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Breaking: Big-money left using fraud in attempt to gut Michigan CourtsBy Nick, Section News
Update [2008-6-11 12:55:47 by Nick]:I spoke this lunch hour with "Eric," the big boss for Progressive Campaigns, Inc. in the West Michigan area. According to the man recruiting the circulators they're paying $1.50 per every signature. And Progressive isn't a charity. They aren't charging their mysterious benefactor (cough) Stryker? (cough) wholesale prices. Figure conservatively the committee pays Progressive $2.00 for each signature.
They need 450,000 signatures minimum to survive challenges. That's $900,000 just to make the ballot... you can go ahead and double or triple that for the general election campaign. Now ask yourself... who has that kind of cash ($4 million?) lying around to burn on an attempt to radically liberalize the judicial landscape?
Petition Circulator: Excuse me, would you be willing to sign a petition to stop the Michigan legislature from giving themselves a pay raise next week?
Approachee: Sure! Surprised to learn the legislature was planning to raise their pay this week? So was I. And, apparently, so were the twenty or thirty folks who'd already signed this woman's petition. Shocked is more like it. Of course, that could have something to do with the fact that the legislature was not planning to and will not be voting themselves a pay raise this week, next week or any week in the imaginable future. The petitioner's line was simply a lie to grab signatures for the latest ballot initiative being pushed by the Michigan left and it addresses far more than legislative pay raises. If you can't beat them change the rules, right John? The new ballot initiative is being actively circulated statewide by "Progressive Campaigns, Inc." with big dollars behind it, though whose are anybody's guess (the smart money is on one Mr. John Stryker, the one man with a deep-seeded desire to liberalize the courts and the money to pull it off... with a big assist from the Michigan Democrats). At it's heart the eight page, twelve column (you read that right) petition is a poorly disguised attempt to blow the Michigan judiciary to pieces, set up massive judicial back logs, do through fiat what Democrats haven't done through judicial elections and pave the way for dozens of new long-term Granholm appointment opportunities. Of course, if there's one thing folks typically reach across party lines to embrace it's law and order. That's why the left is lying about the purpose of the petition, hoping those they stop won't bother to read all eight pages of fine print. Circulators have claimed the petition is to "fix Michigan's economy." They've claimed it's to "prevent an immediate legislative pay raise." They've claimed it's to prevent a new income tax hike. The Jackson Citizen Patriot and the Mount Pleasant Morning Sun have already published stories about circulator deceit. The frightening truth? Read on...
Under the proposed constitutional amendment:
Or as a friend of mine put it... "scary. Very, very scary." For Stryker's forces to prevail they need 380,126 valid signatures by July 7th. That's a tall mountain to climb, but with circulators everywhere from John Ball Park Zoo in Grand Rapids to downtown Lansing, the Courthouse in Detroit, the Red Wings Parade, Owosso, Mount Pleasant, Jackson area supermarkets and heaven knows where else it looks like the money and the manpower is there to make a go of it. Just a shame Michigan Democrats have resorted to lying to voters to get them to stick their names on twelve columns worth of frightening fine print.
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