This week Weekend Edition host Rina Miller and Michigan Radio’s political analyst Jack Lessenberry discuss the lame duck session in Lansing.
While right to work was passed despite massive protests, Lessenberry says there is only one way it can be repealed.
“People could petition with the legislature to repeal the law and if they don’t then it goes on the ballot,” he says.
The question is, is if anyone will actually do it.
And a package of abortion bills were sent to Governor Snyder’s desk.
“The package passed is mainly regulating abortion clinics, putting them under more scrutiny, making sure that people coming in for a procedure weren’t coerced,” Lessenberry says.
And finally, a new emergency manager law also moved forward.
“This gives emergency managers more power than the old emergency financial managers have. But it also sort of gives cities a choice--whether they want an emergency manger, whether they want to move to bankruptcy or have a consent agreement,” Lessenberry says.
