LANSING – House Speaker Jase Bolger and House Minority Leader Tim Greimel said on Tuesday a road improvement funding proposal is unlikely to happen.
“I’m not hearing much hope,” Bolger (R-Marshall) told reporters after House session. “We’ll leave that to play out. I know people are continuing to work on it, and I’m not going to walk away. But, it does look dim at this point.”
Bolger also said a plan has not come out of the Legislative Quadrant yet, and the issue is more of a lack of proposal than it is a lack of votes. In August, there was a mini-burst of optimism once the top leaders began talking about the issue again.
But then the optimism ran smack into the political realities of the issue and the raw feelings in the Republican Party about the decision to expand Medicaid.
Greimel said he remains committed to continuing conversations with the legislative leaders and the governor.
“As I’ve said before I have questions, concerns … about whether something will be put on the ballot next November in 2014, (which) is the general election for everybody,” he said. “August of 2014 is going to be Republican Party primaries, and it is going to see the personal property tax on the ballot, and putting anything on the ballot in February or May would require an additional cost to taxpayers for having a special election.”
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