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How can we have voted for Obama but against everything he stands for? How can people here vote for pollution, loss of workplace rights, screwing over the elderly, and against the power of their own vote by approving unelected government? Selfish idiots.
joesdaughter
(243 posts)Wednesdays
(17,402 posts)Just a hunch.
erinlough
(2,176 posts)This state is getting very hard to live in.
TahitiNut
(71,611 posts)The lemmings run in herds to commit suicide for the sake of the vultures.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,362 posts)I guess I used up most of my embarrassment back when we elected Snyder. Undo the Republican stranglehold on state govt and the other ballot measures could be enacted without amendments.
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(7,099 posts)JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)Simple as that. All those changes to our state constitution at once? Short sighted. Especially with the fact massive money would be poured in to defeat this changes.
I never harbored much hope for any of them. We should have pushed forward on one or two at a time.
Hopefully we learn from this going forward.
Julie
1gobluedem
(6,664 posts)Too many all at once. But thank God Prop 1 went down.
TruthTeller
(192 posts)I never heard about prop 3 petitions. Matty M. put 2 props--5 & 6 on the ballot. EM law prop not backed by all unions. Prop 4 was being collected by Matty M. collectorsin Royal Oak. Who did the overreach?
susanna
(5,231 posts)I supported most of these initiatives on their face, but making practically all of them Constitutional Amendments scared off a lot of people I know. The Detroit Free Press - our more liberal paper - didn't endorse most of them for that very reason.
michigandem58
(1,044 posts)Prop 2 just seemed to make collective bargaining trump state law. The energy and home health care initiatives are worthy, it just doesn't seem they should be in the constitution.