Just to give you a flavor for what happens in Lansing. This is about Transportation Funding:


HB 5072 - Amends the Michigan Vehicle Code to allow $12 million in drivers license fee revenue to be diverted from the Transportation Economic Development Fund (TEDF) to the state's general fund for FY 2008-09.

While the bill indicates that $18 million is being transferred to the general fund, the bill actually shifts only $12 million more, since the statute was already previously amended to shift $6 million from TEDF for FY 2008-09.

Arguments in Support:
Is consistent with Executive Order 22 of 2009, which the House Appropriations Committee adopted in May to bring the current fiscal year budget into line.

Arguments in Opposition:
Will dilute road funding at a time when Michigan already faces a transportation funding crisis.

I voted no, because it’s a simple shift in spending. Kind of a shell game.