Will The Courser Gamrat Scandal Get In The Way Of A Road Package ? NO.

Nobody cares about them. But this is what WILL keep blocking any progress, as September 2015 ends with no Road Funding Solution in Michigan in sight!

The Todd Courser and Cindy Gamrat scandal was such a big deal it even got national news coverage.

What adulterous sex ? What government scandal ? Who Me ?

At first they were innocent - they said. Or just being picked on by the republicans in Lansing who simply did not like them - they said. Well finally they either quit or were thrown out of their jobs. Good - we said.

We screwed up (literally) but give us our jobs back !

Then, surprise surprise, they flip-flopped, turned around (or over) and said to the astonishment of the whole state, that they wanted the voters to decide if they were good enough to be part of Michigan government again and would run for the vacant offices they got canned from or ran out of !

Michigan Roads Are In Trouble: Here's Why

Highway Trust Fund in peril in Washington

Will Congress Undo the Highway Trust Fund Knot? Or Not...

As if we don't have enough problems with the Michigan legislature failing to do anything about a long term road fix. It's been years and like kids fighting over toys, no one in Lansing can or will give up anything. Not even to make our roads safer.

Now the money Michigan gets from the federal Highway Trust Fund is in a knot and in danger of falling away like my

Road Kill News: Vol. I, Issue IV

Well, I think I am getting the Volume and Issue thing straight. Maybe...

Here is the Road Kill News(c) for another week. Stuff that has something to do with the shape of roads in Michigan - or not. You decide. Just click on the headlines to read.

Why do truck weigh stations seem like they're always closed?

From Michigan Public Radio. How can a weigh station enforce fines on overweight trucks, which some think are destroying our roads, if they always seem to be closed?

AAA says more than a million Michiganders rushing to catch last of the summer sun

Seems like more people are driving this Labor Day, partly because gas is cheaper. Would you be willing to pay a bit extra at the pump to get better roads. Our ignorant  clueless nice lawmakers in Lansing don't think so.

State says lease payments to end soon on idle rail cars 

State pays $3,000-a-day lease payments on idle train cars - $10 million since 2010 - before finally figuring it's not a good idea. No wonder there is so little money for roads. WTF!

Investigation finds Courser-Gamrat "committed misconduct" and are "not credible witnesses" 

Those of us not living under a rock the past few weeks know about this. But the photos of them in this Michigan Radio article are creepy: Their staring right at you! Now some think this is going to keep the hired help in Lansing too busy to come up with a Compromise Road Funding Bill in September. Thanks to two Tea Party lawmakers acting like hormone engorged unchaperoned teenagers under the high school bleachers. How's that working out for ya kids?

Michigan’s Local Leaders Turn Against Zombie Republican Lawmakers

From the Democracy Tree website. The opening paragraph says it all about 'Zombie Lawmakers' -

"The Courser-Gamrat affair, while tawdry in its details, remains the act of two nutty freshmen lawmakers, and simply does not rise to the ethically criminal category found in the dereliction of duty of Republican leadership in Lansing."

Zombie Lawmakers simply don't get things done in Lansing. Why? 

Contact me on this site and if you get it right, I'll send you a FREE BUMPER STICKER!!

 Hint: What zombie nourishment is missing in the Lansing capitol?


Drive Careful,
Will

Put A Head On That Pothole

Driving on the lousy roads here in Michigan, like a bad day at work, can make one think of finally making it home, kicking back and hoisting a can of Pothole Stout !

Yes, that's Pothole Stout.  Unlike the potholes in our roads, this beer is available only for a limited time,  and it may be hard to find.


And as the end of the un-lawmaking session is about here in Lansing without a vote on road funding in the Michigan budget,  we have another good excuse to "pop one open" and put a head on it.


Drive Carefully,
Will