Michigan’s Recall process is a “right” under the Michigan Constitutution. Answers to many questions on the recall process.
The Michigan Constitution, Article II Sec. 8, extends Michigan voters the right to recall “all elective officers except judges.” Michigan’s recall process is governed under Michigan election law, MCL 168.951-976
Below are some questions and answers that will help to clarify the Michigan recall process which is a legal “option of the people,” (a recall) to remove elected officials from government positions when they become out of control and disconnected from the people they are suppose to serve and represent, something we all see happening right now, and even in Washington DC and in Lansing. Many of our elected officials are not listening to the majority of people, and have no regard for what they want. We are a nation of laws, not of men, and we are a government of, by and for the people, and they need to once again, listen to the people!
Q. Can I sign my name once to recall more than 1 board member?
A. No, You must sign your name for each person you wish to recall on their own separate petition. A separate recall petition must be circulated for each and every elected official whose recall is sought.
Q. Is there a deadline to collect signatures?
A. Yes. Signatures must be collected and turned in to the county clerk within 90 days of the first signed and dated signature.
Q. Who can legally circulate petitions and collect signatures for a township level recall?
A. The circulator of a recall petition must be 18 years of age, a U.S. Citizen and a resident of Michigan. The circulator of a recall does NOT have to be a registered voter or a resident of the district represented by the person whose recall is sought.
Q. Who can legally sign their signature on the petition?
A. Each signer must be a qualified elector who is registered to vote in the township where the person who is being recalled.
Q. What makes my signature on the petition valid?
A. You must meet the requirements as stated above, plus you MUST, affix your cursive signature, print your name, residential address, zip code and date the petition sheet.
Q. If I make a mistake when I sign the petition, can I fix it?
A. Yes! Just draw a line through the whole line and sign it correctly on the line below it following the above guidelines.
Q. What is a circulator and who qualifies for this?
A. A circulator is the person who take petitions around to gather the needed amount of legal signatures for a recall. As long as you are 18 years of age, a U.S. Citizen and a resident of Michigan, you do NOT have to be a registered voter or a resident of the district represented by the person whose recall is sought.
This is for informational purposes only.
Reply to Elise (Fifelski) DeYoung’s letter to the editor in the Penasee Globe from July 6th edition. She is the wife of County Commissioner D. Mark DeYoung, who sits on the DDA board as well in Dorr Township, who will get their sewer for FREE!
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I would like to reply to Elise (Fifelski) DeYoungs letter to the editor from the July 6th edition of the Penasee Globe. She mentions that this board is doing a great job considering it is a relatively new board? These are the same old board members from the last board with the exception of 2 new trustees! 5 out of 7, is not a relatively new board. Its a recycled board with 2 new trustees who follow the leader, with no opinions of their own. Just the same as the last useless board! They only represent a few, and not the community as a whole.
CLICK HERE >>>> TO SEE WHO THEY REPRESENT.
She says in her letter to the editor that “as new information becomes available, especially concerning the sewer, they do their best to make it public”. That may perfectly be true for Elise (Fifelski) DeYoung, who is so very connected to local politics, as her husband sits on both the Board of County Commissioners and the Dorr Township DDA board, but to those of us who have been going to town board meetings consistently for the last 18 months, trying to get accurate information on this multi million dollar sewer project, it is as hard as trying to dig a flower bed out of your neighbors lot line to put up a fence, and getting knocked on your hind end!
Elise (Fifelski) DeYoung, also says “she for one knows how hard this board is trying their hardest”, and that is true too! Elise should know, as she and her husband, D. Mark DeYoung will be financially rewarded from this hard working board as they will purchase an easement to go down their private road of Hickory Rd. which is owned by Elise and Mark DeYoung. Purchased easements are normally set to the same amount as their sewer system would cost them. (ei. FREE SEWER FOR THEM)
How convenient, that the sewer project will go down Elise (Fifelski) DeYoungs private road to get into the back of Dorr School, instead of going straight down the main street of 18th St. where the property down to Dorr School on 18 st., is zoned commercial for future development? This really causes us to pause and wonder about that intelligent decision, made by this hard working board doesn’t it? They are hard working all right! Working hard to make sure Elise and Mark get their sewer FREE!
The whole reason the board says they want this wonderful sewer system is for development! So our question is, What development will happen on some “private road, zoned residential, with only 2 vacant residential lots, one owned by Elise (Fifelski) DeYoung and the other by her sister, Connie (Fifelski) Holbrook?” And if this project is voluntary, then those on 18th st. who do not want it, don’t have to get on board, right? Also, if they go down 18th st. south of 142nd to Dorr School, there would be no outlay of any easements to pay, but why would they want to do that, when Elise and D. Mark DeYoung would be more than happy to have them come down their “private road” so they get their sewer for (FREE).
Development by the DDA is suppose to be for the business district, yet now they go down a “private” residential road owned by the County Commissioner, D. Mark DeYoung, who by the way also sits on the DDA board, where he voted to give $400,000 of DDA money to this project! He and his wife Elise (Fifelski) DeYoung own that private road of Hickory, jointly?
Looks all pretty suspicious to most normal thinking, hard working taxpayers, don’t it? Sorry, if I ask to many questions, I just don’t like being led around like a blind sheeple is all. I put a nice little google map below with some graphics to illustrate what they are going to do, so you have a nice little picture to set into your brain. They say, “seeing is believing”, well you better see it, because believe me, this is what they intend to do.
Bernard Schumaker
P.S. Elise suggest that some residents thinking is clouded. Well, I don’t believe it says anything in the US constitution about your thinking can’t be clouded nor does it prohibit anyone from being disrespectful, even though that is not a nice thing to do. Those are her opinions, and she has the right to those as I have mine, regardless of whether she agrees with me or not. Im not involved in this to play cat and mouse games with anyone.
I want the whole truth be told! And as the old saying goes, “the truth hurts.”
The RED is where district #5 will run. Notice it goes down Hickory Rd. (a private road owned by the County Commissioner D. Mark DeYoung and his wife Elise (Fifelski) DeYoung who have their residence in circle 1.) Circle 2 is Pat Kaczanowski and circle 3 is Kevin Lincoln, who will all receive easement payments that will amount to the price of 1 free sewer for each of them to get this sewer project into the back door of Dorr school, circle 4. It would make much more sense to run the sewer down 18th St., (see white line going south from United Bank) to get it into Dorr School, circle 4 where they would not have to pay any easements to anyone.
Also 18th st. is * zoned commercial and is the main thorough fare going south from the 4 corners. 18th St. south is the best place to install those trunkage pipes to save easement cost and for the best future development, instead of some private gravel road, owned by the county commissioner, that has owned by 5-Connie (Fifelski) Holbrook, sister of Elise and 6-Elise (Fifelski) DeYoung. This is just total insanity and favortism to run this multi million dollar sewer project down Mark and Elises’s “private residential gravel road.” Why is this town board working so hard as Elise herself says, you ask? We are asking too, with no logical or intelligent answers given. CLICK HERE >>> TO SEE POSSIBLY WHY! If the boards reason for this sewer is development, than run it south of the 4 corners of 142nd down 18th st. to Dorr School for future development. This would be the most sensible way to install this mulit million dollar sewer the correct way and stop all these financial favors to everyone. You are using tax payers money to do this and this is unethical to do. Why do you continue to waste our taxpayers dollars just to get this sewer in as quickly as possible. If you are going to do this huge sewer project that will last over many years, please please please, do it right the first time. Go down 18th st. to Dorr School for the best possible development in the future, which is the whole reason you are pushing this, besides the BIG PUSH from Dorr School.
* I checked the zoning map and 18th St. south is not zoned commercial, but could be rezoned very easily. This is the main county road coming into the very center of town, on which sits the Dorr Elementary school just 3 blocks south of the main 4 corners. It would make much more sense to put the sewer on this main county road then some off the beaten path private gravel road owned by the County Commissioner D. Mark DeYoung. (but they will get their sewer for free doing it this way!)
FOIA and Tammy VanHaitsma, the Dictator supervisor of Dorr Township (YouTube)
