U.S. Representative John Conyers, Jr.'s Letter to Attorney General Regarding Michigan Emergency Manager, December 1, 2011

Letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder from U.S. Representative John Conyers, Jr. requesting review of constitutionality of Michigan Public Act 4 of 2011 regarding the appointment of an Emergency Financial Manager over the City of Detroit.

U.S. Representative John Conyers, Jr.'s Letter to Attorney General Regarding Michigan Emergency Manager, De...

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Whistleblower Reveals Hamtramck Emergency Financial Manager Tom Jankowski

Aide's whistle-blower lawsuit alleges Mayor Dave Bing aimed to eliminate Detroit city council, school board

If you think this whistleblower case with Mayor Bing is provocative, allow me to be the first whistleblower for the City of Hamtramck. 

Tom Jankowski, City Councilperson and former Mayor, under the tutelage of Jim Allen, City Attorney, has no qualms about flexing his certificate of Emergency Financial Manager with his ominous statements in city council meetings of taking over the city and schools.


In City Council meeting last evening, I must say I was quite tickled to hear TJ, as he is so affectionately called, tout his mastery of Michigan PA 4 of 2011.   


Let's have some fun and see how well he has mastered this tool, as he calls it.  Stay tuned.

Emergency Financial Manager: Every Corporation Should Hire A Child

Why is the issue of Michigan's Emergency Financial Manager (EMF) Law relevant to child welfare?  Because it is part of the oxymoronic politics which is sullying the current political climate of change....for the better.

If the state can declare, by any arbitrary and capricious reasoning, that you are not fit to parent, then, of course, logic will present itself that the state can apply the exact same standards to take over cities and schools.

If the state can bust up the union of a family by snatching babies to stick them in foster care to maximize revenues of the state , then the state can bust up labor unions by snatching dollars off the hourly contractually negotiated wages, stick it in their pockets and maximize their revenues.

Tit for tat.  The theory of the game.

If the concept of an emergency financial manager was so prudent, then, allow me to posit this:

How come there is no provision in this new law for an EM in state departments or agencies?

See, I would go with the flow on this one if appointed officials were included in the mix.  See, an appointed official takes an oath of office where that oath is filed in the great repository of the Secretary of State.  When the appointed official does not execute the duties of office, and the department or agency falls into a dysfunctional disarray, the mechanisms of the EM should kick in and allow an autonomous and independent entity, preferably from the Office of Management and Budget, to step in and do what is detailed in the EM law.  This would include sharing of resources, mergers with other programs, etc.  Catch my drift?

Let me give you a living, breathing example for the argument in support of the EM with appointed officials with the State of Michigan:

Michigan Children's Institute Superintendent William J. Johnson

Michigan's child welfare system is so jacked up, Governor Rick Snyder put together a task force to examine why it is so.  What the Governor did was to appoint the same fraudfeasing imbeciles who were responsible for the dysfunction and financial mess [Medicaid fraud and false claims] in child welfare to examine and make recommendations to fix it.

QUESTIONS PRESENTED:

1.  Does Snyder fire the appointed idiots?  

ANSWER: No.

2.  Does he appoint an emergency financial manager to clean up the messes that have been growing since the beginning of child welfare in Michigan?

ANSWER: No.

3. Will the Attorney General Medicaid Fraud Control Unit and its other enforcement divisions step in and do what he is paid to do and prosecute and recovery the fraudulent claims and reimbursements in child welfare?

ANSWER:  Hell No.

4. Who watches the watcher?

ANSWER: The watcher.

So, there you have it.  The State of Michigan will do what it wants, when it wants.  While the rest of the state, or perhaps just these municipalities are focused on fighting for survival, whether it is right or wrong, the EM law is nothing more than a diversionary tactic to distract the masses as the corporations prepare for the unveiling of their next phase of its revenue-maximization scheme: CHILD LABOR LAW

"Every corporation should hire a child."

There is no due process nor equal protection under the law when you are a child.  Now they, the state and corporations, have joined forces and it is not through a quasi-governmental organization.  The union of the state and corporations have now given birth to the Emergency Financial Manager.

Poverty as a crime has been taken to a whole new level.

CRC Webinar on PA 4 of 2011 from Citizens Research Council Michig on Vimeo.

Citizen Research Council of Michigan Emergency Financial Manager Law Report

John Conyers Says Unconstitutional Michigan Emergency Financial Manager Law