Time to get the recall effort brewing in Michigan?

Joan McCarter
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/03/17/957421/-Time-to-get-the-recall-effort-brewing-in-Michigan

There were thousands of teachers, laborers, nurses, firefighters, police officers and senior citizens filling up the entire front lawn to hear calls to action from political leaders" in Lansing, Michigan yesterday.

They can actually do more than protest, with enough organization.
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/03/17/michigan-amend-and-recall/

Michigan’s constitution is unusually easy to amend, and Snyder and his allies become eligible for a recall in just over three months.

The state House and Senate Minority Leaders have already called for a state constitutional amendment protecting collective bargaining rights, but Michigan voters can bypass the legislature altogether and call for a constitutional amendment by petition and referendum....

In short, this means slightly over 300,000 signatures are required to place an amendment protecting workers’ rights on the ballot. Once the proposed amendment is on the ballot, a simple majority of the electorate can turn it into law....

As in Wisconsin, Michigan elected officials enjoy a safe haven period immediately after they take office — “a recall petition cannot be filed against an officer until the officer has performed the duties of the office to which elected for a period of 6 months during the current term of that office.” But Snyder and his legislative allies began their current terms on January 1st of this year. Accordingly, they will be eligible for a recall in July

Sounds like it's time for progressives and all the non-crazy people in Michigan to ramp up and join the recall bandwagon

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That's the question. There are a lot of crazy teabaggers here in Oakland County. And, I assume West Michigan is full of them.

but bring 'em on. It's do or die here now. There is more of us than there are of them.

It's obvious now that Scott Walker and the Fitzgerald Brothers in the legislature rammed through a bill to take away collective bargaining rights of Wisconsin workers for purely political reasons.

Now that they have succeeded in doing the bidding of the anti-union Koch Industries, they are heading to a high priced Washington DC lobbying firm to collect their first political payoffs for their assault on the working people of Wisconsin.

According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the Fitzgerald’s along with several other GOP legislators are heading to Washington DC to meet with high powered, big spending lobbyists. The price for admission to this corporate victory lap is high--the Koch Brothers and other high-powered lobbyists will have to fork over $5000 to host, $2500 to sponsor or $1000...JUST TO GET IN THE DOOR.

While working families are under assault in Wisconsin, Assembly Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald and Governor Scott Walker will be toasting with the corporate elite and a crowd of big spending Washington lobbyists. Attacking hard working families in Wisconsin and jetting off to toast with high priced lobbyists is not the Wisconsin way.



I would not be surprised if Michigan Gop is going to them for their rewards too..

You could get 300,000 sigs in an eyeblink here. Once the majority realizes what the repug agenda means for this state (a lot have figured it out already)it won't be difficult. Once the dumbass kicks out the movie industry, takes over a city or two and fires everyone to put in his cronies at $300,000 a year to sell off all municipal assets at a fraction of their worth, kills off every union in the state, and drags the economy down further, he'll be fired.

I simply don't understand why we can't.