We’ve probably gushed enough in recent weeks about the water legislation deal worked out by State Rep. Rebekah Warren (D-Ann Arbor) and State Sen. Patty Birkholz (R-Saugatuck). But bipartisanship of this magnitude is so rare in Lansing that we just need to offer up one more reprise.
Here’s what pundit Bill Ballenger says about the deal-makers in his latest issue of Inside Michigan Politics:
“With the right people in key positions, the seemingly dysfunctional Legislature can still take the lead away from the executive branch and drive policy… For women everywhere who have gone into politics belieivng they could make a difference, this was their finest hour. It took two relatively unknown women lawmakers from different political parties from different chambers and from wildly different parts of the state to get the state’s most important piece of environmental legislation in nearly four decades enacted… Term limits doesn’t have to be an impediment to legislative achievement.”
