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<div class="mag-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px; position: relative; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Cabin, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h3 class="magcat-titlte entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; letter-spacing: 1px;"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2019/11/dhs-created-a-fake-university-near-detroit-as-part-of-a-sting-operation-targeting-foreign-students-and-around-250-have-been-arrested-so-far/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer; display: block; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.4;">DHS created a fake university near Detroit as part of a sting operation targeting foreign students — and around 250 have been arrested so far</a></h3><div class="grid-post-box-meta mag-meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 7px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px;"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/author/alex-henderson/" title="Posts by Alex Henderson" class="author url fn" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer; font-size: inherit;">Alex Henderson</a></div></div><div class="mag-excerpt entry-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Cabin, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Complaints from immigrant groups about the U.S. Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) didn’t start with President Donald Trump: there were plenty of deportations under former President Barack Obama,…</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div></div><div></div><div>oh the humanity!</div><div>
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</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Lansing — A Midland neighbor of Attorney General Bill Schuette says an unruly crowd of protesters trespassed on Schuette’s lawn, banged on the doors and littered the property during a Wednesday demonstration that had to be broken up by police.</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><p class="speakable-p-2 p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: small; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">Amy Ieuter, who has lived next door to Bill and Cynthia Schuette for nine years, said about 40 people marched around the Schuettes’ lawn early Wednesday afternoon, throwing toilet paper in the trees,leaving fake headstones in the grass and hanging signs from the trees.<p class="p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: small; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">“The people were adamant that they weren’t going to leave the yard,” Ieuter said Thursday, confirming Cynthia Schuette’s account. “Very clearly they trespassed throughout the entire yard, and they were, yes, banging on the doors.”<p class="p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: small; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">At least one protester claimed demonstrators didn’t bang on the doors or windows.<p class="p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: small; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a data-track-label="inline|intext|n/a" href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2016/07/06/schuette-thugs-attack-midland-home/86778534/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Cynthia Schuette was inside the home </a>when the demonstration began. The Attorney General’s office called the protesters “thugs” who were trying to intimidate Bill Schuette while his wife was alone.<p class="p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: small; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Michigan Coalition Against Tar Sands and the radical environmental group Earth First!organized the demonstration. It appears they came prepared to make a statement against the Line 5 oil pipelines in the Straits of Mackinac — an issue in which <a data-track-label="inline|intext|n/a" href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2016/06/16/calls-impartial-study-mackinac-pipelines-mount/86016286/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Schuette is involved</a>.<p class="p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: small; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">Another Schuette neighbor took a photo of a woman using climbing ropes to hang a large banner from two tall trees in the front lawn that read “No Line 5! Pipelines = Ecogenocide.”<p class="p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: small; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Somehow I doubt folks just happen to drive around with this equipment in their trunk, just in case. Cased the house?” Schuette aide John Sellek asked Thursday on his personal <a data-track-label="inline|intext|n/a" href="https://twitter.com/johnsellek/status/751148312041062401" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">Twitter</a> page.<p class="p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: small; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">Midland police officers were called to the Schuettes’ home around 1:30 p.m. and found people all over the lawn and evidence of chocolate sauce tossed on the beige brick home and water balloonsthrown at the house, interim Lt. Michael Sokol said Thursday.<cta-atoms-container-inline style="font-size: small; display: block; margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">“The house at that time was surrounded. People were in the back yard and front yard,” Sokol told The Detroit News.Police officers observed protesters banging on the front door and ground-level windows of Schuette’s house, Sokol said.“Once we arrived, they stopped,” Sokol said.After speaking with Cynthia Schuette, Sokol said police dispersed the crowd to the street, where the demonstration continued for a few more minutes until more officers arrived from the Midland County Sheriff’s Department and state police.“It was their right to stand there; they were on city property,” he said. “I think they accomplished what they wanted to.”Chocolate sauce also was dumped on the driveway in what protesters said was supposed to represent an oil spill. Television crews later filmed workers washing off the driveway.Because of their schedules, Midland officers who responded to the disturbance won’t have their report completed until early next week, Sokol said.The Schuettes have not said whether they want the Midland police to pursue charges for trespassing and littering, he said.“There’s no actual damage done,” Sokol said.State police troopers guarded the Schuette’s house overnight Wednesday, and the city police took over Thursday morning, Sellek said.Bill Schuette was out-of-state Wednesday at a conference at the time, according to his office.“Bill and Cynthia Schuette have focused on taking care of each other first and in time will review what happened and if further action is desired,” Sellek said Thursday in a statement.Ieuter said Cynthia Schuette appeared “a little rattled” by the surprise protest on a dead-end street in a quiet neighborhood.“She handled herself very calm, cool and collected, and she knows that these people are just wasting their time,” Ieuter said. “The Schuettes are very neighborly, polite people, and they did not deserve this in any way shape or form.”The groups that organized the protest said in a statement Wednesday they demonstrated at Schuette’s home to pressure him to shut down Line 5.The protest generated bipartisan condemnation.“The private property & families of elected officials should be off limits. This is over the line of legit protest,” Michigan Democratic Party chairman Brandon Dillon <a data-track-label="inline|intext|n/a" href="https://twitter.com/BrandonDillon75/status/750885583778566148" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">said on Twitter</a>.An activist who identified himself as Dan Ayler on Wednesday said that none of the protesters had banged on windows or doors at the Schuette home.“I find it disturbing the attorney general is going to lie about what people were doing,” the man told The Detroit News.But on Thursday, The News sought follow-up comment from Ayler but couldn’t re-establish contact or confirm his identity.The phone number the man used to call a reporter is associated with Duncan Tarr, an activist with Michigan Coalition Against Tar Sands who has had <a data-track-label="inline|intext|n/a" href="http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/2015/03/27/student-charged-protest-scuffle/70555134/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">past run-ins with the law</a>.In January 2015, Tarr was sentenced to one year of probation for locking his neck to an oil pipeline contractor’s truck with a bicycle lock during an August 2014 protest in Oxford of Enbridge’s Line 6B oil pipeline, the <a data-track-label="inline|intext|n/a" href="http://www.dailytribune.com/article/DT/20150127/NEWS/150129647" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Oakland Press reported</a>.Staff Writer Jonathan Oostring contributed.<div>
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<div>2016 recount</div><div> I am filing suit to stop @DrJillStein's frivolous, expensive recount request," Bill Schuette, a Republican, wrote on Twitter.The state's top law enforcement official said that he had "filed an emergency motion with the Mich Supreme Court to bypass the Court of Appeals to ensure a timely process."Schuette's office later put out a statement explaining the motion."Michigan voters rejected Stein's candidacy by massive margins but her refusal to accept that state-verified result poses an expensive and risky threat to hard-working taxpayers and abuses the intent of Michigan law," Schuette said. "We have asked the court to end the recount which Stein is pursuing in violation of Michigan laws that protect the integrity of our elections. It is inexcusable for Stein to put Michigan voters at risk of paying millions and potentially losing their voice in the Electoral College in the process."Stein had filed a request last week for a recount of Michigan's vote in the 2016 election after a razor-thin margin made the state the last to be called. President-elect Donald Trump ended up winning Michigan's 16 electoral votes by just 0.2 percentage points, or just under 10,000 votes out of over 5.5 million cast.Stein is also fighting efforts to halt the recount in Wisconsin as well, where Trump supporters have also tried to stop the recount in progress there."The Jill Stein Campaign plans to intervene and join the Wisconsin Elections Commission in defending the recount," Stein's attorney Matthew D. Brinckerhoff said in an emailed statement. "Citizens in Wisconsin and across the country have made it clear that they want a recount and deserve to see this process through to ensure integrity in the vote."Stein defended her decision to request a recount in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania -- three traditionally blue swing states that proved critical to Trump's upset victory -- in an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper."What we have are predictors that if tampering took place, it would be most likely to be discovered in the three states where we are looking," she said on "Anderson Cooper 360." "Unless we actually look, we would never know," she said."But without having the evidence, aren't you actually contributing, perhaps unfairly, to that lack of confidence in the system itself?" Cooper asked Stein."What the voting technology experts tell us is that you cannot tell unless you're actually counting paper votes," she said. "And I don't think the FBI has done that."<div> https://movetoamend.org/corporate-rule-examples-5Other recent news reveals that the lead investigator into Flint’s water crisis, appointed by the State Attorney General, is none other than a $10,000 donor to AG Bill Schuette’s campaign coffers.<a href="https://movetoamend.org/corporate-rule-examples-5#4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">4</a> The appointee, Todd Flood is an attorney with Flood Law and a former Detroit/Wayne County assistant prosecutor. Could this possibly be a return on Flood’s generous campaign donation?  His “electoral free speech” at work?The story of Flint is yet another wake-up call from our American nightmare brought to us by illegitimate corporate power. In this so-called “self-governing” country we’re realizing that “democracy” is largely charade, a drama written largely by corporate authors and acted out by corporate puppets on the people’s stage.<a href="https://movetoamend.org/corporate-rule-examples-5#5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">5</a>Move to Amend invites all those who have awakened from this bad dream to join in engaging the work of building real self-governance through commitments to solidarity and deep grassroots organizing.Sources:<ol style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em 40px; padding: 0px; line-height: 16.26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" images="images" star-gray.png="star-gray.png"><a href="https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=President+Obama%2C+Please+Come+to+Flint" name="1" id="1" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=President+Obama%2C+Please+Come+to+Flint</a></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" images="images" star-gray.png="star-gray.png"><a href="http://www.freep.com/story/opinion/contributors/2016/01/18/legislature-should-repeal-emergency-manager-law/78974808/" name="2" id="2" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.freep.com/story/opinion/contributors/2016/01/18/legislature-should-repeal-emergency-manager-law/78974808/</a></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" images="images" star-gray.png="star-gray.png"><a href="http://motorcitymuckraker.com/2016/01/23/gov-snyder-lied-flint-water-switch-was-not-about-money-records-show/" name="3" id="3" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">http://motorcitymuckraker.com/2016/01/23/gov-snyder-lied-flint-water-switch-was-not-about-money-records-show/</a></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" images="images" star-gray.png="star-gray.png"><a href="http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2016/01/republican_donor_appointed_by.html" name="4" id="4" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2016/01/republican_donor_appointed_by.html</a></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" images="images" star-gray.png="star-gray.png"><a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/flints_water_crisis_is_a_warning_to_us_all_20160127" name="5" id="5" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/flints_water_crisis_is_a_warning_to_us_all_20160127</a> </li></ol></div><div>==
That Friday, 150 protesters traveled to Lansing and stormed Snyder's

office, calling for his resignation and criminal prosecution. (Snyder

did not respond to requests for comment on this story.) The same

afternoon, Michigan State Attorney General Bill Schuette, a Republican

crony of Snyder's, announced he was launching an investigation into the

water crisis. "The purpose of the investigation is to determine what, if

any, Michigan laws were violated in the process that resulted in the

contamination crisis," Schuette said in a press release.

His announcement was met with rolled eyes from Flint citizens.

Schuette's response was likely a reaction to the announcement the

previous week that the United States attorney for the Eastern District

of Michigan was working with the EPA on a Flint investigation. (The feds

provided no details of the scope of their probe.) Way back in

September, state Rep. Sheldon Neeley had asked Schuette to get involved

and start an investigation. Schuette didn't get back to him until

shortly before Christmas, saying there were plenty of folks already

looking into the Flint water crisis. Schuette only reversed course as

pressure mounted and his political future came into question.

"Without fear or favor, I will carry out my responsibility to enforce

the laws meant to protect Michigan families and represent the citizens

of Flint," he said.

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</div><div>Republican nominee for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_Michigan" title="Governor of Michigan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Governor of Michigan</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_gubernatorial_election,2018" class="mw-redirect" title="Michigan gubernatorial election, 2018" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">2018 gubernatorial election</a> but lost to Democrat Gretchen Whitmer.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Schuette#cite_note-ourmidland.com-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></div><div>
</div><div>Schuette was widely believed to be planning to run for governor of Michigan.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Schuette#cite_note-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[26]</a> In July 2016, before speaking on the opening day of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Republican_National_Convention" title="2016 Republican National Convention" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">2016 Republican National Convention</a>Schuette changed the name of his fundraising committee from "Bill Schuette for Attorney General" to "Bill Schuette for Michigan." Despite being ineligible for a further term as Attorney General due to term-limits, Schuette had continued to raise funds<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Schuette#cite_note-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[27]</a> since his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Attorney_General_election,2014" class="mw-redirect" title="Michigan Attorney General election, 2014" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">November 2014 re-election</a>.In December 2016, Schuette said he had not made up his mind on running for governor but would make a decision sometime in 2017.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Schuette#cite_note-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[28]</a> This is backed up by reports of a falling out between the Attorney General and Governor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Snyder" title="Rick Snyder" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Rick Snyder</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Schuette#cite_note-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[29]</a>On September 12, 2017, Schuette announced his campaign for governor in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midland,Michigan" title="Midland, Michigan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Midland, Michigan</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Schuette#cite_note-ourmidland.com-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a> On August 7, 2018, Schuette won the Republican nomination for Michigan governor.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Schuette#cite_note-30" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[30]</a> He then lost the November 6, 2018, general election to Democrat <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gretchen_Whitmer" title="Gretchen Whitmer" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Gretchen Whitmer</a>, a former Michigan senate leader, by a 9-point margin....<h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-family: " linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height">Controversy[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bill_Schuette&action=edit&section=6&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Controversy" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>On July 3, 2018, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingham_County,Michigan" title="Ingham County, Michigan" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Ingham County</a> prosecutor Carol Siemon requested a grand jury investigation (which was never conducted) to probe the sale of multimillion-dollar property inherited by Schuette in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Islands" title="Virgin Islands" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Virgin Islands</a>, to determine if any laws were violated. Schuette's spokesperson stated that the accusation was a "baseless attack on an attorney general with a strong ethical record".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Schuette#cite_note-41" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[41]</a>Schuette was working to strike down a ballot initiative to eliminate partisan gerrymandering, which has gained enough signatures to be on the Michigan ballot in the November 2018 election.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Schuette#cite_note-nytimes.com-42" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[42]</a> The issue went on to the state supreme court, where "Five of the seven justices were nominated or appointed by Republicans, and two of those have received financial backing from the Michigan Chamber of Commerce, which also happens to be one of the main funders of the opposition campaign. Both justices have refused to recuse themselves from the case."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Schuette#cite_note-nytimes.com-42" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[42]</a> The court upheld the inclusion of the initiative on the ballot which was approved by voters.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Schuette#cite_note-43" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[43]</a></div><div>
</div><div>William Duncan "Bill" Schuette (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English" title="Help:IPA for English" style="background: none; text-decoration: none !important;">/ˈʃuːtiː/</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Wikipedia:Pronunciation respelling key" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">shoo-tee</a>;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Schuette#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a> born October 13, 1953) is an American Republican politician and the<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Attorney_General" title="Michigan Attorney General" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Attorney General</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan" title="Michigan" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Michigan</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Schuette#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;">
</div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Schuette#Early_life" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1Early life</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Schuette#2010_election" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">22010 election</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Schuette#Political_career" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3Political career</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Schuette#Gubernatorial_ambitions" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4Gubernatorial ambitions</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Schuette#References" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">5References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Schuette#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">6External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: rgb(255, 255, 255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Early life</h2>Schuette was born in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midland,Michigan" title="Midland, Michigan" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Midland, Michigan</a>, where he graduated from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Henry_Dow_High_School" title="Herbert Henry Dow High School" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Herbert Henry Dow High School</a> in 1972. He attended <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown_University" title="Georgetown University" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Georgetown University</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,D.C." title="Washington, D.C." style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Washington, D.C.</a> and in 1976 graduated cum laude with a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_Science" title="Bachelor of Science" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Bachelor of Science</a> degree in the Foreign Service. He also studied at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Aberdeen" title="University of Aberdeen" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">University of Aberdeen</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Scotland</a> and received a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juris_Doctor" title="Juris Doctor" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">J.D.</a> from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_San_Francisco_School_of_Law" title="University of San Francisco School of Law" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">University of San Francisco School of Law</a> in 1979. Schuette was admitted to the Michigan <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar(law)" title="Bar (law)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">bar</a> in 1981.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Schuette#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: rgb(255, 255, 255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">2010 election[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bill_Schuette&action=edit&section=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: 2010 election" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>Schuette was elected Attorney General in 2010. Schuette received 53% of the vote to 41% for longtime Democratic prosecutor David Leyton.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Schuette#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: rgb(255, 255, 255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Political career[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bill_Schuette&action=edit&section=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Political career" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>Schuette was a delegate to the Michigan Republican conventions in 1972, 1974, and 1982.In November 1984, at the age of 31, Schuette defeated incumbent <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Democrat</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_J.Albosta" title="Donald J. Albosta" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Donald J. Albosta</a> for a seat in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">United States House of Representatives</a> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan%27s_10th_congressional_district" title="Michigan's 10th congressional district" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Michigan's 10th congressional district</a>. Schuette was re-elected to the two succeeding Congresses, serving from January 3, 1985 until January 3, 1991. He did not seek re-election in 1990, but unsuccessfully challenged incumbent Democrat <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Levin" title="Carl Levin" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Carl Levin</a> for his seat in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">United States Senate</a>. While in Congress, Schuette served on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_the_Budget" title="United States House Committee on the Budget" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">House Budget Committee</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Agriculture" title="United States House Committee on Agriculture" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">House Agriculture Committee</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Select_Committee_on_Aging" title="United States House Select Committee on Aging" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">House Select Committee on Aging</a>.In January 1991, Schuette was named by then-Governor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Engler" title="John Engler" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">John Engler</a> as the director of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Department_of_Agriculture" title="Michigan Department of Agriculture" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Michigan Department of Agriculture</a>, where he served until 1993. While director, Schuette and his wife Cynthia created the Michigan Harvest Gathering, a food and fund drive to help feed hungry people throughout the state.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>] Joining with the Food Bank Council of Michigan, the Michigan Harvest Gathering has raised more than $4 million and 6 million pounds of food over a 12-year period.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]In November 1994, he was elected to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Senate" title="Michigan Senate" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Michigan Senate</a> from the 35th District, where he served until 2003. In 2001, Schuette was selected by President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-size: auto;">George W. Bush</a> to be his personal representative to Australian-American Friendship Week in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia" title="Australia" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Australia</a>.In November 2002, he was elected a judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals. His term expired January 1, 2009.In 2008, Michigan voters considered a ballot initiative to establish a medical marijuana program for registered patients with qualifying conditions. Schuette served as a spokesperson for a group opposed to the proposed law.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Schuette#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a> After leaving the judiciary, Schuette worked for Warner, Norcross & Judd, one of Michigan's largest law firms[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>].On November 2, 2010, Schuette won the election to become Michigan Attorney General.In September 2011, petition language to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recall_election" title="Recall election" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-size: auto;">recall</a> Schuette was approved by Midland County authorities, allowing the circulating of recall petitions. Among the grievances cited are his attempts to undermine the medical marijuana law approved by voters in 2008.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Schuette#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-size: auto;">[6]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Schuette#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-size: auto;">[7]</a>In 2011, Schuette filed suit to close two Michigan abortion clinics on grounds of improper record disposal.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Schuette#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-size: auto;">[8]</a>Before the Supreme Court's 2015 decision in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obergefell_v.Hodges" title="Obergefell v. Hodges" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-size: auto;">Obergefell v. Hodges</a>, Schuette fought against <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage" title="Same-sex marriage" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-size: auto;">same-sex marriage</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Schuette#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-size: auto;">[9]</a>On August 19, 2015, Schuette endorsed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeb_Bush" title="Jeb Bush" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-size: auto;">Jeb Bush</a> for president.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Schuette#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-size: auto;">[10]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: rgb(255, 255, 255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Gubernatorial ambitions[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bill_Schuette&action=edit&section=4&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Gubernatorial ambitions" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>Schuette is widely believed to be eying Michigan's Governor Mansion.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Schuette#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[11]</a> This seems to be backed up by reports of a falling out between the Attorney General and Governor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Snyder" title="Rick Snyder" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Rick Snyder</a>.</div><div>=<a href="http://www.alternet.org/environment/mayor-bloomberg-defending-obama-goes-after-state-attorneys-general-protecting-polluters" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">http://www.alternet.org/environment/mayor-bloomberg-defending-obama-goes-after-state-attorneys-general-protecting-polluters</a>Michael Bloomberg has not been shy about using his vast personal wealth (estimated at $40.9 billion) on <a href="http://nypost.com/2015/11/29/mike-bloomberg-has-spent-72m-on-campaigns-won-67-of-races/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">political spending</a> [3]. Last year the former New York City mayor announced plans to spend $50 million building a national grassroots movement to curb gun violence. It's a significant amount, especially considering the fact that the National Rifle Association spends only <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/16/us/bloomberg-plans-a-50-million-challenge-to-the-nra.html" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">$20 million</a> [4] on political activities each year.Now the perennial putative presidential candidate has set his sights on a new target: carbon emissions. Last month, he <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/07/us/politics/michael-bloomberg-state-attorneys-general-carbon-emissions.html?r=0" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">announced his plans</a> [5] to run a series of political television ads attacking the attorneys general of four states — Florida, Michigan, Missouri and Wisconsin — who are suing the Obama administration over new regulations aimed at <a href="http://www2.epa.gov/cleanpowerplan/clean-power-plan-existing-power-plants" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">reducing emissions</a> [6] from power plants. The attorneys general claim the rules will drive up energy costs and destroy coal industry jobs. Notably, the four states have been presidential battlegrounds.
Two of the Bloomberg ads describe the attorneys general as bending to special interests and taking donations from “polluters.” The ad airing in Michigan accuses Attorney General Bill Schuette of “putting polluters and his campaign contributors <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/07/us/politics/michael-bloomberg-state-attorneys-general-carbon-emissions.html?r=0" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">ahead</a> [5] of protecting Michigan families.” The Florida ad describes Pam Bondi, a Republican, as “an attorney general for polluters, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/07/us/politics/michael-bloomberg-state-attorneys-general-carbon-emissions.html?r=0" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">not for us</a> [5].”“These four attorneys general are trying to stop the president from doing something that I think is terribly important,” Bloomberg <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/07/us/politics/michael-bloomberg-state-attorneys-general-carbon-emissions.html?r=0" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">told</a> [5] the New York Times. “I want the public to know what they’re doing.”The regulations, part of the EPA’s <a href="http://www2.epa.gov/cleanpowerplan" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Clean Power Plan</a> [7] (CPP), which was introduced in August, are a central element of Obama’s <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/image/president27sclimateactionplan.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Climate Action Plan</a> [8], which aims to fulfill the president’s 2009 pledge to reduce the nation’s overall greenhouse gas emissions <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/image/president27sclimateactionplan.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">17 percent</a> [8] below 2005 levels by 2020. To meet that goal, the CPP sets state-by-state targets to cut carbon emissions from the energy sector <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/climate-change" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">32 percent</a> [9] from 2005 levels by 2030.The White House asserts that by setting the goals of CPP and allowing states to create tailored plans to meet them, there will be huge benefits for public health, the national economy and savings for average Americans. Specifically, the White House says it will create tens of thousands of jobs, lower the costs of renewable energy and save consumers $155 billion between 2020 and 2030. The CPP will also:<ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-left: 0.5in;">Prevent up to 3,600 premature deaths</li><li style="margin-left: 0.5in;">Prevent 1,700 non-fatal heart attacks</li><li style="margin-left: 0.5in;">Prevent 90,000 asthma attacks in children</li><li style="margin-left: 0.5in;">Prevent 300,000 missed workdays and school days</li><li style="margin-left: 0.5in;">Save Americans nearly $85 a year on energy bills</li><li style="margin-left: 0.5in;">Save enough energy to power 30 million homes</li><li style="margin-left: 0.5in;">Lead to 30 percent more renewable energy generation</li></ul>Still, the CPP has met with fierce, primarily Republican opposition, with conservative critics saying it represents an unconstitutional federal overreach, will drive up energy bills and reduce the electric grid’s reliability. The EPA has firmly dismissed these claims. Janet McCabe, acting assistant administrator of the agency’s Office of Air and Radiation, said the plan is “based on a sound legal and technical foundation," adding that it "really puts states in the <a href="http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/10/23/mess-of-lawsuits-set-to-challenge-clean-power-plan" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">driver's seat</a> [10]."The four attorneys general who are the targets of Bloomberg's ads are fighting back. According to the New York Times, Wisconsin Attorney General Brad D. Schimel said in an email statement that Bloomberg is an “out-of-touch billionaire.” And in a statement, Florida attorney general Pam Bondi described Bloomberg as a “<a href="http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2015/11/bloomberg-airs-tv-ads-blasting-pam-bondi-for-siding-with-polluters-against-clean-power-plan.html" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">billionaire bully</a> [11]”:<blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Florida has a great and conscientious track record of improving its air quality and protecting its environment … Now a billionaire bully is attacking Florida, and 26 other states, for having the audacity of defending their citizens against the EPA’s heavy-handed and unlawful regulations. This bully wants to defend the federal government; we want to protect the people we serve.</blockquote>In her <a href="http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2015/10/florida-among-23-states-suing-over-epa-carbon-emissions-rule.html" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">announcement</a> [12] about the lawsuit, Bondi claimed the EPA rule sets an "unrealistic" timeframe to cut carbon emissions by 2030 and would "require the use of costly and unproven technologies."
Twenty states are challenging the EPA rule in addition to the four targeted by Bloomberg: West Virginia, Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming, the Arizona Corporation Commission, and the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality.Environmental concerns are not new for Bloomberg. During his tenure as mayor of New York, 2002 to 2013, he became known as one of the most environmentally minded big city mayors in the country, introducing in 2007 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlaNYC" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">PLaNYC</a> [13], an aggressive program to overhaul the city’s environmental sustainability by 2030 that tackled 10 specific areas: housing and neighborhoods, parks and public spaces, brownfields, waterways, water supply, transportation, energy, air quality, solid waste, and climate change. According to <a href="http://www.nyc.gov/portal/site/nycgov/menuitem.c0935b9a57bb4ef3daf2f1c701c789a0/index.jsp?pageID=mayor_press_release&catID=1194&doc_name=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nyc.gov%2Fhtml%2Fom%2Fhtml%2F2011a%2Fpr129-11.html&cc=unused1978&rc=1194&ndi=1" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">NYC.gov</a> [14], “Over 97% of the 127 initiatives in PlaNYC were launched within one year of its release and almost two-thirds of its 2009 milestones were achieved or mostly achieved.”A main benefactor of the Sierra Club's <a href="http://content.sierraclub.org/coal/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Beyond Coal</a> [15] campaign, Bloomberg has been a longtime opponent of coal, characterizing it as a naturally dying industry. In an August op-ed, he <a href="http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-08-04/obama-didn-t-kill-coal-the-market-did" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">wrote</a> [16]:<blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The overblown political rhetoric about the plan tends to obscure the market reality that the coal industry has been in steady decline for a decade, partly as a result of the natural gas boom, but mostly because consumers are demanding cleaner air and action on climate change … King Coal is dying of natural causes: Market forces, technological advances, and public demands for clean air and climate action have combined to make alternative sources of energy more financially attractive. The price of new wind power, for example, is lower than that of coal in most parts of the country.</blockquote>Maggie Haberman of the New York Times said that Bloomberg’s new ads “amount to a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/07/us/politics/michael-bloomberg-state-attorneys-general-carbon-emissions.html?r=0" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">defense</a> [5] of the White House over its Clean Power Plan.”Whether this defense will work remains to be seen. But one thing is for certain: Coal is on the decline and fewer Americans are dying because of it. “A decade ago, coal pollution was killing 13,000 people a year,” Bloomberg wrote in his op-ed. “Today, the number is down to 7,500, which means that more than 5,000 Americans are living longer, healthier lives each year thanks to <a href="http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-08-04/obama-didn-t-kill-coal-the-market-did" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">cleaner power</a> [16].”<div class="bio-new body_environment" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="author-bio">Reynard Loki is AlterNet's environment and food editor. Follow him on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/reynardloki" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">@reynardloki</a> [17]. Email him at <a href="mailto:reynard@alternet.org" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">reynard@alternet.org</a> [18].</div></div></div><div></div></div></div></div>