Progressive groups say they’re encouraged by victories in the races for governor, attorney general, and secretary of state, as well as in ballot initiatives to clean up elections and legalize marijuana. Katie Fahey with Voters Not Politicians, the anti-gerrymandering group behind Proposal 2, tells us more than two million people voted to create an independent redistricting commission in an attempt to end gerrymandering – when districts are redrawn after the 2020 Census.
“It shows that Michiganders, Democrats, Republicans, independents want accountability in our government again. People are sick of politics as usual. They are tired of deals happening behind closed doors that impact their lives, and so if our government isn’t going to change that, we will.”
Voters elected the state’s first Muslim-American woman from Michigan to Congress, Democrat Rashida Tlaib. Republicans held onto their majorities in both houses of the state legislature, but lost their super-majority in the Michigan House of Representatives.
