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

[DonViejo]

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

[donco]

1. I call this

a hail Mary...but sometimes they work.

[Cha]

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.

[freshwest]

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

[obama2terms]

3. good idea

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

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

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.

[Squinch]

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

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

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

... us.

[Squinch]

13. The "Not Our Kind Dear" set.

[Tempest]

14. "You people" n/t

[armodem08]

16. Not possible, apparently.

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

[Bozita]

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

Thanks, ALEC!

[Union Scribe]

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.

[Bozita]

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.

[rachel1]

7. It'll never happen

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.

[Coyotl]

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

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." ...

[Coyotl]

9. 2,912 likes

fyi

[Capester79]

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[James48]

15. Damn hardware store is all out of Pitchforks

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

See you in Lansing tomorrow!