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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Local Issues and Governments</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/20.aspx</link><description /><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008 (Debug Build: 30417.1769)</generator><item><title>Re: 2009 Senate Bill 731 (Authorize unionization of home personal assistance providers )</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/281534.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 19:26:33 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:281534</guid><dc:creator>jaybaker</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/281534.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=20&amp;PostID=281534</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;I do not know why this bill was passed when there was unemployment and recession problem already there in 2009. It is not the necessary use of the taxpayers money.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Regards&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title="Jay Baker" href="http://Blogskinny.com"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Jay Baker&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: 2009 Senate Bill 731 (Authorize unionization of home personal assistance providers )</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/281269.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 12:00:42 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:281269</guid><dc:creator>Kutty</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/281269.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=20&amp;PostID=281269</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;I must admit I don&amp;#39;t understand the purpose of this bill. Why would a union need to be &amp;quot;authorized&amp;quot; ? If these home personal assistance providers want to organize and join a union, they have a right to. Anyone out there able to explain this bill, and it&amp;#39;s implications? &lt;a href="http://incomeinstrumentss.com"&gt;income instruments review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: 2009 Senate Bill 731 (Authorize unionization of home personal assistance providers )</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/281256.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:31:14 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:281256</guid><dc:creator>Kutty</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/281256.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=20&amp;PostID=281256</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;Introduced in the Senate on December 13, 2001, to revise and update the registration and licensure provisions in the state pesticide regulation law, increase license fees, provide new and updated definitions, and increased felony penalties for certain violations.&lt;a href="http://www.area51backlinks.com/buy-backlinks"&gt;buy backlinks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: 2009 Senate Bill 731 (Authorize unionization of home personal assistance providers )</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/281107.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 08:55:25 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:281107</guid><dc:creator>gowri</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/281107.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=20&amp;PostID=281107</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;Has this bill gone into effect already? I am going to start massage therapy school April 6th, 2009. I was told that the bill goes into effect on September 1st, 2009. Is this accurate and true? Please advise at your earliest convenience.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Any politician who supports this should be dragged out into the light of day so their constituents can see who they are really voting for!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: 2009 Senate Bill 731 (Authorize unionization of home personal assistance providers )</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/278303.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 21:15:33 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:278303</guid><dc:creator>My Pursuit</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/278303.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=20&amp;PostID=278303</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;Oh&amp;nbsp;I think I got it! We are not smart enough to decide these &amp;quot;complicated issues&amp;quot; on our own, so we just need to let the government handle it for us! Whew, now I can relax... &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: 2009 Senate Bill 731 (Authorize unionization of home personal assistance providers )</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/278302.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 21:04:06 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:278302</guid><dc:creator>My Pursuit</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/278302.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=20&amp;PostID=278302</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;Whats with the popularity of legislation everywhere that &amp;quot;authorizes&amp;quot; people to do something they already have the ability to do on thier own. If workers have grievances they are unable to resolve with their employer, do they really require big brother to tell them they have the right to assemble or form a union? NO!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I will certainly be watching how my rep(s) vote on this, I hope many others are as well...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: 2009 Senate Bill 731 (Authorize unionization of home personal assistance providers )</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/278300.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 12:29:53 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:278300</guid><dc:creator>Mike Hignite</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/278300.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=20&amp;PostID=278300</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;Senator Valde Garcia - &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Why would you support an unnecessary, ineffective, unionizing, bill resulting in more growth of state interference in private sector economics?&amp;nbsp; Your S-3 &amp;quot;Sense of legislature&amp;quot; is meaningless.&amp;nbsp; This bill should have been tabled before it even reached this committee.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I expect you to withdraw your co-sponsoring of this bill, and to vote against it should it make it to the floor.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: 2009 Senate Bill 731 (Authorize unionization of home personal assistance providers )</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/278299.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 10:12:59 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:278299</guid><dc:creator>gypsy</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/278299.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=20&amp;PostID=278299</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;Good news for these home personal assistance providers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: 2009 Senate Bill 731 (Authorize unionization of home personal assistance providers )</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/278298.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:46:22 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:278298</guid><dc:creator>tdupont</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/278298.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=20&amp;PostID=278298</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;Sen. Jansen you promised this would not come to the floor for a vote. You said Sen Jason Allen had tricked you with this bill.&amp;nbsp; That it was a different bill when you co-signed.&amp;nbsp; When you were at our tea party I asked if you would withdrawal your name.&amp;nbsp; You said you didn&amp;#39;t have to because it would not get this far.&amp;nbsp; Was that all a lie?&amp;nbsp; Were you attempting to deceive your constituents?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: 2009 Senate Bill 731 (Authorize unionization of home personal assistance providers )</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/278297.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:23:57 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:278297</guid><dc:creator>StopThe Crap</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/278297.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=20&amp;PostID=278297</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;This bill is as creepy as Jason Allen&amp;#39;s picture on his web site. Why can&amp;#39;t you guys do something useful? None of you idiots have any common sense or knowledge of what you are doing. You are not doing what the people want, but what you yourself wants.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please, quit being so narcissistic.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: 2009 Senate Bill 731 (Authorize unionization of home personal assistance providers )</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/278296.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:17:14 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:278296</guid><dc:creator>Poppy</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/278296.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=20&amp;PostID=278296</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;You people in the government have absolutely no sense whatsoever.&amp;nbsp; I suggest every one of you that voted for this, should be thrown out immediately, dont wait for the next election, do it now.&amp;nbsp; Lansing along with Washington is out of control.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: 2009 Senate Bill 731 (Authorize unionization of home personal assistance providers )</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/278295.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 00:29:43 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:278295</guid><dc:creator>saraknack</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/278295.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=20&amp;PostID=278295</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;NO FORCED UNIONIZATION! Vote NO on this unconstitutional bill.&amp;nbsp; What right does Lansing have to force a union on unsuspecting self-employed people.&amp;nbsp; Stay OUT.&amp;nbsp; Small business does not need any more unwanted regulations from the state.&amp;nbsp; NO UNION.&amp;nbsp; Vote No.&amp;nbsp; Lansing stay out.&amp;nbsp; It is so difficult to believe that people we voted for and trusted to do right by the people and for the people have come to this end.&amp;nbsp; Stop the government take-over of our lives.&amp;nbsp; Lansing just as Washington has forgetten thier oath and forgotten who they work for.&amp;nbsp; You do not work for Unions and you do not work for big business.&amp;nbsp; You work for the PEOPLE.&amp;nbsp; It is time to remember.&amp;nbsp; I will remember in NOVEMBER!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>