Every day average voters could care a frog's leap about this topic.  Their is one and only one issue - the economy and how to fix it.  Lots of things relate to that - and that doesn't mean the legislature shouldn't multi-task other issues when possible, but if you do that and it appears to distract from your time on the ball you'll pay for that at the polls.  This issue is inside baseball and has nothing to do with the Republican brand (that is, the positive image to the world we should project) -- it has to do with the Republican base, which I agree we also need to reassure, but they're on board too if we fix Michigan and the nation.



Chetly Zarko
Outside Lansing & Oakland Politics
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