TO SNYDER, SCHUETTE: CALL FOR REPEAL OF PA 4 SINCE ‘SPECIAL INTERESTS’ BENEFIT; NO ON PROP 1!

Cecily McClellan (l) and others from “Free Detroit–No Consent” protest Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder’s appearance in downtown Detroit Nov. 1, 2012. A new poll published by the Detroit Free Press shows that PA 4 may be going down to defeat. VOTE NO ON PROP 1!

OPEN LETTER FROM RUSS BELLANT TO AG BILL SCHUETTE:

Russ Bellant

November 1, 2012

Attorney General Bill Schuette –

This is an open letter that I am sharing with about 1,000 Michiganders that is prompted by your reverence for the Michigan Constitution as displayed in your TV ads opposing Proposal 2, which would add collective bargaining rights to the Constitution for more employees than the state troopers that already have such rights in our Constitution.

In order to further your cause of protecting the Constitution, may I suggest two other special interests that are already abusing the Constitution that require your immediate attention:

Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette

1) In Article I, Section 10 of our Constitution, it says that “No bill of attainder, ex post facto law or law impairing the obligation of contract shall be enacted.” Yet our reckless Legislature passed and our Governor signed a bill, Public Act 4 of 2011, that enables appointees to impair contracts that would give our 1963 Constitutional Convention chairman, George Romney, heartburn. Not only was this law passed, but it is being widely implemented and contracts are being impaired across Michigan.

Do you think that you could help rectify this deplorable situation by calling for a repeal of PA 4 by issuing a press release calling for a NO vote on Proposal 1?

Michigan Supreme Court Justice Robert Young declared that PA 72 cannot be revived if PA 4 is defeated.

I know that you directed staff to argue in the Supreme Court that Prop 1 should be kept off the ballot so that voters could not decide this issue, but we all make mistakes.

Speaking of mistakes, did your Assistant AG tell you that in the July 25 Supreme Court proceeding that Chief Justice Robert Young insisted that PA 72 could not be revived with the mere suspension of PA 4, but then your staff argued in a Wayne County court that it could be revived? Did you know that your staff used a nonexistent citation to make their argument? Seems like someone in a position of responsibility should lose their job in all this mess, doesn’t it?

Perhaps the group sponsoring your ads to protect the Constitution (the Michigan Chamber of Commerce, which is not a special interest?) could pay for some NO on 1 ads with you as the centerpiece, but keep the stone-faced Ionia Sheriff in your Prop 2 ads out of this one – he reminds too many voters of the cop who gave them a ticket for 5 over. The YES on 2 Sheriff has you beat on this one.

Some of the 10,000 people who turned out to protest Public Act 4 in Lansing on April 13, 2011.

2) If you read Article VIII, Section 3 of our violated Constitution says that “Leadership and general supervision over all public education, including adult education and instructional programs in state institutions, except as to institutions of higher education granting baccalaureate degrees, is vested in a state board of education. It shall serve as the general planning and coordinating body for all public education, including higher education and shall advise the legislature as to the financial requirements in connection therewith.”

Now that seems straight forward enough. But again, our Governor, whose office is not even accorded a role in education, has set up a “state school district” and appointed a board to start running that “district” and receive taxpayer funds. Further, he has used his powers of the unconstitutional PA 4 (see above) to take schools from a local school district and claim them for his own “district.”

Did you know that some of those school buildings are being paid for until 2033 by taxpayers who thought that they were voting to approve bonds to build schools for their own local district before the Governor swooped in and just took them? Is that a form of voter fraud that you could investigate? Its almost like a compounded unconstitutional crime wave, wouldn’t you say?

Mr. Attorney General, there are a lot of concerned citizens that wish to arrest this unlawful activity. Please let us know when you are ready to stand with us by redeploying your bully pulpit.

You should consider this a formal complaint and request for action. Please let me know if I must resubmit it in a larger font size.

Recent news: Freep poll shows Prop 1 going down: http://www.freep.com/article/20121101/NEWS15/121101058/Michigan-s-emergency-law-danger-being-scrapped-poll-shows

Related article, “Stand Up to Corporate Power” at http://www.nationofchange.org/national-unions-and-chamber-commerce-face-michigan-1348500880

Article on Educational Achievement Authority at http://critical-moment.org/2012/06/25/the-educational-achievement-authority-detroits-top-secret-school-district/