(Well, strictly speaking, to the Michigan Senate and its majority leader, Mike Shirkey, whose appearance is hardly reassuring.)
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Dear Senator Shirkey,
I read with some alarm your subordinate’s statement to the effect that Michigan law doesn’t allow the legislature to overturn the popular vote in an election. That statement misses the point.
Michigan law also does not allow election cheating. There is public testimony, soon to be legal evidence, of mass-scale cheating in Michigan. As a lawmaker, you should regard election tampering as bad faith or incompetence in the Executive branch. You ought to be indignant they put you up this tree with no safe way down.
Your authority to correct this situation doesn’t come from Michigan law. It comes from the Constitution. If your Executive failed to run a believable election, then they, not you, have broken Michigan law. Unless cheating is “prescribed in [Michigan] by the Legislature”, your Executive also violated the Constitution. That gives you the power to act. Don’t pretend you don’t have it; eighty million Americans know.
If, through cowardice or conscience, you cannot overturn the result, you have an Historical duty to nullify it. Send no electors.
You must be under intense personal pressure from the Left. I offer my sincere sympathy for the anxiety and fear you must be experiencing. But the only way you’ll ever be safe from those people is to keep them out of power. Defy them, and they may destroy you in their rage. Appease them, and they’ll destroy you for the fun of it, as soon as they get around to it. And then there’s the question of whether you want to be friends or enemies with eighty million Trump voters.
Be brave. Be grateful you have a hill to die on. Most people don’t get that honor.
Do the right thing, and God Bless You.
In Peace and Liberty,
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Snail mail is a very effective way of getting your message to a politician. It means you care. All Michigan State Senators receive their mail at the same PO box, which is very obliging of them. You can reach any or all at:
P.O. Box 30036
Lansing, MI 48909-7536
The Republican Senators’ names (they like to be addressed by name):
Mike Shirkey, Majority Leader
Barrett, Tom
Bizon, John Dr.
Bumstead, Jon
Daley, Kevin
Horn, Ken
Johnson, Ruth
LaSata, Kim
Lauwers, Dan
Lucido, Pete
MacDonald, Michael
MacGregor, Peter
McBroom, Ed
Nesbitt, Aric
Outman, Rick
Runestad, Jim
Schmidt, Wayne A
Stamas, Jim
Theis, Lana
VanderWall, Curt
Victory, Roger
Zorn, Dale
For God’s sake, do not be impolite. We want to give these people a sane side of the tree to climb down on.