Michigan Votes Forum

[quote user="Votes Admin"]Introduced in the House on January 17, 2012 Click here to view bill details. [/quote] HB 5245 introduced by Rep. Schmidt presumes the Cobo Convention Facility Authority was constitutionally created in compliance with the 1978 Headlee Tax Limitation Amendment in our...

Since when is it required to disclose when you are exercising your constitutional right. Any income received will be reported to the tax collector.

I guess Sen. Cherry just doesn't get it yet. If this makes it through comittee and is passed she should be the first to run a test on using the new rules.

Obviously members of the senate are exempt from jury duty, it cost the average taxpayer money out of pocket from the loss of wages to sit on a jury duty, I might ad most are willing to do as a citizen and tax payer. Its obvious they are not paying out fair amounts when we have built up such an amount...

I should also note that it is an objective fact that the MEA is involved in these recall efforts. Note this article from a newspaper in Escanaba, which has an MEA spokesperson fielding questions for a committee that is organizing a recall effort.

Good thought on the basis of the recall, freespeaker. Your characterization is indeed how it appears in the printed version of the story -- and now in the corrected version of this thread. In both cases it now says "launch recalls against." In my haste to post this discussion thread, I misquoted...

The March/April 2009 Michigan Capitol Confidential carries a story about a program by the Greater Detroit Democratic Socialists of America to help candidates who line up with their values win closely contested races for the Michigan Legislature. Using organized door-to-door canvassing, fundraisers and...

The March/April 2009 Michigan Capitol Confidential has a story about the Michigan Education Association launching recalls against local school board members who seek to save money by hiring private contractors to do non-instructional work like prepare meals, drive buses and clean the schools. What do...

By Ken Braun Michigan Capitol Confidential , a free publication and public service provided by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, exists because the Center decided that a new tool was needed to compare what politicians say with how they vote. The need for such exposure was recently confirmed in an...

The Jan/Feb 2009 issue of Michigan Capitol Confidential carries a story about Michigan winning a "State of the Year" award from Business Facilities magazine because the Michigan Economic Development corporation claimed that its targeted tax credits were responsible for luring $14 billion in...