Auchtoon!The Pitch for the May Ballot Proposal, Interpreted
Originally published in the Ann Arbor News, Bay City Times, Flint Journal, Grand Rapids Press, Jackson Citizen Patriot, Kalamazoo Gazette, Muskegon Chronicle, Saginaw News
February 28, 2015
As the cartoon says, this May 5th Michiganders will vote on a ballot proposal for fixing our roads. Well, that’s the pitch. It’s actually much more (and needlessly) complicated than that. Which is why proponents have been having a difficult time finding people willing to shill for it. I mean, literally. A public relations firm lined up to sell the virtues quit earlier this year, and it seems nobody can find a replacement. Legislators who voted to make voters vote are now sitting on the fence en masse (weasels? lemmings? what’s a mammal that has no guts? that’s the metaphor to use here). And although Governor Snyder manages to say something positive on occasion, it is certainly not the relentless positive we’ve come to expect from him. It’s a mess. I just thought that needed to be clarified.
