As important as any story out there from Det. Free press. The Michigan dictatorship voted out. [View all]

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LANSING — Michigan voters have rejected the state’s toughened emergency manager law, Public Act 4 of 2011.

With 93% of precincts reporting, 52% of state voters said no to keeping the controversial law, while 48% said yes.

The outcome is a blow to Gov. Rick Snyder, who was successful in opposing five proposed constitutional amendments Tuesday, including one that would have required a statewide vote on the proposed public bridge to Canada that he champions.

It also puts in doubt the status of emergency financial managers in Michigan cities and school districts who have been operating under the former law, Public Act 72 of 1990, since Public Act 4 was suspended in August.

And the repeal clouds the issue of the financial stability agreement between the state and the financially troubled city of Detroit, which was approved pursuant to the law.

The group Stand up for Democracy, which pushed for the repeal of the emergency manager law, takes the position that the 1990 law has already been repealed and there is no emergency manager law today.

Snyder argues otherwise, though there has also been discussion of passing a replacement law during the pending lame duck session of the Legislature.

Full article here: http://laborspains.blogspot.com/2012/11/michigans-toughened-emergency-manager.html

originally posted here: http://www.freep.com/article/20121107/NEWS15/121107008