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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">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? </P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">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!</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">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.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Joe Harcz</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Source:</P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">http://www.michigan.gov/lara/0,4601,7-154-10573---,00.html</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Mike Zimmer, Chief Deputy
Director</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">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</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">an operating budget over $30
million, which provides administrative law hearings for 13 departments in state
government. Adjudicative areas include professional</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">licensing, public benefits,
unemployment and workers compensation, property tax appeals, insurance and
finance regulation, public utilities, environmental</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">enforcement, education, Medicaid,
state retirement, and employment relations. Zimmer previously served as deputy
director of the State Office of Administrative</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">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</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">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</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Michigan State University and a
law degree from George Washington University.</P></DIV></BODY></HTML>