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Mon Jul 10, 2006 at 16:40:09 PM EDT
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...or at least I assume so. The Hannahdog and I happened to wander through the SOS Michigan press conference outside the Dick Austin building before it got started. After taking some ribbing from Peter Luke over my dress code (or lack therof - I was wearing a T-shirt, shorts, and sandals) I noticed some guy in a suit (heh) writing a figure in the neighborhood of 502-some-thousand on a dry erase board. Behind the podium was a bunch of cleverly decorated boxes (presumably filled with hundreds of thousands of store-bought signatures from people who think this is just about getting rid of pensions for legislators.) They need 317,000 or so signatures, so I assume we're on for November. I didn't stick around for the talking heads. The Hannahdog had more important things to do - like hoof it over to Riverfront cycle to get a new and unpunctured innertube for my velocipede.
No word yet on whether Grover Norquist will actually be moving to Michigan to help with the SOS campaign effort. If he does, he may have a hard go of it - everyone from the Guv to the Chamber to Tim Skubick is against this stupid idea.
In other ballot proposal news: questions that would criminalize abortion and do away with the Michigan Senate do not have sufficient signatures and will NOT go before voters. Everyone knew this would happen, but didn't say so because these two proposals gave the scribes some darned good filler for weekend stories. Every year has at least one or two famous non-proposals like this. |
| matt :: 'Drown gov't in a bathtub' proposal moves ahead... |
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