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Breaking: Judge denies Dillon's desperate demand to stop recallBy leondrolet, Section News
Friends,
Speaker Andy Dillon quickly appealed this past Wednesday's federal court order that the Secretary of State must count ALL the valid signatures on recall petitions from voters in Dillon's district (regardless of where the petition circulator lived) and place the recall on the November 4th ballot. Dillon appealed the court order, claiming that he did not have enough time before the September 8th deadline for printing ballots to challenge the signatures as fraudulent. Today, Federal District Court Judge Robert Bell denied Dillon's request to stop the recall election. Judge Bell stated,
"Representative Dillon was well aware of the tight schedule for challenging the recall petitions. Michigan law does not guarantee that state representatives will be given a second opportunity to challenge recall petitions in the event some portion of the state law is deemed to be unconstitutional. There was no impediment to his raising all of his challenges to the recall petitions by the June 2, 2008, deadline for submitting challenges. Representative Dillon effectively waived his right to challenge the authenticity of the signatures on the petitions circulated by non-residents and/or non-registered voters by failing to timely raise those challenges.
Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Intervening Defendant Andrew Dillon's motion for reconsideration is DENIED." Dillon's attorneys will be driving down to Cincinnati this coming Tuesday hoping the federal Sixth Circuit will interpret things differently - and do so in time to stop those ballots from being printed on September 8th. Stay tuned.
Leon Drolet
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