In Benton Harbor, MI the State Government has used the city's fiscal instability to remove power from democratically elected city officials. This is the first community to have local government dissolved under Michigan's new Emergency Fiscal management law. Coincidently the representative who sponsored the law was on the board of a golf course development that had a difficult time taking over a major city park in Benton Harbor last year. Using a financial crisis to grab power is always wrong, as we well know here in Wisconsin.
I am supporting the people of Benton Harbor in their right to govern themselves and resist this blatant power grab. I hope that Walker sees the wave of resistance to this undemocratic action and rethinks the EFM bill that he has been preparing for Wisconsin.
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