Senator Rick Jones Personifies Everything Wrong In Government

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Our Buddy Rick Jones has gained international attention. This was posted on the Anonymous website. They have apparently confused State and National government, but they hit the nail on the head describing Jones.

 

Senator Rick Jones Personifies Everything Wrong In Government

 

Note: This is an opinion piece of our author righteous und does not represent the views of AnonHQ.com as we are obliged to stay objective.

 

Senator Rick Jones was involved in an incident the other week which personifies the struggle of Washington, politics in general, and why so many people feel a disconnect from government. In the video below, a former U.S. Army infantryman is testifying over how medical marijuana has helped save his life. Before the man can even engage in conversation about the topic, he is literally cut off and kicked out of the building under the orders of Senator Rick Jones.

 

The arrogance and thick-headedness of Senator Rick Jones, demonstrates how the government of the United States has become dysfunctional/unproductive. Most of our elected leaders are simply smug politicians who have already made up their mind. Politicians believe that their opinions are what got them elected in the first place, making it to the Senate level no one is ever going change that opinion. No average citizen will ever change their minds because all the citizens are beneath them.

 

Was the man wrong for making that comment about police officers? Yes, he was. And this is inappropriate. However, even after an apology and regroup, the hubris of Rick Jones did not allow the man to speak. If the United States Senate will not even listen to a former U.S. Army veteran in a scheduled meeting in their home state, when will the Senate listen? The truth of the matter is, in the eyes of government, it does not matter who you are. People like Rick Jones do not care. He is in government and you are not, he is big and you are small, he can squash you like a bug. The hubris of our elected officials, such as Rick Jones, shows exactly why this is one of the most unproductive Congresses in United States history.

 

Contact Rick Jones

Office Address:

915 Farnum Building

Lansing, MI 48909-7536

Telephone: (517) 373-3447

Email: SenRJones@senate.michigan.gov.

Edited December 31, 2015 by Wild Bill

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We (Michigan) sure can pick em;

 

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Michigan gets F grade in 2015 State Integrity Investigation

An honor system with no honor

By Chad Selweski     12:01 am, November 9, 2015  Updated:  11:55 am, November 12, 2015

 

 

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The State Integrity Investigation is a comprehensive assessment of state government accountability and transparency done in partnership with Global Integrity.

In November 2013, Michigan lawmakers revealed the lengths to which they’d go to maintain the state’s secret system of funding election campaign activities.

A Senate committee was meeting in the Capitol to discuss and approve a bill that would double the maximum amount that individuals could contribute to legislative, executive and judicial candidates. The senators were told that the higher limits were unnecessary because 99 percent of Michiganians never give the maximum amount.

Then something puzzling happened. In a rare move, the legislators called a recess midway through the session. A lobbyist in the audience who was friendly with the committee chairman, it was later learned, received an urgent phone call warning that Secretary of State Ruth Johnson had just announced new administrative rules requiring the disclosure of campaign donors in all circumstances.

When the committee reconvened, an amendment was hastily attached to the legislation, which would override Johnson’s decision and preserve Michigan’s “dark money” campaign practices. House and Senate approval of the bill soon followed, as did Gov. Rick Snyder’s signature.

“We don’t have full public disclosure and it’s not because good people failed to do the right thing, it’s because those gentlemen did the wrong thing. It was a hostile action,” said Rich Robinson, the state’s top campaign watchdog at the nonpartisan Michigan Campaign Finance Network. “And the fruits of those actions were tens of millions of dollars of undisclosed campaign cash.”  

The shadowy aspects of Michigan’s money-driven politics serve as a key reason why the state ranks last among the 50 states with a grade of F and a numerical score of 51 out of 100 from the State Integrity Investigation, a data-driven assessment of state government transparency and accountability by the Center for Public Integrity and Global Integrity. Michigan received an F in 10 of the 13 categories of government operations that were examined.

The first State Integrity report, released in 2012, gave Michigan a similar score – 58, an F, though the state ranked 44th that time. The two scores are not directly comparable, however, due to changes made to improve and update the project and its methodology.

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Michigan

GRADE:F(51)

RANK:50TH

Assessing the systems in place to deter corruption in state government

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OUR METHODOLOGY

Public Access to Information

GRADE:F(34)

RANK: 42nd

Political Financing

GRADE:F(52)

RANK: 32nd

Electoral Oversight

GRADE:B-(81)

RANK: 5th

Executive Accountability

GRADE:F(27)

RANK: 50th

Legislative Accountability

GRADE:F(36)

RANK: 50th

Judicial Accountability

GRADE:F(30)

RANK: 50th

State Budget Processes

GRADE:B+(89)

RANK: 8th

State Civil Service Management

GRADE:F(56)

RANK: 37th

Procurement

GRADE:F(54)

RANK: 46th

Internal Auditing

GRADE:C+(79)

RANK: 32nd

Lobbying Disclosure

GRADE:F(51)

RANK: 43rd

Ethics Enforcement Agencies

GRADE:F(39)

RANK: 47th

State Pension Fund Management

GRADE:F(30)

RANK: 50th

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