If Election Was Held Today, Michigan’s Snyder Would Lose
If Michigan voters could do it over, they would pick Democrat Virg Bernero as governor over Rick Snyder by a slim margin. That’s a major drop in popularity for Snyder who won by an 18 percent margin in November. And it’s all due to his anti-worker policies.
Here’s why Snyder lost favor so fast. According to a new Public Policy Polling survey released today, his financial martial law bill is hugely unpopular in the state with 50 percent of voters opposing it and only 32 percent supporting it.
Even more Michigan voters (59 percent—32 percent) believe public employees should have the right to collective bargaining and 49 percent would favor a state constitutional amendment to guarantee it and 37 percent would not. Even nonunion households understand the value of collective bargaining with 53 percent saying they support bargaining rights.
Lansing Mayor Hammers Unfair Traders
Mayor Virg Bernero of Lansing, Mich., is telling it like it is. In a commentary on CNN, Bernero takes on those pundits who claim the market and free trade will cure our economic ills. Here’s some of what the mayor says:
With all due respect, the free traders need to ask themselves a more fundamental question: How will Americans buy those goods when they don’t even have a paycheck that covers their mortgage, much less the college tuition for their children?
Bernero says President Obama’s stimulus package is badly needed, but it is just a beginning.
