Democrats ready to wage state Senate recall war in Wisconsin Washington Post ...After months of partisan turmoil solved not all that much in Washington, the political world will turn its attention to Wisconsin this week in search of some clarity...
Walker, Ryan absent in run up to recalls Politico ...Wisconsin's two most polarizing Republican figures are largely absent from the action in the run-up to the recalls...
Kasich looking to privatization to cut costs, raise cash Springfield News-Sun ...Shifting at least five prisons to private ownership and operation is just one of Gov. John Kasich’s privatization efforts designed to cut government costs and generate cash...
Florida Governor Scott gets to work on his own problems News-Press.com ...Gone are the brusque tea party talking points, replaced by folksy reminiscences about family, his Navy days and business realities learned selling doughnuts and cleaning phone booths...
Snyder recall efforts retooled Lansing State Journal ...Tom Bryant, communication director for the Committee to Recall Rick Snyder, said the group now is retooling the effort for a new Sept. 29 deadline to get it on a February ballot...
Second Recession in U.S. Could Be Worse Than First New York Times ...the economy is much weaker than it was at the outset of the last recession in December 2007, with most major measures of economic health — including jobs, incomes, output and industrial production — worse today than they were back then...
Showing posts with label rick snyder recall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rick snyder recall. Show all posts
Monday, August 8, 2011
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Freedom of speech in MI? Not so much. Not anymore.
This is a disturbing story from Michigan, where a new law allows the governor to appoint local dictators emergency financial managers. It used to be called taxation without representation. The law allows these "managers" to dismiss governments, ignore local laws, sell off taxpayer assets and abrogate union contracts.
(The emergency financial manager law, by the way, was drafted by ALEC. No shock there.)
This is about another form of repression. Denise Miller, a resident of Linden, Mich., was sitting at a picnic table in Linden Park last month collecting signatures for a petition to recall Gov. Rick Snyder. A ranger told her to leave so she left. She called the parks office, and park officials told her she needed a permit. So she applied for a permit, which she got weeks later.
Here's the crazy thing: They told her she had to stand in a 3-foot-by-3-foot square within the 135-acre park. According to the Detroit News,
(The emergency financial manager law, by the way, was drafted by ALEC. No shock there.)
This is about another form of repression. Denise Miller, a resident of Linden, Mich., was sitting at a picnic table in Linden Park last month collecting signatures for a petition to recall Gov. Rick Snyder. A ranger told her to leave so she left. She called the parks office, and park officials told her she needed a permit. So she applied for a permit, which she got weeks later.
Here's the crazy thing: They told her she had to stand in a 3-foot-by-3-foot square within the 135-acre park. According to the Detroit News,
Instead of a picnic table near the stairway leading to the beach, parks officials said she could only solicit signatures from a so-called "Freedom of Speech Area" located 20 feet from a remote corner of a parking lot, far from foot traffic, according to the lawsuit.
In case she couldn't find it, parks officials spray-painted an orange, 3-by-3 box in the grass.The ACLU sued on her behalf. Here's their statement.
“In a free society, citizens do not need the government’s permission to simply petition in a public park,” said Michael J. Steinberg, ACLU of Michigan legal director. “Barring petitioning anywhere in a 135-acre park except for a tiny, isolated spot is a particularly egregious violation of the First Amendment...”
In addition, the permit only allowed her to petition from July 1 to August 1, 2011 between the hours of 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. even though the park is open until 9 p.m. in the summer. Furthermore, she was instructed that her sign was to be placed within 10 feet of the orange square. Other signs in the park, however, are routinely placed more than 100 feet away from specific activities, including signs directing people to birthday parties and family reunions.
“This case is not just about our clients in Genesee County,” said Steinberg. “All throughout the state we’ve heard from recall volunteers who have hit roadblocks when attempting to exercise their fundamental right to petition in traditional public forums such as public parks and sidewalks. Not everyone will agree with this political campaign, but we can all agree that public officials should not be in the business of silencing citizens.”Scary.
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Today's Teamster News 07.10.11
With Walker, it's clear which groups he favors (opinion) Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel ...It took Walker less than a week to ... hand out $140 million in tax breaks to large corporations and wealthy executives (while) ... 10,000 unemployed workers in Wisconsin ran out of unemployment insurance benefits ...
State’s labor advisor finds no indefensible union benefits Plunderbund ...the governor’s office was looking for specific examples where collective bargaining resulted in over paid civil servants, higher-quality employees being fired for lack of seniority or layoffs resulting from collectively bargained contracts in which public unions refused to make concessions in the face of a budget crunch...
Scores turn out to sign Snyder recall petitions Monroe News ...hundreds... signed a petition to recall the governor Saturday during a six-hour event at Loranger Square. ... Events like the one in Monroe took place all around the state...
Rick Scott is no leader (LTE) Herald-Tribune ...I find it highly embarrassing to have a governor who does not have the common sense to realize that he is not wanted by the voters in his state...
Citizen’s veto movement hopes to restore same-day voter registration Bangor Daily News ...Maine Secretary of State Charles Summers has approved the wording for a People’s Veto referendum question aimed at restoring the status quo when it comes to voter registration...
Unexpected special election win has NH Republicans wondering Nashua Telegraph ...The New Hampshire House special election on Tuesday was another embarrassing defeat for establishment Republicans...
State’s labor advisor finds no indefensible union benefits Plunderbund ...the governor’s office was looking for specific examples where collective bargaining resulted in over paid civil servants, higher-quality employees being fired for lack of seniority or layoffs resulting from collectively bargained contracts in which public unions refused to make concessions in the face of a budget crunch...
Scores turn out to sign Snyder recall petitions Monroe News ...hundreds... signed a petition to recall the governor Saturday during a six-hour event at Loranger Square. ... Events like the one in Monroe took place all around the state...
Rick Scott is no leader (LTE) Herald-Tribune ...I find it highly embarrassing to have a governor who does not have the common sense to realize that he is not wanted by the voters in his state...
Citizen’s veto movement hopes to restore same-day voter registration Bangor Daily News ...Maine Secretary of State Charles Summers has approved the wording for a People’s Veto referendum question aimed at restoring the status quo when it comes to voter registration...
Unexpected special election win has NH Republicans wondering Nashua Telegraph ...The New Hampshire House special election on Tuesday was another embarrassing defeat for establishment Republicans...
Monday, May 2, 2011
Today's Teamster News 05.02.11
Remembering the Struggles of Labor on May Day Buzzflash ...The first May Day demonstrations, in 1886, won the most important of the rights ever won by working people the right demanded above all others by the labor activists of a century ago...
Unions reel as budget crisis, ebbing clout collide Boston Globe ...Though still considered among the strongest in the country, union clout in Massachusetts has been waning for years, sapped by declining membership, a well-financed group of business-backed think tanks, weaker government finances, and Beacon Hill Democrats trying to cast themselves as reformers by showing they are not beholden to traditional interests...
Snyder recall bid clears a hurdle, but next one 'tough' The Detroit News ..."It's going to be pretty tough," Michigan Citizens United spokesman Tim Kramer (a Teamster) said of his group's bid to collect 1.1 million signatures of registered voters to have about 807,000 that withstand scrutiny...
Hundreds Protest Snyder's Visit to Ann Arbor Dexter Patch ...Chants of “Recall Rick!” and “It’s not fair!” filled the air Saturday as a broad coalition of students, parents, families and unions gathered at Pioneer High School in Ann Arbor...
Scott’s corporate tax cut dead, state Senate leader declares Miami Herald ...
Cutting spending is the state’s first priority, not cutting the corporate tax rate, the Senate’s Republican president said as the Legislature grapples with closing a $4 billion budget gap...
Dems rally public workers to push Brown's agenda San Francisco Chronicle ...While Democrats dominate California's political landscape and hold all its major offices, both political leaders and the labor unions that put them in power are sounding the alarm about anti-union initiatives that are creeping into the state and efforts to "demonize" union workers as the source of the California's knee-buckling economic problems...
Unions reel as budget crisis, ebbing clout collide Boston Globe ...Though still considered among the strongest in the country, union clout in Massachusetts has been waning for years, sapped by declining membership, a well-financed group of business-backed think tanks, weaker government finances, and Beacon Hill Democrats trying to cast themselves as reformers by showing they are not beholden to traditional interests...
Snyder recall bid clears a hurdle, but next one 'tough' The Detroit News ..."It's going to be pretty tough," Michigan Citizens United spokesman Tim Kramer (a Teamster) said of his group's bid to collect 1.1 million signatures of registered voters to have about 807,000 that withstand scrutiny...
Hundreds Protest Snyder's Visit to Ann Arbor Dexter Patch ...Chants of “Recall Rick!” and “It’s not fair!” filled the air Saturday as a broad coalition of students, parents, families and unions gathered at Pioneer High School in Ann Arbor...
Scott’s corporate tax cut dead, state Senate leader declares Miami Herald ...
Cutting spending is the state’s first priority, not cutting the corporate tax rate, the Senate’s Republican president said as the Legislature grapples with closing a $4 billion budget gap...
Dems rally public workers to push Brown's agenda San Francisco Chronicle ...While Democrats dominate California's political landscape and hold all its major offices, both political leaders and the labor unions that put them in power are sounding the alarm about anti-union initiatives that are creeping into the state and efforts to "demonize" union workers as the source of the California's knee-buckling economic problems...
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Today's Teamster News 05.01.11
Pink slips are United Nation's gift to staffers New York Daily News ...Sunday is International Workers' Day - also known as May Day - and people around the world are rallying to protest attacks on workers' and immigrants' rights...
Panel OKs a petition to recall Gov. Rick Snyder Detroit Free Press ...clearing the way for the group Michigan Citizens United to begin collecting signatures. The group must get signatures from 807,000 registered voters within a 90-day period to force a recall election...
Walker, Ryan and 'shock and awe' politics Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ...Scott Walker and Paul Ryan have upended state and national politics this year, offering deeply controversial ideas that drew little discussion in the last campaign but threaten to reshape the next one...
New contract ends Dichello, Teamsters labor dispute WTNH.com ...The agreement between Dichello Distributors, Inc. of Orange and Teamsters Local 443 ends a strike/lockout that began in March...
Doomed workers kept in the dark Kennebec Journal ...About 70 workers, mostly members of the Teamsters Union Local 340, listened as they were told the latest information about the company's status and instructed how to apply for unemployment benefits...
SB5 foes look for big turnout Chillicothe Gazette ...Organizers hope Ross County's second protest against Senate Bill 5 on Sunday will be bigger than their last one...
No ordinary year in the Statehouse South Bend Tribune ...legislation will bar state workers from collective bargaining, allow the governor to authorize new toll roads, lower the corporate income tax rate from 8.5 percent to 6.5 percent over four years, and balance the state's unemployment insurance fund by raising premiums and cutting benefits...
LePage vetting process under scrutiny Kennebec Journal ...The resignations of three officials in two weeks is raising questions about LePage's management abilities...
Rick Scott to leadership: Get my tax cuts done Florida Times-Union ...Scott wants nearly $2 billion in tax and fee cuts this year. Legislative leaders have said that will be a tough pull considering the state is dealing with a $3.8 billion budget gap...
Panel OKs a petition to recall Gov. Rick Snyder Detroit Free Press ...clearing the way for the group Michigan Citizens United to begin collecting signatures. The group must get signatures from 807,000 registered voters within a 90-day period to force a recall election...
Walker, Ryan and 'shock and awe' politics Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ...Scott Walker and Paul Ryan have upended state and national politics this year, offering deeply controversial ideas that drew little discussion in the last campaign but threaten to reshape the next one...
New contract ends Dichello, Teamsters labor dispute WTNH.com ...The agreement between Dichello Distributors, Inc. of Orange and Teamsters Local 443 ends a strike/lockout that began in March...
Doomed workers kept in the dark Kennebec Journal ...About 70 workers, mostly members of the Teamsters Union Local 340, listened as they were told the latest information about the company's status and instructed how to apply for unemployment benefits...
SB5 foes look for big turnout Chillicothe Gazette ...Organizers hope Ross County's second protest against Senate Bill 5 on Sunday will be bigger than their last one...
No ordinary year in the Statehouse South Bend Tribune ...legislation will bar state workers from collective bargaining, allow the governor to authorize new toll roads, lower the corporate income tax rate from 8.5 percent to 6.5 percent over four years, and balance the state's unemployment insurance fund by raising premiums and cutting benefits...
LePage vetting process under scrutiny Kennebec Journal ...The resignations of three officials in two weeks is raising questions about LePage's management abilities...
Rick Scott to leadership: Get my tax cuts done Florida Times-Union ...Scott wants nearly $2 billion in tax and fee cuts this year. Legislative leaders have said that will be a tough pull considering the state is dealing with a $3.8 billion budget gap...
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