Tag: Rep. Joel Johnson

The various bills lifted the arbitrary cap on charter schools and empowered parents to pursue the education choices that work best for their kids.  As you probably know, two-thirds of the state's charter schools, most in urban districts like Flint, Grand Rapids, Lansing and - of course - Detroit, have waiting lists a mile long as parents demand more choices and better results for their children.

Despite the major advances and the fact that lawmakers listened to parents late last year, 2012 is an election year and some members of the state House Republican majority are worried about raising the ire of the MEA and their teacher union cronies.

Snyder told reporters on Wednesday the wave of recalls is "part of democracy."

"The big question is, most of us were elected just last November," he said. "As a practical matter, to be recalling people ... I know in my case I'm just following through on what I said I was going to do."

Sorta sounds like an Obama you got what you voted for, doesn't it?  The funny thing is that during the Primary and General elections when on the rare occasion that the dark horse Yobbite candidate Snyder spoke, he's pretty much still telling you the truth.  Y'all bought into his Centrist Tripartisan Corporatism, so what's the problem now?  Yessiree, you've got your big government, labor unions as embolden as they've ever been, and the private sector business and citizens still forced to cater to the aforementioned.  Recipe for success?  Ohio and Wisconsin didn't think so, and there's little on the recall front going on there.  Heck, in Wisconsin the only real goings on is they're recalling {gasp} their Democrats!