Looks like Michigan state Democrats have had their own little Lafayette Park moment.  Surely, somewhere in the Democrat play book there’s a paragraph about not putting things in print (or on disk) that you don’t want to read about on the front page.  Must be some of that new kind of politics national, state, and local Democrats are trumpeting.  New indeed.  From the Wall Street Journal:

It’s still not certain whether an ambitious proposal to amend Michigan’s state constitution will find a spot on the Nov. 4 ballot. But new revelations leave little doubt that proponents are engaged in a blatantly partisan effort to change the state political system to favor Democrats.

The proposal, known as “Reform Michigan Government Now,” is billed by its backers as a relatively neutral measure that would make commonsensical changes to how the state is run. Among other things, it would streamline government by reducing the number of state legislators, slash salaries for state politicians by up to 25%, loosen restrictions on absentee voting and require lawmakers to disclose financial information.

But it turns out that these populist measures are included to disguise a deeply partisan agenda being pursued by Reform Michigan’s Democratic backers. That agenda was laid bare last week when the Mackinac Center, a Michigan think tank, discovered a PowerPoint presentation of the proposal posted on a United Auto Workers regional Web site.

The 35-page presentation’s blunt subtitle is “Changing the rules of politics in Michigan to help Democrats,” and it begins by lamenting that “Democrats have not controlled the entire State Legislature in 25 years.” To fix that, the strategy is to gain control of the redistricting process by which voting district lines are drawn every 10 years.

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