 ccrp poll wind turbines and right to farm   new poll overview house bill 5886 would let wind turbines avoid zoning and building permits wind turbines could be erected without regard to some local laws under recently introduced under house bill 5886 if passed it would amend michigan rsquo s right to farm act to include wind production if enacted it would allow wind turbines to be constructed on agricultural land with no zoning or building permits of any kind enacted in 1981 the right to farm act was meant to protect farmers from nuisance lawsuits under the act farmers who follow the generally accepted agricultural and management practices gaamp are protected from lawsuits over noise dust odors and so on that result from normal farm operations house bill 5886 would add wind energy production in with farming activities such as harvesting and storage of farm products the measure was introduced on oct 2 by rep jeff irwin dann arbor and rep jon switalski dwarren and assigned to the house energy and technology committee new poll question should the michigan legislature pass a bill to allow wind turbines on farms without zoning and building permits yes no undecided to vote in this poll click on this link http wwwclintoncountygopcom content shouldmichiganlegislaturepassbillallowwindturbines  to enter your comments click on add new comment after you vote previous poll question should the michigan house adopt the hastert rule regarding votes on legislation by the republican caucus yes 51 no 49 undecided 0 four comments were made on this poll comment 1 accountable responsible without close examination of how the masses of bills move through the legislative process and scrutinizing those bills we end up with language as one example the pontiac silver dome funding which was quietly snuck through in an ag budget years ago no more poker and back room deals with public funds enough is enough we are suppose to be different then the liberal dems and republicans who are always wanting to redistribute citizens wealth the entire political process has shifted to the left by today s standards even john kennedy could not be elected in this spoiled brat culture because he would be considered to conservative wake up michigan to many youngsters in office who have no clue no life experience but have lots of pr comment 2 the hastert rule we have a governor that isn t a conservative and picks off weak republicans who he can make a deal with for who knows what future promise for not being a politician it hasn t taken him long to learn how to play the game until the republican party has a true closed primary to pick their candidates for their statewide offices we will continue to see moderate progressive rinos representing the party people will call it bipartisan when the governor gets the votes he needs with both republicans and democrats voting for the same legislation the problem is that its all the democrats that he has voting for his progressive agenda and the republicans he has bribed i applaud the three new potential republican true conservatives that are pressing the issue of the hastert rule and making it part of the caucus rules for the passage of legislation only when conservative republicans unite and demand that republicans actually act like republicans will we be able to stop snyder s progressive agenda i pose the question wouldn rsquo t it be better to vote for mark schauer for governor than rick snyder because schauer won t be able to pick off the benedict arnolds s that are willing to sell their votes for their personal gain because of the pressure they would get from their own caucus it rsquo s time for republicans to stand together and actually vote for the ideals they profess to believe in united we stand decided we fall yes for the hastert rule comment 3 hastert rule ny politicians do not want a strong party as a strong and concientous party can exact a certain amouint of discipline including some defference to party principles and platforms governing contrary to campaign promoses and party principles muddies the message and turns off voters comment 4 hastert rule i think that the hastert rule would be a good idea i d be more impressed with the three nonincumbents if they would be working with existing legislators about this and not just talking this up on fb now that would show not only that they know what should happen but what it takes to make something happen   all emails addresses  