MARCH OF THE LEMMINGS
- Downtown Newsmagazine
- Dec 29, 2020
- 1 min read
The attempted autocratic coup by President Donald Trump to overturn the results of the November election, aided by the Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s last gasp effort with a lawsuit charge at the Republican-dominated U.S. Supreme Court to throw out the November vote results from four states, including Michigan, drew the backing of a number of GOP members of our state’s Congressional delegation and some Republican state Representatives from Oakland County. Signing onto the legal action were Michigan’s U.S. House members Jack Bergman (District 1/Watersmeet), Bill Huizenga (District 2/Zeeland), John Moolenar (District 4/Midland) and Tim Walberg (District 7/Tipton). Fifteen state lawmakers also asked to join the lawsuit, which the Supremes rejected in a one-page unsigned opinion. Among them, John Reilly of Oakland Township and Matt (Mad Dog) Maddock from Milford. Maddock, according to some reports, took it one step further by joining a group that tried (but failed) to enter the Capitol as an “alternate” slate to give the state to Trump during Electoral College voting in mid-December. #sedition or #votersmustremember.