A petition for the recall of Governor Rick Snyder was approved today.
The Washtenaw County Election Commission approved the language of the petition, which states – among other things – that the governor "sought tax increases upon retirees and lower income families."
Tim Kramer is with Michigan Citizens United, which helped craft the petition. Part of the petition talks about how Governor Snyder obtained power through emergency financial managers.
“I think the thing that tripped the trigger for me was the EFM law. That’s a dictatorship, in my opinion. You can’t have that. You can’t go in and remove the mayor of a city, just because you don’t agree—basically he can do it because he doesn’t agree with them, you know?”
Governor Rick Snyder opposed the recall petition.
Attorney John Pirich represented the governor.
"I think anyone who would read the language would see that not only is it not clear, in our opinion, but it’s also very misleading in regard to events that have not occurred or events that are just completely inaccurate."
The petition supporters say they know they are fighting an uphill battle to collect more than a million signatures before August 5th.
They believe that’s how many they will need in order to get the recall request put on the ballot.
