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Michigan Politics: Dem Trifecta!!!
enlightenedbum
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So from my neck of the woods, we have this.
This is, of course, via the Emergency Financial Manager Law we repealed at the ballot box in November, but our wonderful state legislature and governor told the citizens to collectively fuck off and passed a new one, and as a bonus made it so we can't repeal it at the ballot box this time, because technically it's a "spending bill."
As a sidenote, and this is totally unexpected and unintended /sarcasm! Half of the state's African Americans no longer have an elected local government.
EDIT: Oh right, approximate cost to the state so far: $1 billion.
Citing runaway deficits and long-term debts Detroit could never repay on its own, Gov. Rick Snyder today pulled the trigger and announced he will appoint an emergency financial manager for the state’s largest city. Snyder said he has a top candidate in mind, and that person would be in charge for 18 months.
The decision means Motown will soon have a new boss in charge of restructuring Detroit’s dire financial mess. That restructuring likely will include drastic cuts in public services and a top-down rethinking of the type of government a shrunken city with a dwindling tax base can afford.
In many ways, those questions have been nipping at Detroit for decades, but the issues came to a head over the last 18 months as increasingly dour economic forecasts found a city unable to address fundamental questions about its debt.
“I look at today as a sad day, a day I wish had never happened in the history of Detroit, but also a day of optimism and promise,” Snyder said.
This is, of course, via the Emergency Financial Manager Law we repealed at the ballot box in November, but our wonderful state legislature and governor told the citizens to collectively fuck off and passed a new one, and as a bonus made it so we can't repeal it at the ballot box this time, because technically it's a "spending bill."
As a sidenote, and this is totally unexpected and unintended /sarcasm! Half of the state's African Americans no longer have an elected local government.
EDIT: Oh right, approximate cost to the state so far: $1 billion.
The idea that your vote is a moral statement about you or who you vote for is some backwards ass libertarian nonsense. Your vote is about society. Vote to protect the vulnerable.
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This isn't some third world country, we don't fucking dissolve our elected governments on whims because the higher ups don't like how it's going and do it how they want.
I grew up just outside of Detroit, though I haven't lived there in well over a decade; but this shit still touches home because I have a lot of friends and some in-laws back there. I've been following the whole 'takeover' nonsense since it started and every step I've just been in complete disbelief.
It just feels like something should be happening here, that is not. I know it'd make some of the crazies out there in rural MI with their militias nuts, but it seems like the federal government should be stepping in here and saying "uh...you don't get to just toss out governments you don't like and do whatever the fuck you want" Isn't that precisely the sort of shit that we, you know, fought a revolution over?
Is this something that is going to court at all? There's no way this could survive a constitutional test.
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It's still super shitty though.
Local governments aren't recognized by the US constitution. They exist and operate only according to state law - they're extensions of state government.
So long as they're still allowed to vote for state representatives, that's covered.
That seems like a very dangerous state of mind to adhere to.
Why? There's no inalienable right for some people to have some particular extra level of government at the local level, and it's not like individual localities have a particularly good record when it comes to good governance.
Surely we're not all, States' Rights are dumb, but Cities', Towns' and Counties' Rights..
Perhaps they ought to, but legally they do not.
That really depends on the state constitutions. They, too, are legally binding documents, and many of them are very explicit about the lines and responsibilities between the state, county and municipal governments.
Specifically, corporate cronies who will be selling off the city's assets at discount prices (50/50 whoever gets them will coincidentally be in the blind trust Snyder's got while he's our Governor).
That's true, too.
The right of the people to a democratically elected locality isn't Localities' Rights.
Sure it is, if you're asserting that they have power they can wield in contravention of the authority of the encompassing body.
I am pretty much expecting them to bring on a Ron Swanson type here and I am not looking forward to the changes you can expect from that kind of thinking
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Ron Swanson is many things, but a corrupt douchebag is not one of them.
Unfortunately, I don't think Mike Ilitch is going to turn into Batman
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Well, there has to be an earthquake first that isolates Detroit from the country.
Mike Ilitch has pretty shitty politics.
Lidstrom would be our Batman. Or Barry Sanders.
I have no idea how it works in Michigan, but in Virginia a lot of that stuff is also explicitly part of the municipal charter.
Barry quit on Detroit once already (not that I blame him). The only athelete with experience in doing a thankless job in Detroit is obviously Chris Osgood
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Also the guy responsible for denying Verlander is sleeping with Kate Upton. But we digress.
Cause yeah, in a lot of states your municipal governments are just arms of the state government (hence the season three storyline of Parks and Rec).
The problem is that the people of Michigan made it clear they didn't like this rule and their government told them to shove it anyway.
I don't think you have a recourse outside of voting out the awful though.
What's the countdown until they sell Belle Isle??
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Probably to a group of libertarians who want to start a semi-independent commonwealth.
It's kind of both problems to my mind -- I am only marginally interesting in learning about the interplay between the government of the state of Michigan as well as those of its respective municipalities, but glancing at Detroit's charter and Michigan's constitution, I see that the state largely ceded a lot of questions about how local government is supposed to work to the electors of a city or village's municipality. I thought that was interesting as a D.C. resident by way of Virginia -- in D.C. our home rule is subject to the whims of the Federal legislature on a lot of issues, and likewise in Virginia, municipalities are guaranteed certain forms of government, but the powers of that local government are defined very strictly by the municipal charter, and city or county charters are all as a matter of general law defined by the state government when they are drafted and voted upon by the state's General Assembly.
So when I opened Detroit's charter and saw that the first words about how this city plans to run its government were "We, the people of Detroit," I was rather surprised.
EDIT: One other thing I noticed though is that while Article VII of Michigan's constitution leaves drafting and adopting charters for local government up to the electors of a given municipality, they do take the time to state that no municipality shall ever have the authority to incur such debt as to exceed 10% of its assessed valuation, so if Snyder is going to try and take over a municipal government on any grounds, its debt is probably the strongest constitutional grounds for that argument (although I have no idea what Detroit's debt looks like, beyond "probably not very good at all.")
Detriot isn't that lucky. They'd end up with ED-209.
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Detroit, Clevland , East St Louis.. the USA certainly have a lot of fucked up cities.
Detroit is solidly Democrat, though, and has been for the last 50 years, right?
You don't, in fact, have this right, in virtually the entire planet. Self-determination applies at the national level.
It's majority black, so yes.
That thing is such a scam its amazing.
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