TRAVERSE CITY, MI -- An effort is underway to repeal the state's new law on emergency financial managers.

A rally was held Monday in Traverse City to gather support against the law.

It passed a couple months ago and gives emergency financial managers the ability to take over struggling schools and cities in times of financial crisis and terminate union contracts.

Opponents say the new law goes too far.

"the Emergency Manager will have total control - that is not democratic, that totally under-minds local control and the idea of representative government and that is not acceptable and we need to real the law," said petitioner Betsy Coffia.

To get this repeal on the ballot, the group needs more than 161,000 signatures on its petition.

You can find out more at Michiganforward.org.