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LovingA2andMI

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9. Could Have....
Mon Jan 4, 2016, 11:11 PM
Jan 2016

But the story is deeper than that. Emergency Manager Law 1.0 -P.A 4 of 2011 -- which was REPEATED -- then three weeks later redrafted with pretty much the same langauge --changing a couple of words -- with Emergency Manager Law 2.0 P.A 436 of 2012.

An $1 Million Dollar Appropriation was placed on EM Law 2.0 to make it referendum proof.

Then Right to Work for Less bill was passed three days later. Upwards of 10,000 people was in Lansing -- at the Capitol saying NO to Right to Work for Less. The Governor signed in anyway.

The long story short (and its longer than what is told above) is that many People were defeated. Especially the voters in urban areas Democrats need to win in Michigan. Heck, nearly all the Urban Areas had a Emergency Manager of some form or the other.

Thus, is why in 2014, the election turn out was about 36%.

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Right. It's up to the criminal to rule on the crime. WhiteHat Jan 2016 #1
It's Karma.... LovingA2andMI Jan 2016 #2
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36% voter turnout. Dawson Leery Jan 2016 #8
Could Have.... LovingA2andMI Jan 2016 #9
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