{"id":3954,"date":"2023-04-21T08:28:01","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T12:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3954"},"modified":"2023-04-21T08:28:01","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T12:28:01","slug":"individuals-organizing-to-protect-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3954","title":{"rendered":"Individuals Organizing to Protect Themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/JPA390.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"417\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/JPA390.jpg\" alt=\"Individuals Organizing to Protect Themselves\" class=\"wp-image-3955\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/JPA390.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/JPA390-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There was a news conference this week where several Michigan lawmakers expressed their concern and general opposition to two proposed battery plants for electric vehicles near Big Rapids, Michigan.\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.michiganradio.org\/politics-government\/2023-04-18\/gop-lawmakers-highlight-opposition-to-gotion-project\" target=\"_blank\">A summary from a Michigan Radio report:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Michigan lawmakers remain split over whether a U.S.-based subsidiary of a Chinese-owned electric vehicle battery company should receive state incentive funding.<\/p><p>Back in October 2022, the Michigan Strategic Fund Board approved $175 million total in incentives to support the development of a Gotion Inc. battery component plant in Big Rapids.<\/p><p>Despite passing a multi-million dollar spending deal to free up the funding and the fanfare of the moment, some Republican lawmakers have since soured on the idea.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m fine with the GOP leaders changing their minds. (When new information becomes available, changing your mind can be the right thing to do.) I definitely get why it&#8217;s important to ensure the good stewardship of public money. And given the increasingly authoritarian nature of the regime that controls China, vetting a corporation with ties to China is the right thing to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What&#8217;s bizarre to me, however, is that leaders so keen to rally Michiganders to organize and stand up for their rights are the very same ones who\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.michiganradio.org\/politics-government\/2023-03-24\/michigan-1st-state-in-decades-to-repeal-right-to-work-law\" target=\"_blank\">vehemently oppose citizens doing the same through labor unions<\/a>. Not exactly the first inconsistency in a political party that I&#8217;ve detected, but sometimes certain ones stand out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a news conference this week where several Michigan lawmakers expressed their concern and general opposition to two proposed battery plants for electric vehicles near Big Rapids, Michigan.\u00a0A summary from a Michigan Radio report: Michigan lawmakers remain split over whether a U.S.-based subsidiary of a Chinese-owned electric vehicle battery company should receive state incentive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-cartoon","category-michiganpress-org","category-michiganradio-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3956,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3954\/revisions\/3956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}