Citizens Group Files Petition To Recall Power-Hungry Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder

[kpete]

Source: Think Progress

Citizens Group Files Petition To Recall Power-Hungry Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder

Now, one group of Michigan citizens that is standing up to Snyder and his radical remaking of his state is filing a petition to recall the governor. The group, called Michigan Citizens United, says the group is opposed to the new financial manager law and opposes Snyder’s tax cuts for businesses and tax increases on working people:

A group called Michigan Citizens United filed a petition seeking the recall of Gov. Rick Snyder with the Washtenaw County clerk’s office this morning. <...>


Kramer said the group opposes the emergency manager law, among other policies of the governor. “We don’t like the tax decrease on corporations or the tax increase on Michigan families,” he said.

A Facebook page set up around the recall effort this week has already garnered 12,000 “Likes.” The group has set up a countdown clock to July 1 — the date that Snyder can legally face a recall election — on a website called FireRickSnyder.org.

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/2011/04/20/rick-snyder-recall/

[Vincardog]

1. They should line up the signatures and have a Big party July 1 and turn in TWICE the number require

d July 2.

[Duval]

2. May they succeed beyond all expectations! n/t

[Stuart G]

3. k & r

[BlueCaliDem]

4. I saw this monstrosity explained at length, on the Rachel Maddow Show last night

and I cannot believe, absolutely cannot believe, this is what the Michigan voters were voting for - to give the Republican Gov totalitarian powers a la Putin, and to usurp the will of the voting public, replacing elected officials with appointed ones.

This is unbelievable.

[Bozita]

5. Gotta love a group named "Michigan Citizens United"

[Canuckistanian]

13. The irony is delcious

But RWers won't get it.

[jwirr]

6. Go Michigan.

[MessiahRp]

7. I am definitely signing this.

Fuck this Monarchy shit. People elected a Governor, not a King.

[Maineman]

8. Go get him !

[Citizen Worker]

9. I do hope this group restores voting integrity prior to any recall election. Better return to paper

ballots and scrap the electronic voting machines and tabulators. Hand count the votes, dammit!

[Jim__]

10. I really hope they're successful.

The latest group of slugs elected by the teabaggers is truly turning this into a fascist state. This problem has to be resolved and recall elections are a peaceful way of resolving it.

[MedleyMisty]

15. What will you do when they cheat to win the recall elections?

Because they will.

Civil disobedience is also peaceful. Tunisia and Egypt took down dictators who had been in power for decades peacefully.

[MichiganVote]

11. K&R

[highplainsdem]

12. kick

[Zax2me]

14. Good luck up there guys!

You have the country behind you, full support!