Republican Governors Are Now The Front Line Generals In A Class War Against Working Families-- Rick Snyder
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I meant to put the above clip up on Tuesday night but Rachel's powerful analysis is so relevant-- and will be for so long-- that this message is fresh any time you hear it. It isn't really just about a small town in southwest Michigan you never heard of before. It's about the authoritarian takeover push by dangerously radical, basically interchangeable, Republican governors. She's talking about Rick Snyder above but she could just as well be talking about Rick Scott or Rick Walker. Or Rick Perry or John Kasich or even Paul LePage (who agreed with Maine Democrats that he deserves an F for his performance as governor so far).
Snyder has tried his best to leave the crazy theatrics for the rest of them but he may well have accomplished the most evil of any of them with a blatant attack on democracy itself. As Rachel points out, what happened to local self-rule and small government. It was, apparently, all a facade for outright, classic fascism. He's gone beyond just trying to eviscerate unions-- also one of Hitler's earliest initiatives (and for very much the same reason as Snyder's)-- he's now trying a kind of SS of corporate "financial professionals" to displace popularly-elected local governments and break union contracts. There's a lot of buyers' remorse among Michigan voters.
“I’m a proud Republican and I voted for these people,” said Ray Cornell, 74, a retired construction project manager from East Grand Rapids. “They never came out and said they were going to cut education and now they’re increasing my taxes."
...At the town hall meeting, Jack Prince, 62, of Grand Rapids, said it seems Snyder is blaming the little guy for the mistakes of past administrations.
“It’s like Robin Hood in reverse,” Prince said. “After 30 years of trickle up economics these people truly believe that some little public school librarian is to blame for this mess we’re in."
Hope on the horizon? Snyder's power grab is being greeted by recall petitions. Michigan Citizens United is on the way and their spokesperson put it very starkly: “We don’t like the tax decrease on corporations or the tax increase on Michigan families." Their petition seeking a recall process was filed yesterday
• We need 807,000 valid signatures to get the recall on the ballot this November. Due to about 20% of them standing a chance of being thrown out, we're aiming for at least 1.1 Million.
• The process for approval of the petition will take around 20 days. So we're aiming for May 8th as a starting date for collecting signatures.
Labels: class war, Michigan, Rachel Maddow, Republican governors, Rick Snyder
1 Comments:
It is incredible that the citizens of the United States elect these con men to office over and over and over again. Is there so much hatred in the country that so many would NEVER vote for "one of them" or "the other"????? Even when faced with take-overs like these? I am sure this is only the beginning, the conservatives smell blood and money and seem to know how to command their "troops", the religious, the bigots, the selfish, the egoists, the arrogant, and the greedy.
The liberals, progressives, unions, environmentalists had better get their coalition together to fight this and put in controls to keep on fighting FOREVER because the wealthy will never go away. It can not just be those that currently under attack and it can't just be the unions or the poor it has to be the "elite" liberals as well as the people who can only afford to buy a pair a pants at the Goodwill store, plus the environmentalists, animal lovers, veterans, firegighters, cops, teachers, gardeners, and even accountants ..... becuase next I could see a lot of accounting out-sourcing to China.
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