Financial Manager Plan Equals Power Grab, Attack on Taxpayers

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, March 2, 2011 Contact: Leigh Fifelski 517-999-3646 Politicians could decree class sizes, debt on taxpayers in dozens of communities LANSING – Citizens and local officials today called on the state Senate to reject a plan to send so-called emergency financial managers into local communities, saying the proposal gives sweeping unilateral powers…

Guilty Until Proven Innocent

Remember a year ago when Rep. Kim Meltzer sponsored SB 1070? SB 1070 was a law aimed at undocumented immigrants and heavily drawn from Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer’s immigration law. Remember how you wrote Rep. Kim Meltzer emails and called and she eventually dropped the entire endeavor? Well, Rep. Dave Agema has picked up the…