Maybe if Whitmer would fix the damn roads, more people would want to drive.
The lack of enthusiasm for driving among younger generations is a national issue and has nothing to do with the condition of the roads.
The GOP/Snyder legislation signed into law in 2015 was half-assed. Municipalities and counties remain hamstrung. Better than nothing, but it was half-assed.
And, yes, Whitmer's proposal was completely unrealistic and unreasonable.
How many unemployed steel industry workers either (a) had their hard-earned savings extorted by Snyder's UIA or (b) had to wait many weeks for their first check under Whitmer's UIA?
I think what happened to 40,000+ residents of Michigan who applied for unemployment benefits under Snyder only to have their tax refund checks and hard-earned savings
extorted is sickening. The media were so obsessed with Flint that they largely ignored this monumental gaffe. Snyder wouldn't even publicly address - or meet with - those impacted. He wouldn't even address the scandal during his State of the Union speeches. Pitiful. He seemed more concerned about completely distancing himself from that crisis than ensuring those wrongly impacted received recompense.
https://www.gongwer.com/programming/blo ... stid=83801
Here is a press release of Snyder boasting of the legislation he signed into law in late 2013 that helped pave the way for sanctioned extortion:
https://www.michigan.gov/formergovernor ... --,00.html
Granholm was horrible, Snyder was horrible, and Whitmer is horrible.