Well…I really do need to thank the people behind the ballot initiative that took plotting of the voting districts out of the hands of politicians so the repubs couldn’t gerrymander and cheat to keep control of the government here in Michigan…now, if I’m honest, the dems did it, too but not anywhere to the extent of the repubs…and the follow on for that was, with fair districts, the dems took control of all parts of Michigan government for the first time in 40 years…and the result of that is we have a government that works for the people again…not for the crazy right wing assholes that were running it before…you know the ones, who would have made 50+% of the people in Michigan second class citizens by taking away the control of their bodies…and do you know why there haven’t been any anti trans legislation here? Because the dems control the government…in fact, they have expanded discrimination protection to all LGBTQ people in this state…and have passed sensible gun control legislation that mandates background checks for all gun sales…it is just refreshing that we now have a government that is not run by a small group of right wing assholes….let’s keep it up, Michigan…
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Elections matter here in Michigan…
Well…this is what happens when you put dems in control of the entire state of Michigan for the first time in decades…just yesterday the House voted to expand the Elliot-Larsen Civil Rights Act to cover sexual orientation and gender identity…also Wednesday, the house labor committee advanced bills to repeal the “right to work” that the repubs passed to attack unions and working people in this state…and Tuesday, Governor Whitmer signed a bill that extended the Earned Income Tax Credit which will put more money in the hands of the working poor…another program that the repubs slashed when they controlled the state…and now the dems are moving onto the popular gun control measures like background checks, red flag laws, and a safe storage law that ensures that people will have to keep their guns locked up when not in use. None of this would have happened if the repubs conrolled any part of the government here…and it all goes back the voters taking the drawing of districts out of the hands of politicians so the repubs couldn’t gerrymander the state and cheat in elections…there is real progress going on here in Michigan…and we all have the dems to thank for it….
Good for Michigan….
Well…just got back from getting two teeth pulled and thought I’d do one of these with probably the only bit of good news about the election…the voters of Michigan…man, you gotta love them as they turned out in force for dems and turned control of the entire government over to the dems for the first time in 40 years…yep the entire damn government here is no longer going to be run by the election denier maga repubs who lost here big time…and that is due to the fair redistricting that was enshrined in the constitution by a vote of the people in 2020 so the repubs can no longer cheat…but the repubs did win the house so we are in for nothing but bullshit for the next two years…now, the dems still have control for two months so we can still get a few things done…still not going to read much news for a while yet unless trump gets indicted…and I need that to happen right now…