https://www.counton2.com/news/national-news/ap-michigan-democrats-win-special-elections-to-regain-full-control-of-state-government/


Democrats won back a majority in the Michigan House and restored their party’s full control of state government Tuesday thanks to victories in two special elections.

Mai Xiong won the special election in the 13th District, which covers Warren and part of Detroit, while Peter Herzberg won in the 25th District, which contains the cities of Wayne and Westland. Both candidates were favorites in the heavily Democratic districts.

The lower chamber has been tied 54-54 between Democratic and Republican lawmakers since November, when two Democratic representatives vacated their seats after winning mayoral races in their hometowns.

Democrats flipped both chambers in the 2022 midterms while maintaining control of the governor’s office to win a trifecta for the first time in 40 years. They moved quickly to roll back decades of Republican measures and implement the party’s agenda in their first year, including overhauling the state’s gun laws.

Since the House deadlocked, Republicans have pushed to pass legislation they say is bipartisan, such as a government transparency package, which would open the Legislature and governor’s office up to public record requests.

With each Democratic candidate winning Tuesday, the party will regain control through the end of the year, with every seat in the House up for reelection in November.

Xiong is a Macomb County commissioner who was endorsed in the primary by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Herzberg is a Westland City Council member who defeated a Whitmer-endorsed candidate in the primary earlier this year.

Lawmakers are now expected to turn their focus to a state budget with a self-imposed July 1 deadline. Whitmer in her annual State of the State speech in January called on lawmakers to pass a $80 billion budget that would provide free community college for all high school graduates and free preschool for 4-year-olds.

In recent months, Democrats have also deliberated on expanding the state’s hate crime law and enacting a comprehensive school safety package of bills in the wake of the 2021 mass shooting at Oxford High School.

Lawmakers will be working against the clock. They are set to take a summer break at the end of June and representatives will soon begin campaigning in their districts.

Need to step up the undocumented bus rides to Michigan

w00t! Time to continue fucking everything up full steam ahead bitches!!

Free college and free daycare (preschool for 4 year olds).

Gretchen is putting out those stretch goals.

Some bad foreshadowing for November

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Your idea is to import more Democrat voters?  

"Free" means "taxpayer funded."

Michigan democrats “ win “, special elections.

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Democrats "win" election.

Democrats vote for their nominee.  Republicans  bitch, moan and send mean tweets if their nominee does not score 110% on their purity test.  Then they claim the election was stolen,

So these new “free” things are going to be paid for how and by whom exactly?  Oh that’s right.

Yeah.  :(

GD's celebrated bussing illegals for years at this point.

Welcome to the party pal(s).

Move to a free state

“…comprehensive school safety package of bills…”

AKA civilian disarmament.  There’s no school safety in any of those bills.  Of course, this is nothing new from stretchin’ Gretchen’s regime.

I bet the repubs didn't go vote.

What happens when a state goes Bankrupt?  It's probably going to happen somewhere soon if it hasn't already happened. Shit, our country will probably go bankrupt immediately after the elections especially if Trump wins.

Move were to the south? Naw I will stay and fight!

You have to be a special kind of stupid to keep voting democrat!

Post covid elections.

There was never any doubt those dem/soc/com districts were going to retain those seats in the house.

The agenda for anti-freeeeeedom and government over reach is back on track.

It's like they're racing to devalue the college education, too. If it's free and government sponsored, isn't it just grade 13-16?

QFT

Free shit is a powerful drug.

It said the races were in heavily Democratic areas. Probably wouldn't have mattered.

My thoughts exactly.  They “won”, sure, suuure.  

Not necessarily. The headline reads like they flipped districts but those were already heavily Democratic areas that lost Dem reps to leaving office. So it was originally 56-54 Dem, went down to 54-54 when the reps left, now it’s back to what it was before.

It’s the 2022 election that was suspect.

Yep. Just look at the misguided in GD crying about any Republican who says anything they don’t like. Elect the democrat who votes against you 99% of the time. That will show the Republicans.

Thank you for giving us some hope.

Another state lost

Republicans had one Job and Failed again

I think you understand what they are doing now.

Directions to Free States are …. South and West.

Pack up now while you’re still free to leave.

Not saying you might be wrong but weren’t these two districts democratic leaning anyway?

the Michigan GOP is completely fucked. Broke as hell and being run by a fucking DEI hire retard

Hopefully Thomas and Alito make it another 4 year Biden term.

I, at least, see what you did there.

The militia movement is the gift that keeps on giving for the Dems.  Get some yahoo with a few beers in him and have him talk into a FBI microphone. Almost as good as the sexual harassment garbage.

Wisconsin can use your help… just saying

Commie State Does Commie Thing. Film at 11.

This

"win"

dammit, beat by the clock

We have a lot of work to do to unfuck this state.

"If voting could change anything, they would work to outlaw it..."

Coming to everyone's State soon. There will be no Free State to run to because the commies plan to take it all.
We can't vote our way out of this shit.