Subject: Re: Can He Do Anything Right?
Something funny, though- the roads are great up north in areas that have been controlled by Republicans. Methinks the expenditure of state highway funds were directed for years by a Republican legislature to Republican areas of the state.

Canton Township, where I live, started to levy a property tax, for road maintenance, even though the township is not responsible for any of the roads in the township, because the state and county, who *are* responsible for the roads, were not getting the job done.

I went to a public meeting about the road maintenance tax, and learned an interesting nugget from the township engineer: Lansing allocates road funding to counties, based on the number of lane-miles of road in the county, regardless how much traffic uses the roads. When my former GOP State Senator, ran for Gov, shortly after I had that conversation with the township engineer, I drove over to the GOP HQ in Livonia for a meet and greet with him. I asked him about the road funding apportionment. He agreed, the Canton engineer had it just about right. He then added that the rural outstate counties that benefit from the current system, hold the majority of the GOP seats in Lansing, and, at that time, the GOP held the majority of both houses, so the system was not going to change.

Steve