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POLL OVERVIEW:<br />
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The Michigan Legislature passed a new law to give financially distressed cities and school districts a choice of bankruptcy or a state-appointed emergency manager with power to cancel union contracts.<br />
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The bill will now go to Governor Snyder for his signature It will replace a similar 2011 measure voters repealed Nov. 6, 2014. <br />
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The new law will retain the state's power to declare financial emergencies, and give local governments the options of a consent agreement, entering into mediation with creditors, getting an emergency manager or filing for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection.<br />
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Supporters of the legislation feel it provides alternatives that weren</span><span style="font-size: larger;">'</span><span style="font-size: larger;">t there in the Emergency Manager law that was repealed by the voters in November. <br />
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The repeal of Public Act 4 in November left the state without an efficient mechanism to rescue cities and schools.<br />
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The new bill will reinstate broad powers for emergency managers, but local officials could still make decisions or develop alternate solutions that produce equal savings.<br />
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It also permits local officials to ask the governor to remove emergency managers within the first year, or dismiss them after a year with a two-thirds vote of a governing body such as a city council.<br />
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NEW POLL QUESTION:<br />
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Are you in favor of the new Emergency Manner law that the legislature passed this week?<br />
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Yes - the state needs ways to intervene when local jurisdictions refuse to resolve their fiscal problems<br />
No - the people spoke in November and they don&rsquo;t want state intervention<br />
Undecided<br />
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</span><a href="http://www.clinton-countygop.org/content/are-you-favor-new-emergency-manager-law-legislature-passed-week"><span style="font-size: larger;">http://www.clinton-countygop.org/content/are-you-favor-new-emergency-manager-law-legislature-passed-week</span></a><span style="font-size: larger;"><br />
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(To enter your comments click on &quot;Add new comment</span><span style="font-size: larger;">&quot;</span><span style="font-size: larger;"> after you vote.)<br />
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PREVIOUS POLL QUESTION:<br />
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Should the legislature pass legislation that would nullify Obamacare in Michigan based on the 10th Amendment?<br />
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Yes . . . . . . . . . 86%<br />
No . . . . . . . . . .12%<br />
Undecided . . . . . 2% <br />
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FIVE COMMENTS WERE MADE ON THIS POLL QUESTION<br />
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COMMENT #1:&nbsp; Why stop with ObamaCare.<br />
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Why stop with ObamaCare. What about the Department Education, social security, medicare, food stamps, etc. States have the right and the duty to it's citizens to nullify these laws. Just because the supreme court says its the law doesn't make it so. They are the Fedgov who do you think they'll side with..<br />
What are you going to do when the Supreme Court interprets the 2nd amendment incorrectly? Nullification and the threat of secession is the states only way to protect itself and citizens against the Fedgov.<br />
I've read the wise words of Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence. The South had every right to secede, I don't care what any liberal law school lawyer has to say.<br />
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COMMENT #2:&nbsp; Nullification of Obamacare<br />
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In the last 100 years we have slowly seen our constitutional rights being eroded by progressive politicians from both political parties. The last 4 years have been at a new breakneck speed. To think that we would ever say that we don&rsquo;t have a choice in this country is unconscionable. If we let the federal government continually chip away at every right that is defined in the constitution we have no one to blame but ourselves. They say we can be arrested without cause because of the NDAA! They say we are forced to purchase a product, Obamacare, that we don&rsquo;t want! They say that we can have our property taken away for the good of the country. They are trying to take away our guns. Where will it stop?<br />
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STATES HAVE RIGHTS AND SO DO WE! It&rsquo;s about time that the states do whatever they can to restore those rights by any means.<br />
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As Thomas Jefferson stated so eloquently,<br />
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&quot;God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ... And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.&quot;<br />
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COMMENT #3: This is the right thing to do.<br />
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We are in the United States of America. We are joined together by a common bond of separte states that agreed to unite. We didn't join together for a central govt to dictate to us. The Federal Govt went too far with healthcare, That is why the founders wrote the 10th Amendment, and if the federal govt doesn't understand it's role that is why we have the 2nd Amendment.<br />
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COMMENT #4: Anybody who thinks the State<br />
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Anybody who thinks the State Legislature can nullify the Supreme Court ruling and Congressional passage of Obamacare is crazy. Maybe they should re-read the Constitution and talk to a knowledgeable attorney about the 10th Amendment.<br />
I don't like Obamacare either and didn't support it, but the U.S. Congress passed it in 2010, the President signed it into law and the Supreme Court in 2012 upheld its key provisions. I don't like to pay federal taxes either, but the Congress passed it, President signed it into law and the Supreme Court has upheld the IRS code.<br />
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COMMENT #5:&nbsp; Nullification is lunacy and the path to secession<br />
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Really? We're going to follow South Carolina to nullify federal law? As I recall that did not end well for South Carolina and several other southern states in the past. A state cannot decide what federal laws are constitutional. We cannot exist as 50 separate countries with no common laws to bind them. Anyone who suggests nullification is taking a big step down the path to the Dark Side and the prospect of division and secession.<br />
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