[nfbmi-talk] conflicts on steroids

[joe harcz Comcast]

How can this man who runs the administrative hering system in which BEP operators air grievances also make the final agency determination for the SLA under the new rummied state plan? Isn’t this a totally conflicted situation on its face? Where would their be any integrity whatsoever in the process? 

 

Of course, under his and prior administrators of this program there hasn’t been much due process or equal protection under the law. But this codifies those inherent conflicts of interests!

 

Well get back their blind folks you should all know your place. That’s what this self-annointed judge and jury says right in the state plan.

 

Joe Harcz

 

 

 

 

 

Source:

http://www.michigan.gov/lara/0,4601,7-154-10573---,00.html

Mike Zimmer, Chief Deputy Director

Mike Zimmer is Chief Deputy Director for LARA and Executive Director of the Michigan Administrative Hearing System, a Type 1 agency housed in LARA with

an operating budget over $30 million, which provides administrative law hearings for 13 departments in state government. Adjudicative areas include professional

licensing, public benefits, unemployment and workers compensation, property tax appeals, insurance and finance regulation, public utilities, environmental

enforcement, education, Medicaid, state retirement, and employment relations. Zimmer previously served as deputy director of the State Office of Administrative

Hearings and Rules. He also served as director of the Bureau of Hearings in the former Department of Consumer and Industry Services; as an attorney in

the Office of Regulatory Reform under former Governor John Engler; and worked for the Senate majority floor leader. Zimmer earned a bachelor's degree from

Michigan State University and a law degree from George Washington University.