargaining rights, but Michigan voters can bypass the legislature altogether and call for a constitutional amendment by petition and referendum....

In short, this means slightly over 300,000 signatures are required to place an amendment protecting workers’ rights on the ballot. Once the proposed amendment is on the ballot, a simple majority of the electorate can turn it into law....

As in Wisconsin, Michigan elected officials enjoy a safe haven period immediately after they take office — “a recall petition cannot be filed against an officer until the officer has performed the duties of the office to which elected for a period of 6 months during the current term of that office.” But Snyder and his legislative allies began their current terms on January 1st of this year. Accordingly, they will be eligible for a recall in July

Sounds like it's time for progressives and all the non-crazy people in Michigan to ramp up and join the recall bandwagon

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