Reblogged from Michigan Radio by Jack Lessenberry
… we’ve transferred power to the lobbyists and special interests.
Years ago, soon after term limits first took effect in Michigan, a friend of mine served her three terms, and was forced to retire. To my surprise, her husband ran to succeed her. She came to the Legislature with a background in local government; he had none.
I thought his running was somehow faintly wrong. In any event, he lost in the primary, possibly because he had a different last name than she did.
If anyone had asked me then, I would have said I thought his candidacy was an aberration. In fact, the only aberration was that he happened to lose.
These days, politics in Michigan is a sea of elected nepotism.