Democrats and a couple of Republicans just killed the DeVos school voucher program on the House Floor.
Victory for public schools and our students today
I just took a Lyft, and my driver was a high school physics teacher. He has a newborn baby at home and drives after school for extra money to be able to make it. This is unacceptable. We have to treat teachers better than this.
I can tell you that making a cameo on
@jimmykimmel
for questioning Rudy Giuliani during an evidence-free hearing and startling him so much that he farted definitely wasn’t on my 2020 bingo card 💨
Michigan will become the first state to repeal the anti-union Right-to-Work Law in nearly 60 years.
That process starts tomorrow.
We're ready to restore workers' rights and get back to our Labor roots.
This was one of several attempts to create voucher programs in Michigan. Voters don’t like them. And they don’t work.
Public dollars go to public schools, not private for-profit companies.
We must stay ready to push back as I’m sure DeVos and her allies won’t give up easily.
Trump is rambling. He’s low energy. He’s old. He’s boring. And he’s a convicted felon who wants to take our country back only for himself. He has not offered any solutions for regular people.
Let’s beat him.
Welcome to Michigan, Mayor
@PeteButtigieg
!
There are only a handful of Maltese-Americans in public office, so I never thought I’d ever see a Maltese candidate for president.
It’s a new day in Michigan — and Democrats have earned a majority for the people in the Senate AND House!
Don’t ever bet against the working people of Downriver or Macomb County. When we put in the work, we can and will win.
Let’s make history with gavels in our hands!
Shortly after voting for gun safety bills, I had the honor of meeting
@GabbyGiffords
at the Michigan Capitol. She came to witness history — and we delivered. We’re very grateful for her years of advocacy and her mission to turn pain into power.
Let’s get it done!
A baseball team just finished a series in NY and will be flying home tonight and landing at DTW. The players will likely be taking buses after that.
Can someone warn
@matthewmaddock
that it’s just our
@tigers
coming home for opening day?
Clearly the only coup the Trump campaign was successful in was taking over our state legislative committee.
This isn’t Four Seasons Landscaping.
What a ridiculous and shameful waste of taxpayer money.
Will we ever get a chance to ask questions or is Rudy now the chairman?
Good morning, just a reminder that if Democrats didn’t take over the Michigan legislature last fall, the man who invited a now-indicted Rudy Giuliani to testify before our Oversight committee in his pursuit of overturning our elections would be Speaker of the House.
WE WON!
I’m grateful to my neighbors across Downriver and Western Wayne County for placing their trust in me to serve as their voice in the Michigan State Senate.
For all those wondering how I learned the patience to deal with excuses and wild stories with no evidence like we saw yesterday:
I was a high school teacher before getting elected. Heard pretty much everything you can imagine as to why my students didn’t do their homework.
BREAKING: After years of Republican obstruction, the Michigan Senate just voted to repeal the Retirement Tax.
Democrats are bringing real relief to our retirees in our first 15 days of a majority.
We’re one step closer, and I proudly voted YES ✅
Nearly 9 years ago as a first-year teacher, I had to fundraise to get a classroom library and needed to build my own curriculum.
Today, I chaired my first committee over the school aid budget and will work to ensure that no teacher lacks the resources they need to do their job.
During a hearing that Michigan Republicans are using to continue questioning this election, I was ruled out of order for asking clerks to confirm who won the most votes in their county.
Seriously.
In a committee. About the election.
What are they so afraid of?
Congrats to
@PeteButtigieg
on his appointment as Transportation Secretary! He will be the first Maltese-American in a President’s cabinet.
Looking forward to working with him to solve our train crossings and local bridge issues.
For what it’s worth, I heard from a local
@Teamsters
leader in Michigan just this week who was looking for *hundreds* of Harris-Walz signs to pass out from their union hall.
Members know that it was DEMOCRATS who saved their pensions in DC and repealed RTW in Michigan
We passed my bill to restore workers’ rights in Michigan ✊🏼
Thank you to our union brothers and sisters for fighting for better workplaces for all. Our state has your back.
#1u
BIG NEWS! I'm running to represent Downriver and Western Wayne County in the Michigan State Senate.
Our communities deserve bold leadership in Lansing -- and we shouldn't have to settle for anything less.
Let's go win!
#CamilleriCrew
The Michigan State Capitol is once again closed due to an outside threat. Our government is consistently under attack because of the sitting President of the United States and his supporters.
The Michigan Senate just voted to send $125 MILLION to schools for mental health and school safety — BUT Senate Republicans BLOCKED these dollars from going to school districts immediately.
They should be ashamed of themselves for slowing down these crucial supports for
Wow. She said she was an IT professional.
It would have been good to know that Ms. Carone was on probation for committing a computer crime, but we didn’t get much notice of who was going to be before our committee.
Also, she’s from Downriver?!
I got a little heated today while defending workers rights and unions in Michigan. I am here as a State Senator because of the promise of a union — and I am proud that we are restoring rights for workers, starting today. And I will push back any time people try to tear us down.
In a close race, I’ll be taking on the title of Michigan’s youngest serving Senator next year, beating out
@MaryforMichigan
by a few months.
I’m so excited to serve in the majority with other young folks, too. We’re going to lead and build a Michigan for the future.
Today, as chair of the PreK-12 budget, I introduced and passed the most progressive school budget in Michigan’s history.
💰$9700/pupil
📚Full funding of special ed
✏️Educator student loan forgiveness
👩🏽🏫Higher teacher salaries
🥪Universal school meals
👶🏼PreK for All
Due to safety concerns for tomorrow’s Electoral College vote, the entire legislature is closed and will be working remotely.
I’m thankful for the courage of our electors who will be exercising their democratic duty and selecting our next President.
My former opponent went to the Wayne County Board of Canvassers meeting to allege there were issues in our count because I got more votes than Biden did in our area.
Little does he know that I've out-performed the top of the ticket every time. Voters like our work!
I’m in a competitive state senate seat that could help Democrats win majority for the first time in my lifetime.
Help this former teacher protect our public schools and stop DeVos from ever controlling the Michigan legislature again:
Grosse Ile, MI is my most Republican community. I lost it big in '16, narrowed the gap in '18.
We were within 0.5% of winning Precinct 1 on the Island, and made it a goal to flip it this year. After knocking there three times, we won it by 1 vote.
Every conversation matters.
So the Republicans can swear in Chris Thomas, but I couldn’t swear in Rudy Giuliani?
I was repeatedly gaveled down for trying to get their witnesses to tell the truth and told “we don’t do that in Michigan.”
An absolutely infuriating double standard.
Michigan Senate Oversight Chair Ed McBroom says on livestream he will ask Detroit elections advisor Chris Thomas and other witnesses to take an "oath" before testifying today. House Oversight GOP chair refused Dem request to swear in Rudy Giuliani and his witnesses last week.
Before she was a representative, Thompson’s radical political organization raffled off an AR-15 the week after the Uvalde school massacre.
As a representative, she voted against common sense gun safety legislation.
She also voted against the school budget which included mental
I absolutely voted No. you and your Democrat legislators told Michiganders these Laws work. You lied to the people of Michigan. Not one of those laws stopped a man from shooting innocent families at a water park in Oakland County. So I am here standing, telling you laws are only
.
@RepRaskin
makes the point that Trump encouraged and excused extremists in Michigan who stormed the state capital there and who plotted against
@GovWhitmer
—"as a pattern and practice of inciting violence."
#ImpeachmentTrial
The Michigan Legislature’s Brown Boy Caucus.
We’re Latino, Arab, and Indian-American. Come from families of immigrants.
And we’re going to do big things next term for our communities!
On Friday, April 19th, I married the love of my life and celebrated among our closest family and friends.
I can’t wait to spend our lives together, Lama ❤️
Last night’s oversight hearing was a platform for baseless conspiracies and already debunked claims of fraud. How shameful.
Watch what happened when I asked Rudy Giuliani if this circus is just a part of his reported seeking of a presidential pardon:
Went to grab food after a long day of campaigning, and when I got to the window, the server said:
“I saw you at the reproductive freedom rally. Thank you for standing up for our rights.”
She’s only 17 but is going to get her family to vote.
This year is different, y’all.
The people of Downriver stand with the people of Dearborn.
Right now, the best way to support the people of Dearborn — and quite frankly all of humanity — is to support a ceasefire.
I hope
@POTUS
and other national leaders are listening.
Today, the Governor signed my bill, SB34, which restores workers rights in Michigan. Thankful for the last 10 years of advocating and organizing to make this happen.
We are going to be the home of protecting workers across the country to balance the playing field for all.
Not only was the Rudy show dangerous to our democracy, but it also was a threat to our health.
We knew it was a bad idea, but my Republican colleagues in the state legislature pushed on anyway -- endangering all of us in that hearing room and the capitol.
Time to get tested.
Rashida Tlaib on Shri Thanedar: “While he is busy posting memes, his residents are calling my office asking for my assistance because he is absent from doing his job.”
@nannburke
Today, I introduced a resolution to formally censure Rep. Matt Maddock over his actions, including fomenting sedition and insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and filing lawsuits to overturn the will of the people.
Recently, he has also mused about civil war.
Enough is enough.
🚨 Our first TV ad of the campaign is up! 🚨
Like the song says, I was born and raised in South Detroit…
In the State Senate, I won’t stop believing — or fighting — for a better future for Western Wayne and Downriver families.
👋🏼 I’m a millennial state legislator in Michigan and got dozens of death threats for standing up to Rudy Giuliani in my committee and for debunking the Republican lies about the election.
I did my job. These cowards in the Senate need to do theirs and protect our Republic.
Police in Uvalde, Texas wouldn’t go into a classroom to save children from a mass shooter, but NYPD sends a battalion to enter a classroom in New York to end a student assembly against war.
Make it make sense.
Correct. This board has deadlocked before when approving language for initiative petitions or verifying petition signatures to meet requirements. The courts have always stepped in to make sure the canvassers follow the law.
This matters because if Trump and Republicans somehow succeed in pressuring the two Republican members of the state board to refuse certification, the courts will have the next say.
“Well, I’m pro-choice,” Mr. Camilleri responded, “and very proudly …”
Mike cut him off. “Well, you’re getting my vote then,” he said. “Easy enough.”
As he walked down the driveway, Mr. Camilleri remarked: “That happens all the time. All the time.”
New: The battle for control of state legislatures has outsize importance this year, as state governments steer the direction of voting laws, abortion access, gun policy, public health, education.
SCOTUS could soon add federal elections to that list.
This speech from
@JoeBiden
is so radically different from the tweets and tone of our current president.
Clear and strong leadership that would have saved so many lives if he was in charge right now.
We need Joe.
Voter (in Spanish): “Why is your Spanish so good?”
Me (in Spanish): “Because I’m Latino from my mom’s side. I also studied it in school and abroad.”
Voter: “Thank you for speaking to me in Spanish, it’s easier. You have my vote because of it.”
Me: 🥲
Unidos ganamos 🙌🏼
This is not a joke: Amid a public health crisis, Michigan House Republicans are taking up a resolution today to urge the courts to reverse their decision on Healthy Michigan.
They are literally asking to take away healthcare from hundreds of thousands of our residents.
I’m honored to serve as Assistant Majority Leader for the Michigan State Senate next term!
Our new Majority is excited and eager to get to work as we focus on improving the lives of working families across Michigan.
Important historical context about I-375: When built, it cut through and destroyed Detroit’s Paradise Valley and Black Bottom, two thriving Black neighborhoods full of Black-owned businesses and entrepreneurs. Areas that rivaled Harlem.
Policymakers knew what they were doing.
I come from a family of immigrants and union auto workers who instilled in me the will to fight for a better life.
They also taught me to believe that there's no dream to big.
I hope to earn your vote for state representative again.
Let's go win, together.
My last call to a voter tonight was to a constituent who is currently stationed at Langley Air Force Base.
He said:
“I just want a President that I don’t have to worry about everyday. I want to be able to trust that my government has everything under control.”
Vote
@JoeBiden
A bipartisan group of clerks told us on the record today this was the most secure election they’d ever seen, but some of my colleagues can’t seem to accept that. The people of MI have spoken, and it’s time to respect their will & get to work on the serious issues we face together
Haters: “Darrin, it’s been 20 years. Don’t even bother. You’re just a state rep — you can never build that bridge. The trains will always be a problem!”
Me:
It’s official: Michigan’s 16 electoral votes go to
@JoeBiden
and
@KamalaHarris
.
They won our state by over 154,000 popular votes.
A new chapter in America’s story is on the horizon.
We have a school budget!
A truly historic bipartisan investment in our students, educators, and communities.
I’m so proud to have led this process and get it across the finish line ✅
Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) yells at the GOP over union organizing bill: “Heaven forbid we pass something that’s going to help the damn workers in the United States of America.”
He adds: “Now stop talking about Dr. Seuss, and work with us …”
Earlier on Facebook, one of my constituents called me a moron because he’s unhappy with the exec order that limits recreational boating.
So, I gave him a call.
At the end of the 20-min convo, he offered me some walleye once this is all done and looks forward to talking again.
Could we not amplify the message of a few dozen white supremacists at the capitol today and instead focus on saying thanks to the State Police, National Guard, Capitol Commission, Governor, AG, and Lansing Mayor and Council for so far deterring any major issues there?
SCOTUS denies the Texas lawsuit.
Never forget that 15 Michigan state legislators and over 100 members of Congress tried to overturn our election because they didn’t like the results.
A democracy, if you can keep it. Today, we did. Tomorrow, we continue the fight to protect it.
Gun violence has shaped our collective experience in ways that we must not accept.
For the MSU students this week, my uncle 30 years ago, and the thousands who die every year, we will finally act when others have refused. And we will do so in the name of freedom.
A Michigan senator says he’s drafting a bill to outlaw radioactive waste storage in our state. The bill is being drafted as radioactive waste is being transported to Van Buren Township starting this month through January 2025.
As a state legislator who represents a competitive district in Michigan, I don’t understand the games Senators Sinema and Manchin are playing. Pass policies that are popular and help people. Don’t make it about you. Fight for investments for home, and vote yes.
In one of the worst versions of Lansing politics I’ve seen in my six years in office, House Republicans have referred our Hispanic Heritage Month resolution and my Maltese-American Heritage Day resolution to the Government Operations committee to block them.
I’m stunned.
In Michigan, Republican politicians had a chance to support unions and workers, but they didn’t.
Democrats repealed the anti-union “right-to-work” law
Democrats restored prevailing wage for construction workers
Democrats invested in green jobs and manufacturing jobs
Michigan lawmakers have been taking the final steps to send Right to Work repeal and restoration of the state's prevailing wage law to the governor's desk. Here's the latest:
I know you didn’t read it because not only did you vote against $600m back into the classroom, you voted against $250k to finish a sidewalk to Woodhaven High after that student died crossing the street.
Darrin Darrin Darrin, Did you read the budget? It cut money for school resource officers while raiding the teachers pension fund to pay for Whitmer’s spending.
Instead of hiding behind children, how about you urge your colleagues to support the school safety package introduced
News: It's Michigan.
Mich is poised to replace Iowa as an early nominating state for Democrats in 2024, per senior officials.
Will be formally taken up by DNC this weekend, but the White House has decided.
I first reported Mich was being eyed here:
Thank you Secretary
@JocelynBenson
for visiting the SOS branch in Brownstown and sharing updates on the new appointment and walk-up system. The branch was not busy at all because customers are in and out quickly. What a major improvement! Thank you for your leadership.