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Greetings everyone. I feel this is an important issue and therefore am
sharing this email I received from Angela Meyers.
William Gordon
County Chair

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From: Angela Meyers <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, Aug 2, 2019 at 12:29 PM
Subject: Lawsuit Filed to Stop Commission from Disenfranchising Michiganians
To: William Gordon <[email protected]>


Earlier this week, plaintiffs filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court
for the Western District of Michigan to prevent the Michigan Citizens
Redistricting Commission, established by last year’s...

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William,
Earlier this week, plaintiffs filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court
for the Western District of Michigan to prevent the Michigan Citizens
Redistricting Commission, established by last year’s Proposal 2, from
violating Michiganians’ Constitutional rights.

The Freedom Fund’s own Tony Daunt, in his capacity as a private citizen, is
the lead plaintiff in the suit.

The Commission unconstitutionally prohibits residents from joining if they
or a family member serve or have in the last 6 years served their
communities in any one of a number of roles, including as a precinct
delegate to the state Democratic or Republican Parties. The rules, which
brazenly violate the Constitution’s 1st Amendment right to freely associate
and the 14th Amendment’s equal protection guarantees, would disenfranchise
at least a half-million current Michigan residents, illegally excluding
them from serving their community on the Commission.

Proposal 2 of 2018 set up the rules for creation of a 13-member commission
to draw new legislative and congressional district maps beginning in 2021.
According to the proposal, the commission would be made up of 4
Republicans, 4 Democrats and 5 members of no or other political parties.

Despite its openly partisan make-up, the Commission unconstitutionally bars
individuals and family members of individuals – even those with wildly
different political opinions – who in the last 6 years have served in any
of a large variety of civic service roles.

No one should be punished because of who they are related to, where they
work, or their or their loved-one’s willingness to serve their communities.

The Michigan Freedom Fund is proud of the plaintiffs who’ve stood up
against the Commission’s unconstitutional attack on every Michiganian.

Sincerely,
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Angela Meyers
Senior Advisor
Michigan Freedom Fund
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*Detroit Free Press: *Republicans Sue to Block Michigan Redistricting
Commission
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*“Any reform, no matter how poorly conceived, must achieve its goals
without infringing on the basic rights guaranteed to all of us by the
Constitution,” said Scott Walker, the former Wisconsin governor who is now
finance chair for the GOP redistricting group, in a statement. “Michigan’s
new redistricting commission falls short of that standard by punishing the
people of Michigan for exercising those rights — or for being related to
someone who has.”*

*Michigan Capitol Confidential: *Power Outages? Utility Renewables Schemes
May Mean ‘Get Used to It’
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*"But as DTE and Consumers Energy implement their ideas for generating
electricity in the future — called integrated resource plans — customers
can likely expect lower levels of power reliability."*

*Detroit Free Press: *Heavy Equipment Operators Strike, Raising Concerns of
Road Construction Delays
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*"Rieth-Riley countered it has agreed to essentially all wages, terms and
conditions of the new Michigan Union Contracting Group agreement that was
put in place early this year, with the exception of the union’s
subcontracting clause, and added union members earn $58.67 a hour, $73.48 a
hour on overtime."Michigan residents have spoken loud and clear," the
company said. "They want to have the roads fixed. But rather than fixing
the roads at a lower price, the union wants the taxpayers of Michigan to
pay a higher price only because of the union’s greediness."*


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