Michigan governor seeks to dodge deposition in Detroit bankruptcy case

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Michigan governor seeks to dodge deposition in Detroit bankruptcy case

By Joseph Lichterman and Bernie Woodall
DETROIT | Fri Aug 30, 2013 7:15pm EDT

(Reuters) - Michigan Governor Rick Snyder and other state officials are seeking to avoid being questioned by Detroit worker and retiree unions in the city's bankruptcy case, according to a motion filed on Friday.

Attorneys for the state, in a motion to quash depositions of Snyder, Michigan Treasurer Andy Dillon and others, said they would not be able to offer testimony relevant to the issue of whether Detroit is eligible to enter Chapter 9 protection.

The depositions, if they occur, would happen ahead of the late October start to hearings before U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes on the eligibility issue.

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Ed McNeil of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 25 in Detroit, called Snyder's attempt to dodge being questioned "a cowardly attempt to hide behind a malicious legal maneuver."

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/30/us-usa-detroit-bankruptcy-idUSBRE97Q0K820130830

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1. Don't want to speak under oath, Mr. Snyder?

Fuck him. Compel him to do so!

[Skittles]

2. cowards

[mstinamotorcity2]

3. what bothers me most,

is that The Citizens of Michigan voted a resounding NO to emergency financial Managers. He and the Republican Legislators stuck the provision for Emergency financial Managers in a Budget and Spending Bill so it wouldn't be revoked. And there is really no outrage to having the Will of The People to be represented with an Elected body that voices that of its Citizens. Why would someone vote in an election that's a farce. Mayor who cannot really serve his community. An Emergency financial Manager who got here under suspect circumstances. the first thing out of his mouth was he was an Obama supporter. WTF. And like the rest of the emergency Financial Managers he is out to strip our city of any meaningful Value with the exception of its Citizens. And even they may be expendable. They tell us that this has been sixty years in the making. Funny most of those folks are not here in the city. they live all over the world. Or maybe dead. And since when have we had a vote where 100 % of the vote went to one candidate? We don't all vote the same or think the same. I rise and go to work early in the morning. And I see people up doing the same thing I have done all my life , Work. they may not have the best paying jobs in the world but Detroiters are some of the hardest working people I know. Now Governor Snyder has a new problem. his Lt. governor is being Primaried by the Tea Party. They are really turning inwards on each other. I wonder what's next???

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4. The Michigan governor is a POS