Posted on 12/07/2012 2:39:00 PM PST by jazusamo
LANSING, Mich. — A top Michigan Democrat is looking to President Obama to deliver retribution to Republicans after the GOP-dominated state legislature approved a package of bills that could make this stronghold of union power the nation’s 24th right-to-work state as early as next week.
Senate Democratic Leader Gretchen Whitmer, who on Thursday called the votes to approve the right-to-work measure “petty and vindictive politics,” sparked more backlash Friday when she said she wants the president, who is set to visit Detroit on a previously scheduled political trip on Monday, to push back on Republican Gov. Rick Snyder by holding back federal money for a new international bridge project to Canada and a badly needed mass-transit program in ailing Detroit.
“We are hoping that when President Obama comes to Michigan next week, that this is going to be on his radar screen, that he’s going to say Michigan doesn’t care about their middle class, [so] why should we be bending over backwards to make sure that this governor is able to deliver on his promise,” said Mrs. Whitmer in an interview with local radio station WWJ.
Her remarks, amid calls from other Democrats and union leaders to use all legal means necessary to stop the bills from becoming law, drew a stern rebuke from WJR host Frank Beckmann, in Detroit, who wondered on his program Friday if Mrs. Whitmer, considered a possible gubernatorial candidate in 2014, might want to reconsider her words.
“This should immediately disqualify her for any consideration to run for governor,” Mr. Beckmann said. “Taking the interests of the entire state of Michigan, the entire region of Detroit, holding them hostage because you object to legislation that has passed in 23 other states and has caused great economic growth?… That’s outrageous.”
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Pound ‘em Barry! They made your union knuckledraggers cry. Oops! It was the tear gas that made them cry.
I haven’t figured out what’s going on here but there’s more than meets the eye. I noticed immediately after the election there was some prodding for the democrats to fight among themselves.
The day after the election Obama’s de facto DREAM act kids protested the fact that they can’t get diver’s licenses. Our secretary of state told them to take it up with Obama because he put them in their limbo and it wasn’t her job to fix it.
Yea Barry, hurt ‘em real bad. Withhold federal funds for a couple weeks.
I can finally say, CC, “Welcome to Arizona.”
Since only lefties would want to work on Moore's notorious movies anyway, that shouldn't be too much of a problem!
Those are literally fighting words.
I don’t know whether it was Moore’s last movie or not, but he paid people minimum wage and didn’t pay health benefits. People worked part-time.
“One day during production on the first season of the show, Moore called two of his writers into his office. It was, for both of them, their first job in television, and they had been hired with the title of associate producer. They were not members of the Writers’ Guild, the powerful union for writers in movies and TV, and thus were not receiving health benefits, and would not qualify later for a percentage of video and rerun sales. “Michael said, ‘I’m getting a lot of heat from the union to call you guys writers and pay you under the union rules,’ ” Eric Zicklin, one of the associate producers, says. “ ‘I don’t have the budget for that. But if they keep coming down on me that’ll mean I’ll only be able to afford one of you and the other one’s gotta go.’ ”
Soon more employees who supported Mr. Moore in his political crusade became disillusioned with their former boss...”
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Maybe the state should hold up tax payments to the federal government?
Is marijuana legal there too?
I don’t know if marijuana is legal there but it sounds like Whitmer is smoking lots of it.
If Michigan is smart, it will be happy for obama to pull his fiat out of the state. The less a state relies on federal fiat, the better.
I was wondering about the voters. The woman certainly has a talent for shocking.
From what I recall, Teddy Kennedy secretly conspired with the KGB to trip up President Reagan in 1983. But he never was so, er, "bold" to publicly call upon the United Nations or GATT to punish the United States.
Freaking amazing - calling a lawful event "petty and vindictive politics" then asking the Chicago thug to act in an illegal, petty, and vindictive way in retaliation for a State exercising its rights.
They sure are, but they might be wise, which they are not, to temper their hubris.
People can be pushed too far and fate has a way of slamming the arrogant.
“If conservatives are serious about getting power back they will say “go ahead and pull the money”. They will then work to be self-sufficient since freedom has always required that.”
I agree with you 100%.
Another dimension of the terrible legacy of Richard M. Nixon is the power the federal government holds over state and local governments as the arbitrary dispenser of federal tax dollars for local programs. Nixon was a big proponent of “revenue sharing” with state and local government. Instead of reducing federal taxes and spending, Nixon preferred building a federal infrastructure to distribute taxes collected by the central government to local government. Obviously decisions as to how to allocate the funds would be made in Washington, and those political decisions gave power to the president and his staffers making the allocation decisions. Nixon falsely asserted he was giving power back to the states and localities.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=3636
It’s all about R-E-V-E-N-G-E with these turds.
Oh, no you can’t scare me
I’ll stick it to the Union
I’ll stick it to the Union
I’ll stick it to the Union
Oh, no you can’t scare me
I’ll stick it to the Union
I’ll stick it to the Union
Until it dies.
Michael Moore: Yesterday’s solutions causing tomorrow’s problems.
Yep, she sounds like a pretty dim bulb, much like some Dems in the US House.
There have been lawsuits against that gasbag POS by his crew, as he oftenforgets to pay them. One day, God willing, he will, due to his adiposity and hot gas, simply explode..
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