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LANSING, Dec. 17, 2024 ~ State Democrats are showing frustrations with Michigan House Speaker Joe Tate‘s (D-Detroit) leadership during the final week of the lame-duck session.
Party members have shared concerns that the pieces of the party’s agenda have failed to be carried during the final weeks of the party’s trifecta control of the state government, with the GOP taking over the House in January. “They feel that he hasn’t been able to get some of the policy priorities to the finish line that Democrats wanted to see, that he hasn’t communicated with them enough about different plans from road funding to tipped wage fixes,” Detroit News reporter Beth LeBlanc told WJR. “There’s a lot of frustration there, and I’ll note that it’s been building for maybe the last year. The Democrats have not been meeting very often, in part because of the election.“
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Dec. 17, 2024 ~ Guy Gordon, Lloyd Jackson, and Jamie Edmonds talk with Detroit News politics reporter Beth LeBlanc about state Democrats becoming more frustrated with House Speaker Joe Tate, as their control of all levels of state government is quickly coming to an end.
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