The state board of canvassers approved a petition to recall Governor Rick Snyder. Nine other petitions were rejected because of spelling errors and other defects.
“A petition to recall Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder was approved by the Board of State Canvassers Monday after more than 100 citizens attended the meeting in anger over the Flint water crisis.
“The petition approved aims to recall Snyder for creating the State School Reform/Redesign Office. Another nine petitions more directly related to the Flint water crisis were rejected (full list below.)
“The approved petition is valid for 180 days after approval at the Board of State Canvassers level. To move forward it must collect 789,133 signatures in a 60-day period within that 180 day window. Doing so would then put a question before voters statewide, most likely on the state’s Aug. 2 election.
“The board has considered around a dozen such attempts to recall Gov. Rick Snyder since November of 2015, but has rejected each attempt before today’s meeting. On Monday the board rejected nine of ten petitions for reasons ranging from misspellings to the misstatement of a law’s title.”
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The wheels grind slowly. And the lead is still there, and those takeover districts in mostly lowincome minority communities are still in place…and…and..GET OUT AND VOTE.
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Oh the poetic beauty. The state of Michigan has received a dozen petitions to recall Governor Rick Snyder, most from residents of Flint. The state rejected all but one for spelling errors. The one they accepted was from education activists and techers who object to his circumventing elected school boards. That one didn’t have any spelling errors.
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*teachers
Ha! Good thing I didn’t write the petition!
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I’m glad some of the petitioners are looking at the rejection of their petitions as a chance to amend the mistakes and resubmit them. As the Board pointed out, court challenges could kill them and negate a lot of work gaining signatures. The challenges to petitions at this hearing from an attorney for the governor should have made that obvious to everyone. It must be horribly frustrating when picayune quibbling seems to trump genuine injustice, but if you want to win, you have to be better at the game than your opponents.
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Calling Dr. Raj, calling Dr. Raj . . . . STAT.
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Robert please stop this BS.
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Oh my, Raj . . . . Looks like some major education reformers are going to experience some reform themselves.
Guess you’ll have to idolize someone else besides Earley and Snyder, Raj.
You know the old adage, Raj: One man’s BS is another man’s treasure . . . .
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Where is Brian Whiston?
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http://www.macombdaily.com/article/MD/20160204/NEWS/160209838 Here he is! Saying that “school reform” is up to the governor. He’s just the Superintendent of all Michigan schools. I’ll bet he will step down in the coming years after having to deal with all the children that will need services due to their lead poisoning.
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Snyder and Earley, at the VERY least, should be arrested and thrown in jail. They should be tried and found GUILTY, and then face a choice: 30 years in jail or they can drink the equivalent of ten pounds of lead.
Gulp, slurp . . . .
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If only Americans could recall the U.S. Dept. of Education.
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And Obama and his lap boy Arne Duncan.
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Snyder is an outright criminal that has robbed the children of Michigan of a decent education.
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He has also robbed them of non-educational components within their life as well. He is a derelict and sociopath and should be imprisoned.
Imagine how such brain damage affects one’s day-to-day basic personal maintenance skills and faculties.
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Snyder has outdone Marie Antoinette. Take a look at the cake he had made for his wife’s birthday party. Kinda tone deaf, ¿qué no?
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2016/02/rick-snyder-wife-birthday-cake
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Ironically, the silver-ish gift wrapped box (fondant with marzipan?) is eerily close to the true color of . . . . lead.
This is the new gilded age: poison the poor and tickle the rich. The juxtaposition of this cake with those, poor, poor, pitied children and families ingesting lead laced water makes the Hunger Games look like a Disney Channel show.
Shame in Snyder! He ought to have his head smacked swift and hard. I am SO angry.
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Though they had already seen it, my kids (24 years old) and I watched the Hunger Games together. I started getting so angry and upset at the parallels to what is happening in our country that we had to stop the movie for a bit so I could walk it off. They know I’m passionate about our public schools, but were still startled at the depth of my rage.
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Linda–A group called USPIE (U.S. Parents involved in Education) lead by many of the major leaders–Stotsky,.Pullman, Milgram etc of the anti Common Core group–and supported by Michelle Malkin are organizing to get rid of the Dept of Education now. I hope it works
. I wish that in these Republican debates more questions about Common Core, ESSA, high stakes testing, opt outs, charter schools and the Dept of Ed were presented. I hear these promises to end CC but I no elaboration. I would love to see some tough questions put to Kasick and Bush. Clinton and Sanders aren’t helpful either.
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The debates have had no specific questions about education. The corporations and billionaires prefer to operate in the shadows away from public scrutiny. Most of the privatization of public services that has occurred has been done away from the spotlight of public opinion and without public input.
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Petitions to reject a governor responsible for poisoning an entire town get rejected because of spelling errors?
By the administration responsible?
That pretty much says it all.
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Not really the responsible administration. It actually is bureaucratically understandable.
In something as big as a recall, small errors can lead to people trying to invalidate it on the grounds that what was voted on did not accurately target what it targeted. Like the wrong name – or the wrong name of a place.
The law doesn’t function well on “well you get the idea” – it really does need to be that accurate. You wouldn’t want to be prosecuted on a badly written law nor should someone get deposed based on a bad vote.
Totally support the recall, also support the board in doing what it needs to in order to make sure whatever is done sticks. Proper spelling is definitely not a huge thing to ask for though the things misspelled were the things spell checkers don’t catch really – names and places.
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There isn’t a teacher alive who has to read papers who hasn’t had a student whine in exasperation, “But I spellchecked it!” How many times have we heard someone blast the autocorrect feature for “correcting” their post? No computer ap is going to be able to check titles or place names. Someone has to check by hand. There is no way around it. To expect some poor clerk to take the blame for not correcting a petitioner’s mistake is unreasonable. Just like a teacher should have students make corrections, it is the job of the petitioners to police their own work. They have the opportunity to do that and resubmit their petitions.
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IMHO rejecting petitions because of spelling errors is absurd.
It has nothing to do with “you get the idea”.
Such errors mean nothing and could easily be corrected by the party tasked with overseeing petitions.
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This was just posted about Snyder. He may be recalled because of “illegal takeover of schools. http://thinkprogress.org/education/2016/02/09/3747559/michigan-governor-recall/
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Thanks for posting this!
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