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For Immediate Release
Date: Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Contact: Matthew Morgan – 202-226-5543
Conyers, Governor Snyder, Rev. Williams Discuss Emergency Managers Law
(WASHINGTON) – Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) and Reverend Charles E. Williams II, President of the Detroit chapter of the National Action Network, met Governor Rick Snyder to discuss Michigan’s Emergency Managers law, Public Act 4. The meeting occurred prior to Governor Snyder’s testimony before the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
U.S. Representative John Conyers, Jr. and Michigan Governor Rick Snyder discussing Emergency Manager Law in D.C. |
Previously in a letter written to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder last December, Representative Conyers requested the Department of Justice to review, monitor, and if necessary challenge the application of Michigan’s Emergency Manager law on the basis that it may violate the U.S. Constitution.
Last December, Representative Conyers sent a letter to Governor Snyder, along with two other members of the Michigan’s U.S. House Delegation, 55 State Legislators (9 State Senators and 46 State Representatives) and 8 Detroit City Council Members, requesting a meeting with Governor Snyder before he took any further actions under the Emergency Manager Law. The letter also expressed concerns that the Emergency Manager law undermines voting rights and democratic principles (including disproportionately disenfranchising persons of color), as well as collective bargaining rights. Furthermore, It expressed their concern regarding efforts by Governor Snyder’s administration to pursue additional stop-gap legislation to thwart voter initiatives to revoke the Emergency Manager law.
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