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By Laura Weber
A fierce divide between Republican state lawmakers over a proposal to build a second bridge between Detroit and Canada will force G-O-P leaders to reinvent their plans to move the question forward.
The chairman of the committee handling the bridge proposal said he does not have enough Republican support to move the issue forward.
State Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville said the proposal could be bounced to a committee he chairs, where it would most likely move quickly. Richardville said a lot of misinformation floating around has unnecessarily confused the bridge issue. And he said there are not just two sides to the debate over whether to build the publicly owned bridge.
"There's like 40 sides, and it seems like we hear 39 different stories when we look at those 40 sides."
Richardville said he is not giving up on the bridge proposal, and there could be a vote on the measure in the Senate within the next couple weeks.
Copyright 2010, MPRN
A fierce divide between Republican state lawmakers over a proposal to build a second bridge between Detroit and Canada will force G-O-P leaders to reinvent their plans to move the question forward.
The chairman of the committee handling the bridge proposal said he does not have enough Republican support to move the issue forward.
State Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville said the proposal could be bounced to a committee he chairs, where it would most likely move quickly. Richardville said a lot of misinformation floating around has unnecessarily confused the bridge issue. And he said there are not just two sides to the debate over whether to build the publicly owned bridge.
"There's like 40 sides, and it seems like we hear 39 different stories when we look at those 40 sides."
Richardville said he is not giving up on the bridge proposal, and there could be a vote on the measure in the Senate within the next couple weeks.
Copyright 2010, MPRN
