Let voters decide Dillon's fate in November
Much as I disagreed with the huge tax increase that Speaker Andy Dillon, D-Redford Township, pushed through the Michigan House of Representatives late last year, I didn't believe in the recall effort that was launched by tax revolter Leon Drolet and I'm pleased that it failed.
Dillon's up for re-election in November. If the folks in his district want to give him the hook then, God bless them. But any recall at this point would be (1) academic and (2) extremely costly to the taxpayers of his district, who would have been faced first with the recall, then with an election to replace him with a temporary substitute, then with another election to choose a permanent successor. Which probably would have been Dillon right back again.
Dillon didn't break any laws. He didn't violate any sacred trusts. He's a Democrat. He never promised not to raise taxes and spend, spend, spend. That's why the voters put him where he is, for better or worse.
Drolet, a rock-ribbed Macomb County Republican and a passionate if often misguided tax-fighter, didn't agree with the Democrat-controlled Legislature's successful campaign to increase our tax bill by more than $1 billion without making cuts to offset the increase. I didn't agree, either.
But I'm not into throwing good money after bad by conducting largely symbolic recalls.
