Editor's note: Vanguard President and CEO TJ Bucholz comments on the Michigan Education Association's endorsement of Gretchen Whitmer for governor. Michigan Education Association officials on Monday endorsed Gretchen Whitmer for governor, urging roughly 140,000 public school teachers, staff and other member educators to rally behind her campaign for the Democrati...

When I was a little kid, my mom would say “Don’t take things that don’t belong to you.” 

And if I did anyway she would say “Give it back this instant, young man.”

If I didn’t, I knew justice – mom-style – would be swift and sure: A good solid two hours in my room was in my immediate future so I could “think” about what I’d done. (I never did, by the way.)

And if that didn’t...