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Today would be a good day to donate to Michigan Democrats. [1]

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Date: 2023-03-09  

As Laura Clawson notes in her front page story this morning:

Michigan Democrats are showing what’s possible when Democrats win control of a government. After the party got a trifecta in Michigan for the first time in decades, lawmakers have not wasted time.

On Wednesday, the Michigan House voted to expand the state’s Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act to include protections for sexual orientation and gender identity.

...Also on Wednesday, the House Labor Committee advanced bills repealing the anti-union “right to work” law put into place by Republicans in the 2012 lame duck session and restoring a prevailing wage law that would guarantee union-level wages for workers on state projects.

...On Tuesday, Whitmer signed a tax relief law benefiting low-income workers and retirees.

...Where the state Senate moved before the House to codify civil rights for LGBTQ people, the House moved first on repealing the state’s 1931 abortion ban. While voters nullified that ban in November by passing Proposal 3, as with LGBTQ rights, you can never put the right thing into law, or strike the wrong thing out of law, in too many ways. That House vote also happened last week.

Michigan Democrats are also working to strengthen the state’s gun laws. They’ve proposed enhanced background checks, a red flag laws to keep guns out of the hands of people deemed a risk to themselves or others, and a safe storage law that would penalize people who don’t safely lock up their guns or who allow minors access to guns.

...None of this—or at absolute best enhanced background checks—would be happening if Republicans still controlled even one chamber of the legislature.

...We always say elections matter. Michigan Democrats are really showing what that means.

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