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Mon Dec 10, 2012, 04:48 PM

DonViejo (4,455 posts)

Detroit Free Press Urges Snyder To Put Right-To-Work Laws On Ballot

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Source: TPM

PEMA LEVY 4:33 PM EST, MONDAY DECEMBER 10, 2012

The Detroit Free Press urged Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder to accept a compromise from the state's Democratic congressional delegation to put right-to-work laws on the ballot rather than signing them into law, in an editorial published Monday afternoon. The right-to-work legislation already passed by the state Senate could land on the governor's desk as early as Tuesday against major opposition from Democrats and unions.

If Gov. Rick Snyder expects Michiganders to believe his professed interest in “worker choice” is anything more than the most cynical doublespeak, he’ll embrace a reasonable compromise Michigan’s Democratic congressional delegation proposed at a meeting in the governor’s Cadillac Place office Monday morning.

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Read more: http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/detroit-free-press-urges-snyder-to-put-right

Link to DFP ediorial:
http://www.freep.com/article/20121210/OPINION01/121210052/Editorial-Worker-choice-Let-Michigan-voters-decide-right-work

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Detroit Free Press Urges Snyder To Put Right-To-Work Laws On Ballot (Original post)	DonViejo	Dec 2012	OP
I call this	donco	Dec 2012	#1
that's what happened in Ohio? And, it went down	Cha	Dec 2012	#2
If he keeps representing the Koches instead of the people, I hope DFP goes after him forever.	freshwest	Dec 2012	#4
good idea	obama2terms	Dec 2012	#3
This would be nice ...	JustABozoOnThisBus	Dec 2012	#5
"Low lifes" I assume, means people who aren't owned by the Koches.	Squinch	Dec 2012	#10
"Low Lifes": Democrats, Liberals, you know ...	JustABozoOnThisBus	Dec 2012	#12
The "Not Our Kind Dear" set.	Squinch	Dec 2012	#13
"You people" n/t	Tempest	Dec 2012	#14
Not possible, apparently.	armodem08	Dec 2012	#16
Yup, attach an appropriation to the bill and make it immune to a referendum.	Bozita	Dec 2012	#17
We had a choice on the ballot. The Free Press went with Snyder	Union Scribe	Dec 2012	#6
That endorsement by the DFP was used extensively in the Anti-Prop 2 ads.	Bozita	Dec 2012	#18
It'll never happen	rachel1	Dec 2012	#7
Can he be recalled (again)? There is a Facebook page already.	Coyotl	Dec 2012	#8
2,912 likes	Coyotl	Dec 2012	#9
Spam deleted by gkhouston (MIR Team)	Capester79	Dec 2012	#11
Damn hardware store is all out of Pitchforks	James48	Dec 2012	#15

Response to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Dec 10, 2012, 04:53 PM

donco (1,073 posts)

1. I call this

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a hail Mary...but sometimes they work.

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Mon Dec 10, 2012, 04:56 PM

Cha (124,404 posts)

2. that's what happened in Ohio? And, it went down

down down?

At least he's being asked to do the right thing by the Paper who endorsed him.

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Mon Dec 10, 2012, 05:17 PM

freshwest (31,286 posts)

4. If he keeps representing the Koches instead of the people, I hope DFP goes after him forever.

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Mon Dec 10, 2012, 05:10 PM

obama2terms (338 posts)

3. good idea

I hope they put this on the ballot, let the people decide!

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Mon Dec 10, 2012, 05:18 PM

JustABozoOnThisBus (9,913 posts)

5. This would be nice ...

... but I don't see him handing his Koch-bought win over to some low-lifes across the aisle.

Maybe there's a way to reverse it via a referendum or something. Like what was done with his Emergency Manager bullshit.

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Mon Dec 10, 2012, 05:44 PM

Squinch (3,016 posts)

10. "Low lifes" I assume, means people who aren't owned by the Koches.

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Mon Dec 10, 2012, 06:00 PM

JustABozoOnThisBus (9,913 posts)

12. "Low Lifes": Democrats, Liberals, you know ...

... us.

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Mon Dec 10, 2012, 07:19 PM

Squinch (3,016 posts)

13. The "Not Our Kind Dear" set.

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Mon Dec 10, 2012, 07:53 PM

Tempest (14,028 posts)

14. "You people" n/t

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Mon Dec 10, 2012, 11:24 PM

armodem08 (201 posts)

16. Not possible, apparently.

The MI GOP attached the right to work measure to an appropriations bill, making the referendum option impossible.

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Mon Dec 10, 2012, 11:40 PM

Bozita (26,949 posts)

17. Yup, attach an appropriation to the bill and make it immune to a referendum.

Thanks, ALEC!

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Mon Dec 10, 2012, 05:27 PM

Union Scribe (4,700 posts)

6. We had a choice on the ballot. The Free Press went with Snyder

and the defeat of Proposal 2 that would have put our rights in the constitution! But THEY said we didn't NEED that. Assholes.

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Mon Dec 10, 2012, 11:43 PM

Bozita (26,949 posts)

18. That endorsement by the DFP was used extensively in the Anti-Prop 2 ads.

My thanks to the DFP for being Detroit's "liberal" newspaper.

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Mon Dec 10, 2012, 05:30 PM

rachel1 (538 posts)

7. It'll never happen

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because the voters would overwhelmingly oppose it.

If it does pass in the MI legislature then the voters should petition to place it on a ballot for which they can vote to oppose it's enforcement like the voters of Ohio did when they opposed that anti-labor bill passed by the repukes in 2011.

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Mon Dec 10, 2012, 05:37 PM

Coyotl (5,152 posts)

8. Can he be recalled (again)? There is a Facebook page already.

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https://www.facebook.com/pages/Recall-Rick-Snyder-Governor-of-Michigan/190420440979074

Report: Effort to recall Michigan governor fizzles
The Associated Press By The Associated Press
on September 29, 2011
http://www.mlive.com/lansing-news/index.ssf/2011/09/report_effort_to_recall_michig.html

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Two newspapers report an effort to recall Republican Gov. Rick Snyder is fizzling.

The Detroit Free Press on Wednesday cited an e-mail from campaign spokesman Tom Bryant saying "the recall effort will be coming to an end." ...

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Mon Dec 10, 2012, 05:39 PM

Coyotl (5,152 posts)

9. 2,912 likes

fyi

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Mon Dec 10, 2012, 05:47 PM

Capester79 (6 posts)

11. Spam deleted by gkhouston (MIR Team)

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Mon Dec 10, 2012, 09:05 PM

James48 (923 posts)

15. Damn hardware store is all out of Pitchforks

and they were down to their last half-dozen torches.

See you in Lansing tomorrow!

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