That smoking hole you see in Lansing is all that’s left of the ballot petition peddled by Reform Michigan Government Now. In a 21-page ruling, the Michigan Court of Appeals shot down the petition as unconstitutional and barred it from the November ballot. According to the unanimous decision, as reported by MIRS News […]
John Gizzi of Human Events has a nice wrap-up piece of the political state of affairs in Michigan.
Gizzi correctly analyzes the sham Reform Michigan Government Now proposal as a power grab in the tradition of hard-left subversion, larded with enough superficial items meant to appeal to conservatives to reveal the utter cynicism of its authors.
Upholding […]
Even Michigan Democrats are beginning to recognize the shameful nature of Reform Michigan Government Now! In late July, Michigan’s congressional Democrats canceled a Washington, D.C., fundraiser for the state party over concern about the propriety of the RMGN ballot measure — that measure would use legislative redistricting to disenfranchise minority Democrat candidates and Republicans […]
A new statewide poll conducted for the Michigan Chamber of Commerce shows that voters recoil the more they learn about the blatant power grab ballot initiative known as “Reform Michigan Government Now!” A previous poll by the Michigan Democratic Party showed that 70 percent of Michigan voters, including 73 percent of Republicans and 71 percent […]
A good roundup at domemagazine.com of the fallout from the discredited plot to rig Michigan’s political rules “to help Democrats.” Among the collateral damage:
“It [the court packing/redistricting rigging scheme] has already led to talk of replacing Party Chair Mark Brewer, been responsible for knocking out their [Democrats’] top-choice candidate to challenge the incumbent Supreme Court chief justice, […]
Well, at least now we know. The Lansing State Journal reports today the Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm thinks “there are a lot of good ideas” in a proposed amendment to rewrite Michigan’s Constitution and she won’t oppose it.
This is the same ballot initiative that was denounced by the Detroit News as a raw […]
The mushroom cloud rising above the Michigan Democratic Party/Reform Michigan Government Now plan just keeps getting bigger. Today, the Wall Street Journal zeroes in the sorry rationale behind this scheme to pack Michigan’s courts with liberal activists and gerrymander state voting districts to hand Democrats legislative control:
Reform Michigan’s backs want to rig the process in […]
Michigan Democratic Party chair Mark Brewer made defeating Michigan Supreme Court Justice Cliff Taylor his top priority in November. But following the spectacular implosion of a Brewer-supported scheme to rewrite Michigan’s Constitution, attorney Marietta Robinson, the leading Democratic contender for Taylor’s seat, appears to be backing away.
Detroit Free Press columnist Brian Dickerson reports that […]
Jim Copland, director for Legal Policy at the Manhattan Institute, nails the sham constitutional amendment being peddled by Reform Michigan Government Now in a Detroit News oped today. While masquerading as “good government” reform, Copland writes that the plan is actually:
an effort to seize control of each of the branches of state government to […]
The responsibility for a sleazy plot to trick Michigan voters into handing Democrats one-party rule apparently reaches all the way to the top of the Michigan Democratic Party. In a July 20th column, the Detroit Free Press’ Ron Dzwonkowski reveals the shocking truth that both Gov. Jennifer Granholm and Lt. Gov. John Cherry funneled […]
