Snyder: End of the illusion

from the Metro Times:



By Jack Lessenberry

Gov. Rick Snyder is really a moderate. Pro-business to be sure, but not one of those horrible right-wingers in the legislature.

Actually, he's a closet liberal on social issues and the environment. How could he be otherwise? After all, he lived in Ann Arbor for years.

We've been hearing that stuff for the last six years now. Remarkably, some people were able to keep believing that bilge, even in the face of all the evidence.

Well, yes, he gave businesses huge tax breaks at the expense of schools, but that was just an experiment. Tax people's pensions? Well, be patient!

Signed legislation allowing motorcyclists to ride without helmets, adding to the highway death toll and lists of the badly brain-injured?

A minor flaw, perhaps, they told us, but one of those things he had to do to get right-wingers to go along with his plan to fix the roads.

Except, of course, they never did. Then there was the little matter of going back on what he said ("not on my agenda&quot and helping ram through right-t0-work. I frankly forget what the excuse was for that one. .............(more)

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