Up North Progressive

Yesterday, the Michigan State House drafted a resolution “urging” Larry Inman (R-Would it have been okay if Betsy DeVos wrote the check?) to resign his seat as representative for the 104th State House District. On May, 15, 2019, Inman was charged by a federal court for extortion and lying to the FBI. Inman, claiming the feds didn’t interpret the texts he sent to a union leader correctly because there’s the letter of the text and the spirit of the text, refuses to resign and insists he will remain as the elected legislator of the 104th district until the end of his term.

Gunslinger of the House, Lee Chatfield, (R – immune to level 9 TSA abjuration spells), and Christine Greig, (D-Farmington Hills), co-sponsored the resolution draft, which cites the Michigan Constitution’s oath of office and several Michigan House rules about how not to openly be a criminal while serving in public office. Michigan Republicans insist they are the icons of virtue and morality in politics with great examples in recent memory like Cindy Gamrat, Todd Courser, Rick Snyder, and John Engler. They certainly won’t let Larry Inman get away with this outrage.

So far, Inman has been booted from the Republican House Caucus and all of his committee seats. Inman, joking that he should have called instead of texting insists he is being misrepresented and his texts were taken out of context.

In the Era of Trump, why are Republicans surprised when their members holding down ballot offices behave just like Trump? The White House currently houses a reality TV star who made his money laundering Russian mob money, accepted money from people in exchange for influence in his administration to pay for his inauguration, and used campaign funds to pay hush money to porn stars Trump slept with when Barron was a newborn. The current Secretary of Education publicly bragged about buying votes in the Michigan Legislature to get what she wants. The former governor poisoned Flint with lead, exposed thousands of children to the toxic metal and killed 13 people. Yesterday we found out the Republicans deliberately hid evidence from the investigation into that disaster. Honestly, Larry Inman is behaving like the typical Republican. We’ll have to wait and see if Lee Chatfield can manage to muster up the votes to expel him.