Former Michigan Department Party Chairman Mark Brewer tweeted that Snyder “continues to give the back of his hand to urban areas whether it’s emergency managers, poisoned water, and now being denied
representation in Congress for nearly a year.”
But Jonathan Kinloch, chairman of the 13th Congressional District Democratic Party Organization, said earlier this week that having the elections on the regular dates would avoid the typical low turnouts associated with
special elections.
The local district is in agreement with the Gov, but the state party is against it. I am guessing there is a back story as to the opposing positions. Would appreciate any insight from locals to this conflict of views.
Oh - and f— Gov Snyderman.
Snyder is another republican POS!
Michael Gilmore, a Detroit attorney who is running for the seat, said not having representation in the House for almost a year is unfair to residents.
“Yeah, I know,” Snyder replied, toasting his decision with a frosty bottle of Trump Ice.
Conyers ought to reverse his decision to step down immediately.
It is unusual for a congressional district to stay vacant for so long, but if it’s good enough for the Supreme Court then it’s good enough for Detroit. Besides, what else would one expect a fiscal conservative to do but spare his constituents the expense of an unnecessary election. Taxation without representation is so 18th Century.
And don’t you just know that if Conyers was a Republican, Snyder would already have picked his GOP replacement? Hey, Governor, when are you going to give the people of Flint some clean water to drink? Just another perverted, hypocritical Republican…but then, I repeat myself.
So I guess that Snyder didn’t play ball with Democrats? Who could possibly have foreseen that? Where would be without our amazing Congressional leadership?
And you think they’re not going to do something similar with Franken’s seat? Please Al don’t resign!
(PS I propose a #methree campaign for all the Democrats who have fallen for Republican lies and dirty tricks. Maybe Kirsten Gillibrand can write the first post?)
Democratic Governor in Minnesota, so that won’t be an issue…
I don’t think Snyder, or any other governor, has that power. The Constitution specifically provides that “When vacancies happen in the Representation from any state, the executive authority thereof shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies.” (Article I, §2) The Constitution does not specify a time frame for the election but it’s easy to infer a reasonable time rather than leaving his constituents without representation until the next general election, i.e., Snyder is predictably being a transparently partisan hack.
In Minnesota the governor makes an appointment to fill the Senate vacancy, and the appointee serves until the next regularly-scheduled, statewide general election.
The governor can make the appointment but the new person still will have to be seated in the Senate.
The longest time a seat stayed empty was about 10 months — both in 2014, when Rep. Melvin Watt of North Carolina left to head the Federal Housing Finance Agency, and 2006, when Rep. Bob Menendez of New Jersey was appointed to the Senate.
Both were Democratic seats. The NJ governor was a Democrat (a Goldman Sachs Democrat). The NC governor was Republican.
I don’t have a nanogram of trust in Snyder, but the local Democratic group gives him easy cover.
Detroit, a city of about 680,000, currently does not have any resident serving in Congress.
Man, that city has had it rough. It has dropped down to just a little over 1/3 of its peak population. You can’t expect the city to maintain aging infrastructure built for 3 times the current population. The place needs a major re-imagining and a budget to make it happen.
Taxation without representation is the GOP way these days. Just watch Kobach and Trump’s voter elimination commission push to achieve their goal of removing 0.5 million Democrats from voter roles in key districts ahead of 2018 congressional election. The republicans cannot afford to allow Dems to take back House or Senate ever again.
Deny a majority-black district representation in Congress for nearly a year? It’s modern gubernatorial!
Similar story in Gov Andrew Cuomo’s New York. On Jan 1, there will be two vacant NY Senate seats that would quickly be Democratic if a special election were called. Gov Cuomo won’t call the special elections till after the spring budget discussions–because he want to negotiate the budget behind closed doors with the GOP/IDC caucus that controls the senate rather than with Democrats. IDC (Ind. Dem. Conf.) consists of 8 Dem senators who have been paid off by Mercer and other GOP donors to caucus with GOP–and deny the elected Democratic majority control of the Senate. Cuomo supports this outrageous and corrupt arrangement.
No more family dynasties in politics. Enough is enough.
That’s actually somewhat irrelevant since the Dems have no power and practically no voice in the House right now. Until the Democrats take back the House, they’re really only in Congress for show.
Good luck with that.
If politics is what you hear from your parents around the breakfast and dinner tables when you’re growing up, chances are good you’ll be interested in doing the same thing.
That works all kinds of professions - medicine, law, acting, painting. We’ve always had political dynasties. And that’s why.
Why not let him keep the seat until the next election, only make him wear large signs front and back that say “No Women within 30 feet”