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Dillon's final appeal denied, Recall a done dealBy leondrolet, Section News
Yesterday afternoon, the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati denied Michigan House Speaker Andy Dillon's final, last-gasp legal effort to stop an election calling for his recall from office from appearing on the November 4th election ballot.
Dillon was targeted for recall after supporting last year's 12% income tax hike and 22% business tax hike. If you've followed the Dillon recall effort since last year, you're familiar with what an extraordinary battle it has been. Rose Bogaert, Chair of the Wayne County Taxpayers Association, and others supporting the Dillon recall, have overcome extraordinary obstacles including:
1. A corrupt Wayne County Board of Electors which refused to approve the recall petition language until ordered to do so by a court.
2. Frigid, snowy February and March weather for collecting signatures. 3. Paid, hostile `blockers' who Dillon hired to discourage and intimidate potential petition signers. 4. Undercover private investigators hired by Dillon's attorney to infiltrate the petition signature gathering campaign - and who later admitted under oath to deliberately committing fraud. 5. Goons convicted of violent felonies hired to shadow (and intimidate) recall petition circulators. 6. Corrupt local politicians like Redford Township Supervisor, and close Dillon ally, Miles "Boss Hogg" Handy who abused his office to use Redford police to harass recall petition circulators. 7. Unconstitutional state petition circulator laws that made circulating recall petitions significantly harder than circulating any other petition. Rose Bogaert went to federal court to challenge these laws - and won! What an extraordinary victory over enormous odds! Because of the perseverance of Rose Bogaert - and everybody and anybody who helped her - Andy Dillon is the first Speaker of the House in U.S. history to face being recalled from office. And Rose and her supporters (including YOU) have continued a precedent that taxpayer activists set back in 1983, when two state senators faced recall after supporting an income tax hike. That precedent? If Lansing hikes taxes on economically beleaguered citizens, well then SOMEONE guilty is gonna face recall from office! Now, a final phase of this historic battle begins - the recall election itself. Can Rose convince citizens in the 17th House District to recall the Speaker of the House? Or will her message be buried in Dillon's deluge of mailings and Lansing-paid propaganda? Will everything about the recall be buried in the presidential election hoopla? Well, that's all up to the voters of the 17th District and Rose Bogaert. And you. Anyone ready to help finish this fight?
Leon Drolet
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