[APG Public List] Online petition to save the Library of Michigan

[Craig Kilby]

My two cents. If the Michigan House does not overturn this by the end  
of this month, I'd fall back to a Plan B and I've a plaintiff(s) ready  
to court that morning requestion a court injunction on this action. I  
don't know a Governor just "executive order" an entire Department be  
eliminated. But, I don't know the Michigan Constitution. Budgetary  
actions like this are not her role to just wave a magic wand and  
"poof! go away!"

On Sep 8, 2009, at 5:50 PM, Amy Crow wrote:

> Please excuse me if this has already been posted here. I am behind  
> in catching up with my email while I was at the FGS conference in  
> Little Rock last week.
>
> As you may already be aware, Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm has  
> issued Executive Order 2009-36, abolishing the state's Department of  
> History, Arts, and Libraries. This will abolish the Library of  
> Michigan and disperse the collection.
>
> The Library of Michigan has one of the most respected genealogy and  
> family history collections in the country. The Records Preservation  
> and Access Committee, sponsored by the Federation of Genealogical  
> Societies and the National Genealogical Society, has started an  
> online petition urging the state legislature to overturn the  
> governor's executive order. The Michigan Senate has already voted to  
> overturn the order; the Michigan House of Representatives must  
> follow suit for it to be overturned. If not, the executive order  
> takes effect October 1, 2009.
>
> The online petition can be found at http://www.PetitionOnline.com/RPAC2009/petition.html 
>  You do not need to make your email address public and you do not  
> need to live in Michigan to sign it.
>
> More information about the issue can be found on the Michigan  
> Genealogical Council's website: http://www.mimgc.org/LOM.html
>
> I urge each of you to sign the petition. (If you already have, thank  
> you!) Also, please share this information with others.
>
> Sincerely,
> Amy Johnson Crow, CG,
> Reynoldsburg, Ohio
>
> _______________________________________________
> APG Public Mailing List
> http://apgen.org/publications/publiclist/

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: ../attachments/20090908/a7cd10d4/attachment.html