MI house of reps calling for Simon to step down

Submitted by DOBlue48 on

Title sums it up.  Also high ranking member of AD has resigned, reportedly in protest of how thinngs are being handled.

Sad subject to be sure.  MSU is in turmoil.  

Everyone Murders

January 24th, 2018 at 6:18 PM ^

96-11 vote.

“We have lost confidence in the ability of President Lou Anna K. Simon to lead a transparent investigation, to implement changes that will ensure it never happens again, to protect students, and to lead Michigan State University forward,” the resolution says.

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2018/01/24/michigan-hous…

Everyone Murders

January 24th, 2018 at 6:19 PM ^

The bandwagon's rolling, and now everyone looking to get a political or media "push" from the Nassar-Simon Scandal is looking to get a seat before Lou Anna Simon (finally) does something right with respect to this tragedy and resigns.

Alton

January 24th, 2018 at 7:09 PM ^

It was a recorded vote, so the information is a matter of public record.  It gets published in the journal of proceedings, which goes up on the internet in the next 24 hours or so.  Watch this space; I will post the list when it's available.

Or click here to see if they have posted the House Journal from 1/24/2018 yet.

 

Alton

January 24th, 2018 at 8:04 PM ^

Sara Cambensy (D-Marquette)
Tom Cochran (D-Mason)
LaTanya Garrett (D-Detroit)
Sherry Gay-Dagnogo (D-Detroit)
Frank Liberati (D-Allen Park)
David Maturen (R-Portage)
Dave Pagel (R-Berrien Springs)
Rose Mary Robinson (D-Detroit)
Bettie Cook Scott (D-Detroit)
Hank Vaupel (R-Fowlerville)
Tenisha Yancey (D-Harper Woods)
 
I was going to have a few comments, but no politics.  There is a record, for many of them, of their reasons for voting "no" if you want to go look at the House journal for 1/24/2018.  

LSAClassOf2000

January 24th, 2018 at 6:25 PM ^

The one person that I cannot believe has been absent in Mark Hollis, yet if I think about how MSU has handled this to date, it seems totally predictable that he as well is buying into the school that somehow this is just a really rough wave that they can just ride in, land on the beach and go about their  business. The people who needed to speak have done so badly, and still others that need to speak remain conspicuously silent among the administration. It's amazing and sad simultaneously. 

DOBlue48

January 24th, 2018 at 6:32 PM ^

Including the statement from Dianne Byrum below.  Seems an odd statement, given apparently Simon had her support just a few days ago....Quite a goddamned change of heart.  Cockroaches are running everywhere.

 

 

maizenbluedevil

January 24th, 2018 at 6:47 PM ^

Nope.

Too little too late. I will be voting against her and all 7 other ass-clowns that unanimously gave Simon their support mere days ago.

You don’t get credit for changing a very recent, utterly tone deaf stance in the wake of public outcry.

That’s not integrity, it’s political expediency.

EVERY SINGLE ONE of those trustees needs to go along with Simon. They willingly hitched their wagon to hers after 5 days of victim statements and her “if it fits in my schedule” response to whether she’d be there.

MSU trustees picked their side. And only *now* they want to change that? Yeah, go fuck yourself, Dianne.

DOBlue48

January 24th, 2018 at 7:12 PM ^

On the money HHW.  Resign when the fewest amount of news people are watching will be the strategy.  Trouble for MSU, this was on the national network news tonight and if you watched any of the press conference with the survivors, they are just getting started.  And good for them.  Ain't nobody gonna tell them that nobody knew, those ladies know better and will have teams of capable people on board to help them tip over every last stone in EL and with USAG.

I think MSU was hoping all the anger and focus would remain with Nassar.  They miscalculated and we are now going to see the fallout from their underestimating these incredible young women.

 

 

UMfan21

January 24th, 2018 at 6:43 PM ^

Still baffling to me these people are asking her to resign "because the public lost faith in her" and not because she didn't fucking do her job, and allowed sexual assaults to occur on her campus for many years.

DOBlue48

January 24th, 2018 at 6:55 PM ^

I am far from an attorney, but I suspect they are steering clear of any direct language like that as lawsuits are certain to come and so statements like "she hasn't done her job on this issue" would likely lead to legal jeopardy for the author.

I am with you fan21 as Simon has clearly not done her job, or at least been very shitty at her job.  

My real problem with the statement is the first paragaph where she includes the University administration is basically at fault.  Is she herself not part of that administration??  Technically, she is probably not considered an "administrator" as a Trustee, but in reality she has some ownership in all of this.

SF Wolverine

January 24th, 2018 at 6:46 PM ^

and she's gone.  Seems like the tide has turned strongly against her.  Anyone who hopes to endure on teh BOT should be leading the Torch and Pitchfork Committee to her house, and right soon.