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Originally Posted by Rochard
This has nothing to do with one party over the other. This is a local city government issue. We tend not to think about this, but our local city governments are bigger than we think - they take care of our garbage, our sewage, our roads, fire and police departments, and also our water supply.
Our city governments make a lot of these decisions behind our back without discussing them.
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Rochard, this was not the local governments doing. Rick Snyder was elected in 2011. Almost immediately after taking office in 2011, he appointed emergency managers that took over a lot, if not most of the local governments responsibilities when it comes to decision making on the services you mentioned. It is called the emergency manager law. You can read a little more about it here... (not going to bother hotlinking it since its a government site)
michigan.gov/snyder/0,4668,7-277-57577_60279-283632--,00.html
Ironically, its an article explaining why Michigan "needs" the law. I think when it was signed, it was probably a good idea, but Snyder wasted no time in taking advantage of it, and as you will hear in his own words from the video that is posted on that page, making changes to that law, that in my opinion, removed a lot of oversight that would keep that law from being abused.