I loved the part when the Lieutenant Governerd tried to tell us that there were differences between what ex-Governor Granholm introduced and what the Governerd is introducing today.

Really, the only significant difference is that there is a "public authority" involved, probably because the State's debt ceiling cannot handle the loan from Canada. Oh it is a loan, not equity financing as the Lieutenant Governerd mistakenly said.

Oh sure, it is specific to DRIC now but that was because MDOT was so overreaching before that no one in their right mind, except for some unthinking House Democrats, would ever have approved it.

Speaking of the Democrats, they have to be furious at how little mention their Community Benefits Agreement demand was passed over. There was a sentence or two but there is no way that the Governerd is going to fight for it leaving it to the P3 operator to somehow fulfill the requirements of the Democrats. That should just about kill any support that the Democrats will give to the DRIC bridge.

There's nothing new about saying that there is no financial risk to Michigan. Didn't Jenny tell us that it was a "no-brainer." Clearly, the Administration members are people without brains because they are still putting this forward. Oh yes, they referred to certain sections of the Act. However, for some unknown reason, they did not refer to the definition of "availability payments" that is in the Act too. If they had, they would have been forced to concede that there were at least four ways around that definition to put Michiganders at risk.