This Week in Statehouse Action: The Cruelest Policies edition

... breeding Laws out of the dead statehouse, mixing Legislation and my ire

Can you believe April is more than halfway over?

Honestly, I long ago gave up on time meaning a damn thing or feeling the least bit linear, but I have two Effin’ Birds calendars and a GCal full of meetings and reminders that force me to deal with mundane concepts like “days” and “weeks,” which is why I know that there’s less of The Cruelest Month ahead of us than behind.

Speaking of cruelty …

Special elections have been super not nice to Republicans lately.

• Last week in this(ish) space, I mentioned two upcoming special elections in Michigan.

… okay, yes, last week, they were upcoming. This week, they’re a few days behind us.

And they went pretty much as everyone expected, except actually they went even better than expected.

• The two Michigan House seats opened up by Dems who’d won election to other offices last November took that chamber’s margin from 56 D/54 R to 54 D/54 R for a few months.

  • Republicans capitalized on this situation by spending a few months slowing down Democrats’ legislative …