Jack Lessenberry
Metro Times columnist Jack Lessenberry takes the state Democrats to task, saying it became clear this year "The Democrats are in need of a soul."
Lessenberry writes:
A few days ago, I sat down with term-limited Senate Minority Leader Gretchen Whitmer, one of their few stars.
"I think it's time to ask, have we lost our way as a party?" she said, as she prepared to end four frustrating years as the leader of a tiny knot of legislators who had essentially no power.
"Do we know who we are and what we stand for?" she asked.
Lessenberry writes:
What's clear is that the voters don't think so.
Democrats this year took on a governor who rammed through right-to-work legislation, cut benefits for the working poor, cut aid to education, gave businesses huge tax breaks that failed to produce jobs.
