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This article originally appeared on Up North Progressive on December 29, 2018 On Christmas Eve Rick Snyder closed the citizen’s input hotline early to ensure Michigan taxpayers could no longer call and object to the shame duck bills he signed just in time for Gretchen Whitmer to take over on January 1, 2019. It’s the […]

Today 18 Detroit Public Schools closed for the day as their teachers went to Lansing to protest the Nerd’s announcement of his latest plan to destroy public education in the city. The city’s public schools, after decades of constant attack from politicians and school reformers finally had enough and went to Lansing to let Snyder […]

Rick Snyder eliminated 400 union jobs in Michigan so he could privatize the prison food system with a contract to Aramark. So far we’ve had maggots in the food, sex between staff and inmates, staff selling drugs and murder for hire.  Lots of relentless, nothing positive with this action, Governor Nerd.    

In a Mother Jones article published today, the writer speculated whether the scandal surrounding Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin could splash over to other Midwestern Republican governors elected in 2010. Snyder’s NERD fund is mentioned with the suggestion that the secret donor fund was actually a “pay to play” scheme for corporations to get kickbacks […]

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