Michigan’s Republican-led Legislature is working to ban local governments from doing things none has tried: from taxing soda-pop to prohibiting job interview questions.
[The following is a PrideSource editorial by Jeremy Moss]
If you launch a campaign for State Representative, you can raise money from individual donors into a candidate committee.
A bill that’s been called “Citizens United on Steroids” flew through the House of Representatives today, opening up the campaign finance floodgates even more for candidates and super PACs.
The House and Senate acted swiftly on Tuesday to send a pair of bills that would codify and expand on the 2010 U.S. Supreme Court ruling Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission to Gov. Rick Snyder for signature.
The Legislature gave final approval Tuesday to a plan that would allow political candidates to raise unlimited amounts of money through super political action committees.
Michigan political candidates could solicit unlimited contributions for independent committees, or super PACs, supporting their candidacies under legislation approved along party lines Tuesday by the Republican-led Legislature.
Republicans in Lansing worked at a breakneck speed today to pass legislation expanding campaign donation limits to certain types of big donors.
The House Elections and Ethics Committee on Tuesday passed bills allowing candidates to work closely but not coordinate with independent expenditure committees like Super PACs, teeing it up for a swift journey to Gov. Rick Snyder's desk.
“Radical hate groups” are domestic terrorist organizations, according to a resolution adopted Wednesday by the Michigan Senate.
The Democrat-sponsored resolution, taken up by the Republican-led Senate on the first day of fall session, specifically denounces white nationalists and neo-Nazis following a deadly clash last month in Charlottesville, Virginia.
The Michigan Senate on Wednesday adopted a "civility compact," in which lawmakers promised to unite against hate. The House is expected to follow suit next week.
"Michigan is a welcoming state and no one should have to live in fear of hate, bigotry and extremism," said Sen. Margaret O'Brien, R-Portage, the lead sponsor of the resolution in the Senate.
