| After the failure of the most important piece of government reform legislation, Public Act 4, to pass ballot box muster, a moment of reflection... LANSING -- As hundreds of right-to-work proponents prepare to converge on the state Capitol today, there's talk of a deal under which Republicans would back off the controversial measure in return for cooperation from labor groups and Democrats on other issues, such as a new emergency manager law.
I actually think that's a deal worth taking, if it's relegated to the emergency manager law. In fact, they should have gotten input from Democrats and labor on the emergency manager law in the first place, so it would have been more palatable and less prone to nutty conspiracy theory mongering by Rachel Maddow. That is, if the deal doesn't includes a bunch of really toxic, odious shit like labor sitting on the sidelines during the 2014 election or the other things we've been hearing about. |
