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CODE YELLOW: Have you seen these Democrats?By Nick, Section News
 Monday morning finds the House of Representatives exactly where it was Friday afternoon. At an impasse. But contrary to what Speaker Andy Dillon and his friends in Democrat leadership would have you believe it isn't the Republicans who are holding up the proceedings. As one hour melted quietly into the next during the weekend one thing remained as constant as the general boredom on the House floor. Ten Democrats were consistently present in and around the chamber but failed to register a vote on the $1.2 billion House Democrat tax hike. Not a YES vote. Not a NO vote. They just plain never voted. An act of cowardice? Political calculation? Mass alien-abduction?
Rep. Terry Brown (D-Pigeon), Rep. Barb Byrum (D-Onondaga), Rep. Marc Corriveau (D-Northville), Rep. Robert Dean (D-Grand Rapids), Rep. Kate Ebli (D-Monroe), Rep. Martin Griffin (D-Jackson), Rep. Mike Simpson (D-Liberty Twp.), Rep. Dudley Spade (D-Franklin Twp.), Rep. Mary Valentine (D-Muskegon) and Rep. Lisa Wojno (D-Warren) have all gone missing. Read on...
With 48 Democrats voting in favor of the job-killing income tax spike the majority party needs only eight more votes for passage. That's eight of the ten members who refuse to vote. While Dillon insists he's holding out for Republican votes all in the name of that coveted "bipartisan" label there's been no assurance that the ten members not currently voting would then vote YES on the Democrat scheme.
In other words, he's not driving for bipartisanship... he's pushing hard to give his vulnerable caucus members a pass and an excuse to vote NO. He knows that a vote to raise taxes is a vote to kill jobs and drive families away and he knows that a state with a 7.2% unemployment rate and more moving vans leaving the state than entering it can hardly afford to do either. So why sacrifice your own soldiers when you can sacrifice someone else's? Make no mistake, Speaker Dillon is playing at nothing but partisan political games. And what of our missing Representatives? While they sit idly on the sidelines there are nearly one-million Michigan residents who find themselves without a voice in Lansing. They've failed to do their jobs, abdicated their responsibilities and put partisan politics above public service. That's the great un-told story of the weekend. Not surprisingly none of the members have made much of a peep with the mainstream press, either. Which makes a guy wonder... are they even on the clock at all? Because I'm certain our friends in the MSM would love to speak with each of them... they're the power players in this. They're the decision makers. They hold all the cards. Every Republican and 48 Democrats have done their jobs, one way or the other. But ten State Reps remain MIA. So if you've seen Rep. Terry Brown, Rep. Barb Byrum, Rep. Marc Corriveau, Rep. Robert Dean, Rep. Kate Ebli, Rep. Martin Griffin, Rep. Mike Simpson, Rep. Dudley Spade, Rep. Mary Valentine or Rep. Lisa Wojno please contact your local newspaper or TV station. They've gone missing in the middle of a critical vote and owe their constituents an explanation.
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