Governor Rick Snyder announced on his Facebook page today that he was going to sign the tax bills passed by the Michigan legislature at a ceremony being held Wednesday at a Lansing area business. These are the bills, of course, that raise taxes on senior citizens and working families to pay for a $1.8 billion tax handout to big business, a plan that even Snyder himself said might not create a single job in Michigan.
So while Governor Snyder may want to celebrate, word quickly spread about the event and protests were being planned. The Governor's own facebook page lit up with angry commenters blasting his announcement:
It is a sad day when we cut school funding so that we can give businesses a break.
Recall Rick Snyder!
Dont remember seeing taking the shaft to the people in the Reinvention plan....Hmm.
As protest organizers were planning to descend on the business hosting Wednesday's event, Snyder must have gotten cold feet and pulled the plug on the event completely as it is now being held, in a much quieter fashion, in the Governor's own press auditorium in his downtown Lansing office. Media invitation required, of course.
So he's now left signing a bill hated by Democrats and Republicans alike, holed up inside the safety of his secured office away from the sight and sounds of the public he is turning his back on. At least his corporate CEO friends will still have his back.