Voters in a small Michigan township tossed out their entire town board last night. A locksmith was even brought in to change the locks on the ousted officials’former offices. Late night. They were voted out because they supported a controversial battery plant linked to the chinese government. It is the latest dramatic chapter in a story news nation’s been covering for the last year. And news Nation senior national correspondent Brian Enton joins us now from Michigan.

You were here last night and said that they were going to change the locks if they managed to kick them all out, and they did. Yeah, they changed the locks. Elizabeth. I think this is almost something Americans all over the country sort of fantasize about booting out their local government if they don’t like them and they’re not getting the job done. Well, that’s what happened here in Green Charter Township.

We’re in the town hall. It’s very strange because the government is just gone. They all packed up yesterday. This was the supervisor’s office. He took his desk, took a bunch of other stuff. It’s empty now. The clerk’s office down here, Elizabeth, where they do a lot of the town business is just empty. The new board members are going to move in, get everything going. And they say one of their biggest priorities is stopping that project associated with China.

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