BRANDENBURG CONCERTOS Thursday, December 8 at 7:30Pm Few Works Are As Loved As These Concertos – Especially As Performed by This Remarkable Ensemble
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FREE a newspaper for the rest of us www.lansingcitypulse.com November 30-December 6, 2016 "Make No Apologies," by Kimberly Lavon. See page 10 for story. BRANDENBURG CONCERTOS Thursday, December 8 at 7:30pm Few works are as loved as these concertos – especially as performed by this remarkable ensemble. Experience Bach’s joyful, inspiring work at this festive time of the year! Media Sponsor WHARTONCENTER.COM • 1-800-WHARTON 2 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • November 30, 2016 Eden Glen Condominiums $45,000: 2 beds, 1.5 bath Down payment assistance available! 1725 Maisonette Dr., Lansing Work with CFH to submit a 1733 Maisonette Dr., Lansing City of Lansing Down Payment 6113 Scotmar Dr., Lansing Assistance Application. $49,500: 3 beds, 1.5 bath Cannot make over 80% Area 6117 Scotmar Dr., Lansing Median Income*. 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And every dollar you give stays right here to help ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER • Mickey Hirten [email protected] it’s a gift you can give — by donating to the folks in our own community. Hirten: It’s not too late to capitalize on pot in the Capital City ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR • Ty Forquer Greater Lansing Food Bank. Today I ask you to join City Pulse in fight- [email protected] • (517) 999-5068 In 2015, thanks to caring people of all ing hunger. You can use the donation enve- PAGE PRODUCTION MANAGER • Allison Hammerly ages and means, the GLFB was able to lope inside today's paper, or donate online [email protected] • (517) 999-5066 provide more than 5 million meals to those at greaterlansingfoodbank.org. Any amount 9 STAFF WRITERS • Lawrence Cosentino who didn’t know where their next meal was you can give will be the best gift ever. [email protected] Todd Heywood coming from. Thank you. [email protected] This is one of those rare opportunities to —Berl Schwartz Jamie-Sue Seal releases first album in 12 years ADVERTISING really make a difference. Because, thanks to Publisher SALES & MARKETING DIRECTOR • Rich Tupica PAGE [email protected]:30 a.m. Saturdays tative. While the seats should be split with SALES EXECUTIVES • Mandy Jackson, Liza Sayre, The House of Unrepresentatives 10 Suzi Smith Once again, as a result of the November 55 going to each party, the results are that [email protected] 8 election, Michigan’s House of Representa- Republicans will hold 63 seats compared [email protected] tives will not be representative. to 47 for Democrats due to gerrymander- Kimberly Lavon hosts all-female exhibition for Arts Night Out [email protected] What does it take to make a legislative ing of legislative districts. Further, only 29 Contributors: Andy Balaskovitz, Justin Bilicki, seats (26 percent) will be held by females. Daniel E. Bollman,$ Capital News$ Service, Bill body representative? John Adams held PAGE Castanier, Mary C. Cusack, Tom Helma, Gabrielle that the legislative branch “should be in Thus, Republicans get 57% of the seats Lawrence$ Johnson, Eve Kucharski, Terry Link, Andy miniature an exact portrait of the people at while getting 49 percent of the vote while McGlashen, Kyle Melinn, Mark Nixon, Shawn Parker, 11 Stefanie Pohl, Dennis Preston, Allan I. Ross, Rich large. It should think, feel, reason and act Democrats get only 43% of the seats while receiving on the same vote. CrowdsourcingTupica, Ute Von Der Heyden, Paul Wozniak like them.” That is a reasonable definition Obviously gerrymandering is not a good Delivery drivers: Frank Estrada, Dave Fisher, Paul Shore, of “representative.” Common Ground announces first headliner, shorterA festivalGUIDERichard TO L Simpson,ANSING-AREA Thomas Scott ONLINE Jr. FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGNS What should Michigan’s House of repre- thing for representative government regard- Intern: Tejas Soni sentatives look like if it were to conform to less which party does the deed. Gerryman- Adams’ definition? My analysis of the 2016 dering has got to go! CITY PULSE Editor & Publisher What’s to be done? The citizens of the on the Berl General Election results shows that the Schwartz voters were evenly split between Republi- state should demand a legislature that is AIR cans and Democrats candidates in races for representative of the people. This can be best Now airing on House seats. Presidential voting was also accomplished via an amendment to the state constitution specifying two requirements: 10:30 a.m. Saturdays evenly split. Also, population statistics show 89 FM that Michigan’s population is 51% female (1) A legislature in which the voting power of and 49% male. Hence, to meet Adams’ the membership is divided amongst parties standard, one can expect a legislature to be in proportion to votes received in the general one-half Republican and one-half Democrat election; and (2) a membership split between and roughly 50-50 female and male. males and females in proportion to their oc- What are the facts? My analysis further currence in the population. shows that the House will not be represen- A constitutional amendment need not spell out the nuts and bolts of the details of such a system of elections. If the amend- ment were to specify that the system of elections is to be established by statute, the legislature and governor would be obligated to work out the details. There are a number of models by which the goal of a representa- tive legislature could be accomplished. Who might lead the effort to overturn the present system of elections that permits gerrymandering? Republicans? Not likely 40 since they benefit from the present setup. The Democratic party is the likely candidate if it would give up its dream of capturing control of state government by 2020 so it can impose its own version of gerrymandering. If the Democrats won’t step up to the plate in order to abolish gerrymandering, perhaps some civic minded group like the League of Women Voters or the Center For Michigan might. All we have to gain is a representative legislature. — Daniel R. Brown DeWitt City Pulse • November 30, 2016 www.lansingcitypulse.com 5 PULSE NEWS & OPINION Michigan House Speaker Andy Dillon in his 2010 bid for the Democratic nomina- Dark money rising tion for governor. Bernero won that pri- mary and went on to lose against Repub- Mayoral campaign already framed lican Rick Snyder. For her part, Wittrock is no stranger to OF THE WEEK by shadowy groups and hidden agendas the mayor either. She covered City Hall for Revisited City Pulse as well as MLive.com before do- A proxy war of secretive “citizen” groups did report last year that some developers ing political communications for the Senate has begun shaping a nascent 2017 Lansing in the city reported Bernero had directed Democrats. Earlier this year she was hired mayoral race. them to make donations to the organiza- by the liberal-issues advocacy issues group They want to unseat Virg Bernero, tion rather than to his selected Council can- Priorities Michigan, a 501(c)4 founded in expected to seek a fourth term, and have didates in 2014. Bernero has denied influ- part by the Michigan League for Public targeted the economic incentive programs encing the actions of the organization. Policy in 2014. Wittrock said her work with he’s promoted. No Secret Lansing Deals is fronted by Reform Lansing is completely independent One group, Reform Lansing, has a Vanguard Public Affairs’ president, T.J. from her work with Priorities Michigan. website, video and Facebook group assail- Bucholz. He too declined to identify his Despite calling for more transparency on ing the $90-million, 823-bed Sky- development deals between Lansing Vue apartment block on Michigan and large developers, Bucholz said Avenue. his group was focusing initially on the The other, No Secret Lansing “shenanigans” in Lansing but will also Deals, has raised concerns on its shine a light on such activities across Property: Cherry Hill kiosk, Lansing website and with its Facebook the state.