Will Right-to-Work Law Lead to Recall of Gov. Snyder?
A political expert said Michigan could be “ground zero for a recall vote” against Snyder in 2013.
Could the sudden passage of the highly controversial right-to-work legislation lead to Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder's name appearing on a statewide ballot for something other than his re-election campaign?
One political expert thinks it's possible.
Joshua Spivak, a senior fellow at Wagner College’s Hugh L. Carey Institute for Government Reform, told Politico that Michigan could be “ground zero for a recall vote” against Snyder in 2013.
“There doesn’t seem to be a specific goal of going after state legislatures or state governors in any significant way, though that might change in Michigan because of right-to-work (legislation),” Spivak said in the Politico story.
Local recall elections, such as the one voters recently approved against Troy Mayor Janice Daniels, are common over hot-button topics. However, statewide recalls are far and few between.
In 2012, the only statewide recall was in Wisconsin against Gov. Scott Walker, his lieutenant governor and four state senators.
The effort was for naught, however, as the recall effort was unsuccessful.
Similar to the hubbub over Michigan's right-to-work legislation, Walker's recall was backed largely by labor groups after Walker stripped unions of collective bargaining rights.
What do you think? Will there be an effort to recall Snyder? If so, would you vote in favor of it? Tell us in the comments below.
Easydude
3:50 pm on Friday, December 28, 2012
I have always said, "He looks like a little Hitler." In fact, Hitler went after state and city employees many being Jewish." Synder and his followers have come with new laws dealing with recalls, tax laws that benefit businesses and taken away the right's of voters to change laws. Much of the laws change come from a group called, ALEC.
No sooner had the GOP secured total control of Michigan in 2010, holding majorities in both houses and winning the governorship, than the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a right-wing ultra-conservative “bill mill” and THE source of money and corruption in politics today, lept into action. ALEC wasted no time in sending many of their most onerous “model legislation” bills to Michigan. These included the Emergency Manager law, privatization of public schools, expansion of charter schools, HB 5221 (Voter ID Act), which required voters to provide proof of citizenship when registering to vote, and HB 4305 with language similar to ALEC’s model “Immigration Law Enforcement Act.”