Bouchard to the feds: You'll have a tough time levying unfunded mandates on Michigan families during my administration

 

For Immediate Release: March 30, 2010
Contact: Kathryn Martin, 586.872.3144

 

Bouchard to the feds: You'll have a tough time levying unfunded mandates on Michigan families during my administration

Oakland County - Mike Bouchard, Republican candidate for governor, today pledged to stand up to the federal government and its growing penchant for forcing unfunded mandates on Michigan.

"Unfunded mandates mean major problems for us as a state," Bouchard said. "The Democrats' health plan alone means an estimated $700 million unfunded mandate to Michigan taxpayers when our state already is facing a $1.7 billion deficit. That's money that could have been spent on roads, education, and local police and firefighters. We have enough problems without Washington trampling our rights and I intend to do everything in my power to stop this and every other unfunded mandate they try to heap upon Michigan families.

"If elected governor, I will use every means at my disposal to protect our state sovereignty, whether it is the use of our courts to reaffirm our 10th Amendment rights or withholding any federal funds we can.

"It is outrageous that the feds are telling Michigan how to spend its money when our families and businesses are already hurting. That's why, as governor, I will fight Washington tooth and nail against unfunded mandates on Michigan. We are putting the federal government on notice that if it drops another unfunded mandate on Michigan, it will have a very tough fight on its hands under a Bouchard administration.  That's my pledge."

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"If elected governor, I will use every means at my disposal to protect our state sovereignty, whether it is the use of our courts to reaffirm our 10th Amendment rights or withholding any federal funds we can.