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Bloomberg) Michigan voters angered by budget- balancing moves by Governor Rick Snyder and the Legislature are collecting signatures to force recall elections of the first- term Republican and as many as 19 state lawmakers.
There also are efforts to remove nine Wisconsin senators who fought over limits on collective-bargaining rights for public workers, and a proposed November referendum in Ohio on a law that contains similar strictures.
The moves are a response to changes Republicans have sought in difficult budget times, creating early referendums on the governors and their policies, said Paul Beck, a professor of political science at Ohio State University.
“They have moved very far, very fast, and they have created a lot of controversy in how they’ve done it,” Beck said in a telephone interview. “We’ll see how deep that reaction goes because we’ll have votes.” .............(more)
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