UNION RECALL ACTIONS: In Canton, Michigan...

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Friday, July 29, 2011

To:         Canton Observer

Re:         “Colbeck targeted in latest recall drive”, July 28, 2011

I may not like everything my state senator Patrick Colbeck stands for and if I really conclude that he is not doing the job that I think he should be doing, I vote against him in the next election; that is how our democratic process works.

The so called “very, very angry people” who are attempting to recall Senator Colbeck for supporting emergency manager legislation, are not only wasting taxpayer’s money but undermining the legitimate votes of a majority of voters in Canton that elected Patrick Colbeck do a specific job; get our state’s finances in order and get us out of the fiscal morass we are in.

There is no question that the recall effort is pushed by unions angry at the power given to emergency managers that include vacating union contracts that are no longer sustainable and probably very ill-advised to begin with.

Unions, it appears, are not willing to allow our democratic process to properly function but as witnessed by the many union sponsored recalls nationwide, are hell bent on getting their way by hook or by crook.

All I can say to these union lackeys is to grow up and face reality. Michigan is finally waking up and seeing the damage caused by politicians paying unions for their voter support and money by voting for every benefit the unions asked for.

Senator Colbeck is exactly the type of politicians the state desperately needs right now; a politician unafraid to do what is good for the state and its people and not kowtow to union workers and leaders who represent only a small fraction of the state’s population, but are used to getting everything they want, all the time.