'Wrong Font Size' Keeps Michigan's 'Shock Doctrine' in Place

- Common Dreams staff 

 

Opponents of Michigan's emergency manager law who had gathered more than enough petitions to put the law on the November ballot were told yesterday that it wouldn't happen because the petitions had used the wrong font size.


Organizers had hoped to suspend Public Act 4, the Local Government and School District Fiscal Accountability Act, also known as the “emergency financial manager law” signed by Gov. Snyder last year.  The Center for Public Integrity explained that with the law, "appointed managers can nullify labor contracts, sell public utilities and dismiss elected officials."  Greatly contested was the ability of emergency managers under this law to nullify collective bargaining agreements.