Failed DC Chancellor Michelle Rhee and the Union Scam, Election Edition
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The state of Michigan has put what I think is the country's most intriguing referendum question on its ballot this year. The state, which has been the subject of the gentle ministrations of Republican Governor Rick Snyder and his cronies for the past few years, is asking its citizens to decide whether the ability of workers to bargain collectively should be enshrined as a right in the state's constitution. (FWIW, collective bargaining is recognized as a human right by Article 23 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the Supreme Court in Canada also recognized it as such in 2007.) The battle over the ballot question has broken down along predictable lines, although it is fairly hilarious to see the Michigan Press Association lining up against the proposal alongside the Mackinac Center For Public Policy, a "free-market" idea chop-shop that is, among its other charms, a hotbed of climate-change denial. The press association claims that it is afraid that passage of the amendment would weaken the state's sunshine laws.
But, thanks to a great grab by Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns, and Money, we also discover that prominent education "reform" grifter Michelle Rhee, and the political-action committee of he
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