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Eric Lufer

Eric Lufer

President of the Citizens Research Council of Michigan, a nonpartisan public policy research organization, and frequent guest on Michigan radio and podcasts.

Oct 25, 2026

20:50
And so how do you find people respond to something which I think is good information?
20:58
Yeah.
20:59
You know, in this day and age, we have people that are solidly on the right, very Republican.
21:05
We have people solidly Democrat on the left, very progressive.
21:12
There's a lot of us in the middle who just want government to work.
21:16
They want to understand how their taxes work.
21:19
They want to understand the organization of their township government or city government or what the legislature is doing that affects them now.

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26:59
So how old is the organization? What was it called originally? And like what forced it to be created or why did they do it?
76:57
Once those folks are chosen, say this all goes through, what types of things would they debate when it comes to our Constitution?
77:06
They have the opportunity to start with a clean piece of paper and choose among themselves what they want a new Constitution to look like.
77:16
Now we know from past history that it tends to be a very marginal approach.
77:22
How do they take what currently exists and find ways to make it better? Ultimately, as you said, they have to come back to the voters and try to convince them that what they drafted is better than our current 1963 constitution.
77:37
So radical change is hard to sell, but there's nothing constraining anything, any topics, any, um, thing that they want to put in they could choose to completely rewrite it and make us look like our state they could say most of the things are working unless just fix the things that they perceive to be issues and so it's going to really matter which party um not so delusional to think that the green party is going to get a lot of votes but so you have a lot of republicans and democrats which party has the majority that would be able to say a bigger government, a smaller government, more controls, less controls, anything like that.
80:11
And Eric, when you talk about this money out of politics proposal, which utilities and government contractors and political contributions would actually be covered in this?
80:22
So it's the regulated public utilities.
80:25
So we're primarily talking about consumers energy and DTE.

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