'Impeach Gretchen Whitmer' Petition Gains Support as Michigan Braces for COVID, Election Battles

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34. 😂 Back in 2012, republicans made recalling a politician very, very difficult after their

vile Right-to-Fire law outraged Democrats and we vowed to recall those who betrayed workers. So here's what they did:

Big changes to recall process after right-to-work vote enrage Michigan Democrats

Updated Apr 03, 2019; Posted Dec 14, 2012

By David Eggert | [e-mail]

LANSING - Legislative Republicans early Friday approved big changes to the state's procedures for recalling elected officials, drawing withering criticism from Democrats who alleged it was an act of self-preservation in the wake of the passage of a right-to-work law earlier this week.

The legislation, approved 22-16 by the Senate around 9:30 p.m. Thursday, has a combined effect of making it more difficult to recall lawmakers, the governor and local officials, Democrats said. The GOP-controlled House, which approved an earlier version of the legislation last week, agreed with the changes on a 65-40 vote after 2 a.m. Friday.

One significant change would shorten the time to collect recall signatures from 90 to 60 days. Officials subject to recalls would have opponents instead of the existing system under which recall elections are an up-or-down vote.

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"Why are you making it more difficult to recall an officeholder?" said Senate Minority Leader Gretchen Whitmer, D-East Lansing, days after the GOP quickly finalized a bill prohibiting unions from requiring workers to pay dues or fees as a condition of employment. "We are willing to work on this with you. Yet you jam it through in dark of night on the last night of a lame-duck session. ... You're trying to inoculate yourselves from a recall."

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https://www.mlive.com/news/2012/12/legislatures_changes_to_recall.html

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Those arrogant assholes thought they had gerrymandered Michigan into permanent gop rule so even if a Democratic governor was elected the state Senate supermajority would override any veto. Whoopsie.