| The Committee to recall Rick Snyder is happy to
announce a state-wide petition signing event to take
place in each county within the state of Michigan on
July 9th 2011.
The signing event will take place at most County
Courthouses. Let it be noted though, some County
Courthouses have low traffic during weekends and
alternate locations will be available. Also some
counties will combine their efforts for maximum
efficacy. For detailed information on your county's
signing event location, please go to
www.firericksnyder.org.
Members of The Committee to recall Rick Snyder, a
Political Action Committee formed out of concern for
Governor Snyder’s dictatorial approach to addressing
budget woes in Michigan, submitted a petition for the
recall of Governor Rick Snyder to Lawrence Kestenbaum,
the Washtenaw County Clerk/Register on Patriots’ Day,
Monday, April 18, 2011. The petition was reviewed by the
Washtenaw County Election Commission for clarity of the
language and was approved by a 2-1 vote at the clarity
hearing the morning of April 29, 2011. The Comitte has
been gathering signatures from across the state since
May 21. The 1.1 million signatures the group plans to
gather will be submitted to the Michigan Department of
State on or before the August 5, 2011 deadline to appear
on the November ballot. The Committee to recall Rick
Snyder is a grassroots effort of concerned citizens from
across the Upper and Lower Peninsulas of Michigan. CRRS
members believe that Snyder’s early performance proves
he is not qualified to lead Michigan. Some of the
offending actions include:
* The Emergency Financial Manager Bill (officially
known as the Local Government And School District Fiscal
Accountability Act, Act 4 of 2011), which was signed
into law by Governor Snyder on March 16, 2011. New
provisions give the governor sweeping and unilateral
authority to declare a “financial emergency” in towns or
school districts and appoint an emergency financial
manager (EFM). The EFM is given broad new powers to
nullify contracts; dismiss elected and appointed
officials, committees, boards, and authorities;
eliminate or redistrict entire cities or schools; take
and sell public and private land; hire private security
forces; and eliminate services.
* The Proposed 2011-12 budget which gives a $1.8 billion
dollar tax break to corporations and raises taxes by up
$1.7 billion on retired people and working poor, without
addressing the budget deficit. It takes money from the
K-12 educational fund and reduces per-pupil funding
levels to local districts; reduces funding to
universities and colleges. It reduces essential services
for the sick, the poor, and the elderly, and slashes
funding for local governments.
* The cuts to local governments and schools, in turn,
threaten the financial solvency of those entities,
making more of them targets for hostile takeover by the
state.
* While Governor Snyder talks about shared sacrifice, it
appears the sacrifice is shared by the lower 98% of
income-earning citizens of Michigan, while the upper 2%
and corporations reap new benefits.
Recall information is available at
www.firericksnyder.org or on Facebook Recall Governor
Rick Snyder. It is also available on twitter at http://www.twitter.com/firericksnyder.
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