Paul Scott Recall Update

One of the things I was watching was the ongoing battle in Michigan's Genessee County to recall transphobic conservanegro state Rep. Paul Scott (R-Grand Blanc) from office.  

In addition to earning the ire of the trans community in Michigan and beyond for his rampant transphobia, the cookie chomping knee-grow made the mistake of pissing off educators in the state.

Scott heads Michigan's House Education Committee, and pissed off teachers in the state and his 51st House district by shepherding the state cuts in K-12 funding and new taxes on pensions.  He has also been influential in pushing teacher tenure reform efforts championed by Gov. Rick Snyder (R-MI) that made it easier to fire teachers.

An enthusiastic recall effort spearheaded by teachers and people in the 51st District exasperated with Rep. Scott and funded by the Michigan Education Association got organized.   The Genessee County Elections Board approved the language on July 23 and the effort began to collect the 9,600 signatures required to force the recall election.  

The Recall Paul Scott team collected more than 12,000 signatures in a mere two weeks and the Michigan Bureau of Elections validated 11,000 of them, putting it well over the number needed to get the recall question placed on the November 8 ballot.

Rep. Scott struck back by filing a suit to stop the recall effort in Genessee County which was denied, then he took his efforts to stop the recall to neighboring Ingham County.   A divided Michigan Court of Appeals three judge panel surprisingly issued a 2-1 vote ruling to halt the recall despite the fact that absentee ballots for it had already been sent out, their rationale being the Genessee County judge erred in not granting the injunction to Scott.

The legal fun continued to reverse that ruling and Ingham County Circuit Court Judge Clinton Canady issued an injunction on October 6 to take the Paul Scott recall off the November 8 ballot.   

With a drop dead date of October 25 looming as to whether or not the now on legal life support recall effort could continue, another appeal by the Recall Paul Scott proponents was filed to the Michigan Supreme Court to flip the legal script and let the recall election happen. 

On Wednesday their legal Hail Mary was successful when the Republican dominated Michigan Supreme Court unanimously ruled against Rep. Scott and overturned his injunction and the Court of Appeals ruling. 

Ah, I love it when democracy is allowed to happen.

The recall election is back on, and Michigan voters in the 51st District will have the opportunity on November 8 to decide whether this transphobic teacher basher gets to stay in the Michigan Legislature until the 2012 election cycle or gets kicked to the curb ASAFP.

You know what outcome I'm rooting for.   Care for an Oreo, Paul?

Yeah Herman, It's My Fault

The more I see of this conservanegro cooning it up for the GOP 2012 presidential nomination, the more I dislike his Oreo cookie chomping behind.   He's also doing his utmost to secure his lead as a front runner for a 2011 Shut Up Fool of the Year award winner.

Hard on the heels of his jacked up comments dissing Black voters, now this knee-grow goes after the Occupy Wall Street peeps by saying it's your fault if you don't have a job and you're not rich.



Nope, didn't make that one up, peeps.   But you know, like every broken conservafool clock, it's right twice a day and here's one of those moments.   

Yeah Herman, you're absolutely right.  It is my fault.   It's my fault I didn't spend more time in Democratic Party politics at the precinct level after going to the state district convention in 1984 as a 22 year old alternate delegate

It's my fault I didn't spend more time warning white voters hellbent on rolling back African-American and Latino progress out of jealousy and fear that they were getting bamboozled and screwed by the same GOP politicians that they elected in droves.

It's my fault one of those white GOP voters allegedly from Alabama called in to a September 1995 CNN Larry King Show and told the world and Sen. Jesse Helms (R-NC) he deserved a Nobel Prize for everything he'd done to 'keep down the n-----s.'


It's my fault I busted my azz in school to get good grades, played by the rules, and like many of my peers couldn't find a job for a few years commensurate with the level of education I'd attained  because we had the misfortune of doing our searches in the Reagan 'Greed Is Good' merger mania years, and the situation is worse for the kids who followed me.

It's my fault you conservafools told POC kids to pull yourself up by your bootstraps and you too can achieve 'the American Dream'.   Then you kept shifting the goalposts, changing the rules, cutting the straps on our boots and calling us 'shiftless, lazy, and un-American' while doing so.

It's my fault you conservafools kept enacting policies that made it harder for mine and future generations to even have a better living standard than our parents and grandparents while you and your kids got fat and wealthier.

It's my fault you conservafools continued to follow a failed political philosophy that squandered a budget surplus, nearly bankrupted this country, poisoned race relations and got us bogged down in an unnecessary war all to enrich your bank accounts.

It's my fault I didn't fight you bastards in the GOP harder in the 1980s to defeat you at the ballot box and make your brand of conservafool BS as laughable and politically radioactive as being a card carrying KKK member is today.