My Response To: “This Is Not Even True and I”

I don’t know where to start. If you don’t think that the lobbyists didn’t come out ahead and the Governor didn’t play a part in that happening in this whole debacle you don’t have any understanding of politics and all the back door dealing that takes place.

Why have essentially ALL of the republican organizations and elected officials been against Medicaid Expansion  and the effects it will have on Michigan and the people who will go on Medicaid because of it. 

It’s because Obamacare and anything associated with it is unsustainable. Michigan in the end will pay the price by having to carry the burden of the costs for the program after the federal dollars stop coming in. Additionally, how do we know that the federal government will continue to subsidize the program after initial 100% funding ceases. We don’t know that they will and the President has already stated himself that the program is unsustainable. The impact on Michigan will be devastating economically!

As far as the Governor is concerned I seriously question his republican credentials. He is not a conservative in many ways and has shown that in many of the positions he has taken on issues and legislation that go against what the majority of the republican base believe. 

I think if the truth be known he was considering what party banner to run under in 2010 before he chose the republican party. I would guess that he ran as a republican because he knew that in the primary he could win because there were 4 conservatives that had name recognition in the party and and then him, a relative unknown, on the ballot. The conservatives split the vote among the “real republican” voters and Snyder got the vote of the democrats, independents, and liberals that crossed over to disrupt the republican primary.

I ask, don’t you think it’s odd that, Senator Emmons and Represenative Leonard were both against it and the majority of republicans in both the house and senate caucuses were against passage of the Medicaid expansion and the only way to get it passed was to pick off republicans who could be “bought” or “influenced”.

If you are so naive to think these types of things don’t happen you live in a fantasy world. Politics is a tough business and all to often principles are compromised. A direct quote I heard Lt. Governor Calley make was that, “Sometimes you have to compromise your principles” to get things done.

That should tell you how deals are made. We will never know what happened and what kind of deals were made but I promise you deals were made, as they always are -- and in this case it wasn’t in the best interest of Michigan’s residents.

I worked for the legislature for over 30 years! I know what happens behind closed doors, do you? I research the issues, take my positions, and make my comments based upon facts -- do you?

The bottom line is that our state and country need to elect constitutional conservatives to office that will be “men and women of principle” and I will say and do all I can to accomplish that goal. 

Steve Willis
