Senator Nesbitt Disappointed By Majority Democrats So Far

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Republicans are nearly four months into being in the minority in the Michigan Senate for the first time in about 40 years, and Senate Minority Leader Aric Nesbitt of Van Buren County does not like how the year has started.

“I’ve been fairly disappointed on the way they just jammed through these partisan, left-wing progressive agenda items on their list,” says Nesbitt. “I was hopeful we could govern in the middle 70% and figure out broad bipartisan compromises.”

He says majority Democrats have passed bills that he says aren’t good economically.

“Even some of the tax reform issues that could have gotten bipartisan compromises, they shoved in with providing a half-billion-dollars a year in corporate welfare to some profitable, multi-national corporations, so I’ve been disappointed on that.”

Nesbitt is in his second and final term in the Senate and was named the Republican leader after the November election.