Unsure why no one else has written about this so far today, but Mike Bishop announced to reporters today that DRIC is dead in Lansing, and punted the issue to Snyder and the new Legislature next year.
That means a new vote in the House, which will be GOP-controlled in 2011. If the P3 bill that's the enabling legislation for DRIC gets through that chamber, it will then go to the Senate, which will have a Republican super-majority. Doesn't seem likely to pass, at least not in a form DRIC backers want. Could end up being a poison-pill bill.
Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop says Legislature won't take up DRIC
By Bill Shea
DRIC is dead, at least for now in Michigan.
State Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop said today the Legislature will not take up the issue during the current lame-duck session the bills needed to authorize the proposed Detroit River International Crossing.
"We are going to leave this very complex issue for the next administration," Bishop said in a conference call with reporters.
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article...t-take-up-dric
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