Editor's Note: Detroit lawmaker ditches her constituents

Editor's Note: Detroit lawmaker ditches her constituents:
"If you or I decided to skip work repeatedly and without excuse, there’s little doubt what would happen.
We wouldn’t have a paycheck anymore.
But Michigan lawmakers get to play by different rules.
...Rep. Bettie Cook Scott...lost in the August primary for state Senate, she’s reportedly not been in Lansing doing her job at all.
...this summer, when she went around to primary polling locations, telling voters not to support the “ching chong” -- a racial slur in reference to her opponent Rep. Stephanie Chang, also of Detroit. Chang, who is Asian American, handily beat Cook Scott.
...Even before Cook Scott stopped coming to work, she wasn’t doing a stellar job. The Mackinac Center for Public Policy tracks the votes of all lawmakers, and found that over her three terms in the House, Cook Scott missed 584 votes -- and 197 votes this session alone.
This is another reason voters must choose their elected leaders carefully..."
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