Happening EVERYWHERE! Time for a real insurrection?-----In $1B spending spree, Michigan lawmakers gave $13M to two unions

In $1B spending spree, Michigan lawmakers gave $13M to two unions

• Legislative grants allow lawmakers to direct public money to specific projects in a secretive fashion
• Lansing’s budget process is broken. 
• Tucked inside, The Detroit News found, was a $1 billion spending spree, negotiated behind closed doors, and lacking basic details on which lawmakers requested the funds and who would get them.
• House Minority Leader Yousef Rabhi, D-Ann Arbor, summed it up best to the newspaper. The backroom deal-making, he said, was “shady as hell.”...