Jennifer Conlin: Just Plain Nuts

State Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Jen­nifer Con­lin, who rep­re­sents Lyn­don Town­ship, Dex­ter Town­ship, Web­ster Town­ship, North­field Town­ship, Ann Arbor Town­ship, and part of the City of Ann Arbor in Washt­e­naw Coun­ty, ran as a mod­er­ate, but has since come out as a par­ti­san extrem­ist in Lans­ing.

In the Washt­e­naw Coun­ty Repub­li­can Par­ty’s fli­er, we present some of the most rad­i­cal actions tak­en by Rep. Con­lin.

Let’s review each state­ment and pro­vide more details:

1. This is the repeal of Michi­gan’s Right to Work law, which pro­hibits work­ers from being fired for not pay­ing trib­ute to the labor union. Jen­nifer Con­lin, along with 50 oth­er House Democ­rats, intro­duced House Bill 4004 and vot­ed for its pas­sage. It became law on March 24, 2023.

2. Jen­nifer Con­lin and 38 oth­er Democ­rats intro­duced House Bills 4616 and 4617, which passed with unan­i­mous Demo­c­rat sup­port, to ban so-called “con­ver­sion ther­a­py” which includes ther­a­py for “detran­si­tion­ing” chil­dren and adults that wish to revert to their bio­log­i­cal sex after expe­ri­enc­ing harm from sex-change oper­a­tions. This threat­ens the free prac­tice of med­i­cine and doc­tors seek­ing to help these patients could lose their license to prac­tice med­i­cine. To dri­ve their point home, Democ­rats unan­i­mous­ly reject­ed an amend­ment to the bill to pro­hib­it ster­il­iz­ing chil­dren with­out their par­ents’ con­sent.

3. The first bill intro­duced this year was House Bill 4001, which includes $1.5 bil­lion for cor­po­rate wel­fare, includ­ing the first install­ment of a $500 mil­lion ongo­ing source of rev­enue for the Strate­gic Out­reach and Attrac­tion Reserve, the SOAR Fund Michi­gan uses to make the hand­outs. There is anoth­er $150 mil­lion for polit­i­cal­ly con­nect­ed donors.

4. House Bill 4145 through 4148 com­prise Michi­gan’s “Red Flag” law, which was passed with unan­i­mous Democ­rats sup­port and unan­i­mous Repub­li­can oppo­si­tion, to strip gun own­ers of their right to bear arms with­out due process of law, based on unsub­stan­ti­at­ed accu­sa­tions from dis­grun­tled fam­i­ly mem­bers, neigh­bors, co-work­ers, and/or cur­rent or ex-roman­tic part­ners, or room­mates. These laws rely on the issu­ing of ex-parte (one-sided) orders autho­riz­ing law enforce­ment, includ­ing SWAT teams, to imme­di­ate­ly seize firearms from the sub­ject of the order with­out noti­fi­ca­tion or right to an attor­ney. Sim­i­lar leg­is­la­tion was recent­ly struck down in New York in a case in which an abuser obtained a “red flag” law against an ex-girl­friend who had obtained a restrain­ing order against him. We await the day Michi­gan’s new Red Flag law is struck down as well. Jen­nifer Con­lin also sup­port­ed and vot­ed for oth­er assaults on the Sec­ond Amend­ment, includ­ing uni­ver­sal gun reg­is­tra­tion and “lock up your safe­ty” leg­is­la­tion.

5. House Bills 4759 through 4761, intro­duced by Jen­nifer Con­lin and 33 oth­er Democ­rats, would man­date Michi­gan pro­duce 100% of its ener­gy from “renew­able” sources by 2035. Since Michi­gan only uses 11% expen­sive renew­able ener­gy now, this would require replac­ing 89% of Michi­gan’s ener­gy sources, caus­ing ener­gy prices to sky­rock­et and caus­ing rolling black­outs and oth­er severe prob­lems caused by “renew­able” sources, such as dam bursts, exter­mi­na­tion of whales, and tox­ic chem­i­cals in solar cells leach­ing into the envi­ron­ment.

6. Repeal­ing Michi­gan’s 3rd grade read­ing law was a pri­or­i­ty for Democ­rats. Sen­ate Bill 12 was passed by the House on March 3, 2023 with unan­i­mous Demo­c­rat sup­port and was signed into law on March 24. Under the bill, schools may now advance chil­dren beyond the 3rd grade who can­not read, ulti­mate­ly mak­ing high­er learn­ing impos­si­ble and allow­ing schools to paper over their own fail­ings. Jen­nifer Con­lin also intro­duced House Bill 4058, which would have done the same thing.

7. Jen­nifer Con­lin vot­ed to pass Sen­ate Bill 147, which would define abor­tion as a civ­il right and there­by require employ­ers that offer health cov­er­age to pay for their employ­ees’ abor­tions. This includes all forms of abor­tion, includ­ing late-term abor­tion, dis­mem­ber­ment abor­tion, and poi­son abor­tion.

8. Michi­gan’s film sub­sidy pro­gram was launched in 2008 and ter­mi­nat­ed in 2015 after prov­ing a colos­sal flop. After deliv­er­ing hun­dreds of mil­lions of Michi­gan tax­pay­er dol­lars to film stu­dios, there were 102 few­er film indus­try jobs in this state, accord­ing to fed­er­al employ­ment sta­tis­tics. Oth­er states’ film incen­tive pro­grams have also been shown to be a waste. Jen­nifer Con­lin intro­duced House Bills 4907 and 4908 to rein­state this proven fail­ure and waste of tax­pay­ers’ mon­ey to ben­e­fit Democ­rats’ friends in Hol­ly­wood.

9. Jen­nifer Con­lin vot­ed to pass House Bill 4695, which would man­date an extend­ed “ear­ly vot­ing peri­od” that would ren­der cit­i­zen over­sight such as poll watch­ing and poll chal­leng­ing so imprac­ti­cal as to be impos­si­ble. To add insult to injury the leg­is­la­tion also allows for “bal­lots on demand” to be print­ed that include no ser­i­al num­bers. Democ­rats have con­sis­tent­ly vot­ed to remove every safe­guard against elec­tion fraud in Michi­gan — for obvi­ous rea­sons.

10. Jen­nifer Con­lin and oth­er Democ­rats intro­duced and passed House Bill 4007, to man­date gov­ern­ment con­tracts pay “pre­vail­ing wage” rather than com­pet­ing wages. In con­junc­tion with oth­er bills, such as 4231 that would repeal fair and open com­pe­ti­tion in gov­ern­men­tal con­struc­tion (which Jen­nifer Con­lin also intro­duced), com­pe­ti­tion is effec­tive­ly elim­i­nat­ed in gov­ern­ment con­tract­ing, result­ing in mas­sive­ly high­er costs for tax­pay­ers.

Side Two restates some of the issues on Side 1, although it also men­tions Jen­nifer Con­lin intro­duc­ing leg­is­la­tion to impose a parental man­date that they send their chil­dren to kinder­garten in a pub­lic school, House Bill 4059.