Snyder Signs Controversial Oakland County Redistricting Bill
County Executive L. Brooks Patterson says Democrats who oppose the new law should 'get over it.'
Gov. Rick Snyder has reportedly signed a controversial bill that could overturn a map drawn by an Oakland County committee charged with redrawing districts after the 2010 Census. Quoted in the Detroit Free Press, Snyder spokeswoman Sara Wurfel said the governor signed the bill because it "brings greater transparency to the process" by ensuring that only elected officials participate in redrawing boundaries after the dececennial census. The new law puts the board of commissioners in charge of drawing new districts in counties with a population more than 1 million and an optional unified form of government with an elected county executive. Wayne County also meets the population threshold, but has a charter form of government, so Oakland is…
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6:00 am on Tuesday, December 27, 2011
In this and the new year, people should remember Governor Snyder teamed up with County Exec Brooks Patterson and County Commissioner Dwyer to indicate that it’s okay to circumvent the process by retroactively changing the results of an election. Snyder's veneer of "bipartisanship" has been totally stripped away. Fair-minded people can clearly see these "leaders" as the power hungry "band of … more ›