Recalling Snyder: Ranting and Nothing More

Arrogantly claiming that the idea is being pushed 'by the People of Michigan', there has been approval of petition wording to recall Governor Rick Snyder. If the folks actually pushing for the removal of Mr. Snyder can get 807,000 signatures within a 90 day window, he will be subject to a recall election.

We'll give the left this much: for now, anyway, they are working with rather than against the democratic process. Still, it seems a typical reaction on the part of anyone whose ox is being gored. The Governor is being called a dictator in some circles for supposedly taking choice away from localities. It is a violation of their rights to have, such as in Benton Harbor, elected officials power removed.

If Benton Harbor were an entity unto itself, then it would indeed be suffering a grave political loss. Yet it is not; cities and counties are subsets of the State. They do have the same relationship with Lansing as the several states do with Washington. Further, as Benton Harbor gets State money and has squandered its own spending, then it should come as no surprise that Michigan would have to step in, on behalf of the taxpayers of the whole State, to see that their monies are well and properly spent.

If you don't like that, the what you need to do is convince people to change the Michigan Constitution so that localities hold a certain real independence. But as things are, Snyder is no more of a dictator than the President. Yet we see no movement on the right to remove him except during the regular election cycle.

What we actually have here is a protest from the folks who live and breathe government money: leftists such as the Washtenaw Coalition for Economic Justice who feel that only they know how Lansing should spend the taxpayers' dollars. That isn't concern for Benton Harbor or education or the poor. It is, however, a sanctimonious display of false injury, and unworthy of civil debate.