Invoking the powers recently bestowed upon Michigan’s emergency financial managers by the Republican legislature, Joseph L. Harris, the Granholm-appointed emergency financial manager for Benton Harbor, yesterday dissolved all elected bodies within that city. (His official order can be seen below.) This, I believe, is the first instance of an emergency financial manager exercising the bold, […]
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And so it begins… Benton Harbor’s EFM becomes first to invoke new powers, dissolve elected government
Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged AFL-CIO, Benton Harbor, collective bargaining, corporate fascism, Detroit Public Schools, Ecorse, Emergency Financial Manager, Emergency Financial Manager’s Act, fascism, financial martial law, Jennifer Granholm, Joseph Harris, Joseph L. Harris, Pontiac, Rick Snyder, threats to Democracy, union busting | 27 Comments