CM Doug Zylstra explains former Republican Attorney General of Michigan Mike Cox is on record saying the commission doesn't have the authority legally to replace the health administrator without cause. Then Jacob Bonnema says CM Curran's question went unanswered... #OttawaCounty
Rewind 5 minutes, and you'll see Curran asking about the review process for the position. Moss quickly pipes in, unrecognized by the chair, and proceeds to sandwich grandstanding between two questions.
This is corporate misogyny on full display. Joe Moss is a pig and a coward.
Moss makes a last ditch effort to coach CM Cosby behind the scenes in an illegal closed session deliberation; he doesn't even have the floor. He loses his "MOTION!" to recess.
Cosby drops the bombshell: Ottawa Impact illegally conducted county business using campaign donations.
CM Zylstra asks a few questions that make it very clear CM Cosby and Ottawa Impact were acting as commissioners before they were sworn in.
Cosby thinks this is a game, and smirks as she repeats a cringy talking point built on hope for a likely non-existent legal loophole.
Doug asks important questions and Joe Moss interrupts to grandstand, equating violating OMA to helping citizens take back their government.
Doug expertly redirects the conversation back to actually broken laws. Cosby contradicts herself, backtracking from deciding to considering.
Finally, as a palate cleanser, I give you @DrRobDavidson, eloquently outlining exactly how Commissioner Cosby implicated herself and all members of Ottawa Impact in a conspiracy to circumvent the Open Meetings Act and enrich Joe Moss' business partners family.
Reading my mind at the time, @DrRobDavidson hopes @MIAttyGen@dananessel watches these videos to see these unforced errors snowball into entire confessions of major criming, including having a political non-profit like Ottawa Impact correctly oversee county business.
If Gretchen Whitmer stood at the podium tomorrow in front of a press conference and said she's replacing top level government staff with a list of people she got from Planned Parenthood, it would be Armageddon across the Mitten.
This is the county level right-wing equivalent.
The Kallman-Moss conflict of interest isn't deniable.
If our attorney is replaced by a stooge, when Joe Moss tramples on the rights of residents and gets inevitably sued, his business partner's family gets paid to defend the county
Ottawa Impact gets more donations from them.
So in short...
The KallMoss grift is real.
Joe Moss is a swine and a coward.
Ottawa Impact is a crime family, and not even the fun kind, the whìte natìonalist kind.
MI AG should look into these videos.
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A lot of really smart people didn't study poli-sci at a Catholic school in West Michigan and don't know many of the architects behind Project 2025 are the product of local Catholic pushback against liberation theology in Latin America in the 90s and 2000s
Not me. I interned with Jeff Smith in college. No activist in the country has tracked Acton Institute and the DeVos Family more thoroughly and consistently than Jeff.
Betsy DeVos saying she wants in with Trump again reaffirms the Project 2025 threat.
Every bill in this article is good actually, and Senator Nesbitt again confuses what is good for his wealthy donors and what is good for the Michigan economy and its workers.
When he has to choose between the two, he'll pick his donors every time.
"California raised a national alarm when it adopted a narrow definition of who qualifies as an independent contractor."
The national alarm this raised was at Uber headquarters because they were exploiting their drivers. California is one of the largest economies in the world.
"Bills in both chambers (SB 334, HB 4550) would set firm nurse-to-patient ratios for hospitals."
Nolan claims this would lead to bed closures because of a nursing shortage. But you fix a shortage with training and higher pay, not by literally killing people which high ratios do.
I'm at the Ottawa Area Intermediate School District Board meeting.
Guess what the Ottawa Impact whack jobs are upset about on this agenda...
#OAISD covers career and technical education through the Career Line Tech Center, Special Education through the Ottawa Area Center, and other non-traditional education paths for Ottawa County.
Multiple school districts in the area benefit from their services.
If you remember me speaking at the Ottawa County Board of Commissioners about my late friend who lived with autism, his teachers and a few of his caregivers were from #OAISD. His parents moved to Holland to access these services.
I'm at the Zeeland Public Schools Board of Education Meeting. Big budget meeting.
The room is overpacked, and my whack job alarm is going off very loud, but ZAAC is also here and they are pretty much heros. Rumor is there will be a book ban chat.
There is a second issue on the table that may be driving the majority of people to this meeting. The board is considering having 24 half days on the calendar next year, when most schools have 4-6. They were added as a way to accommodate tea her trainings tied to state funding.
The large amount of half days doesn't seem to have any real defenders. Most people seem to agree students don't learn as well on a half day.
We're drinking if anyone brings up watching a movie in class! #ZeelandSchools
1/7 2,000 days ago, a few thousand Michiganders started collecting signatures for a petition to end gerrymandering.
If they handed their petitions in today instead of December 2017, they still would have collected an average of more than 200+ per day or 8+ per hour. #MIPol
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2/7 In the very first election after maps were ungerrymandered, our entire legislature both reflected the electorate proportionally and also was controlled by Democrats for the first time in my life.
The new governing trifecta opened up new legislation.
3/7 For decades, Republicans had blocked meaningful policy change in Michigan despite mass shootings, catastrophic oil spills, the poisoning of a city's water supply, and access to health care and other critical services across the state.
Why did @wopanthers fire Ryan Lancaster as head wrestling coach? He's been regional coach of the year 2 years in a row, which means he was a contender for state coach of the year twice. He started the girls wrestling program.
The school's reasons are dumb and vague...
The athletic director insists that Ryan didn't win enough. Off the bat, you know they're full of it. I've lived here for decades. Other sports have horrible records without coaching changes. It's a clear cover-up for something politically motivated...
I heard a rumor, and take it with a grain of salt, that the secretary of Mac Bay is dating a guy who wants the job, and there were anonymous letters written to the athletic director saying Coach Lancaster didn't have the juice, despite him clearly delivering the goods...