- Five new cities under an unelected Emergency Manager’s rule — Flint, Hamtramck, Allen Park, Inkster, and Detroit, Michigan’s largest city
- Over half of Michigan’s African Americans without democracy at the local level
- Five new school districts in financial emergencies and under Emergency Managers — Pontiac, Hazel Park, Buena Vista, Highland Park, and Muskegon Heights
- Enacted a new Emergency Manager law just three months after voters rejected the previous similar one at the ballot box
- Dissolution of Buena Vista and Inkster school districts due to lack of funds
- One in ten Michigan schools facing bankruptcy
- Michigan’s unemployment rate stagnant two months ago and actually increased last month.
- Taxes raised on over 50% of Michiganders
- Taxes increased on seniors
- School funding slashed
- Decimation of our public school system through increasing numbers of for-profit charter schools, the highest percentage in the nation
- Huge tax break for corporations that appears to have had little if any effect
- Michigan’s largest city in bankruptcy
- Lack of transparency in his administration including a top aide being paid from a privately-funded slush fund
- Secret “skunk works” group working to privatize/voucherize Michigan schools in violation of the constitution
- Passage of widely unpopular right to work legislation
- Failure to pass Medicaid expansion that will save billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives
http://www.eclectablog.com/2013/08/with-four-years-of-a-downward-spiral-will-rick-snyder-even-run-for-another-four-as-governor.html
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