Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Michigan Power Grab - WSJ.com
Get elected. Stay elected.
Change the laws if you have to; and, cover up your intentions if you can.
How much more obvious can they be?...
Change the laws if you have to; and, cover up your intentions if you can.
How much more obvious can they be?...
The Wall Street Journal reports:
"But it turns out that these populist measures are included to disguise a deeply partisan agenda being pursued by Reform Michigan's Democratic backers. That agenda was laid bare last week when the Mackinac Center, a Michigan think tank, discovered a PowerPoint presentation of the proposal posted on a United Auto Workers regional Web site.
The 35-page presentation's blunt subtitle is "Changing the rules of politics in Michigan to help Democrats," and it begins by lamenting that "Democrats have not controlled the entire State Legislature in 25 years." To fix that, the strategy is to gain control of the redistricting process by which voting district lines are drawn every 10 years."
