Legislation to strip Michigan’s incoming secretary of state of her campaign finance authority passed in the state Senate today.
The bills would create a new, so-called Fair Political Practices Commission. That commission would be made up of an equal number of Republicans and Democrats – A move critics say would create partisan deadlock and prevent the commission from getting anything done.
Republican Senator Dave Robertson is a bill sponsor.
”We are attempting to put together a board here that would have to act in a bipartisan fashion. We have heard a lot from the other side of the aisle over the last 8 years for the need for bipartisanship.”
The bill goes on to the state House.