Detroit's financial condition -- and officials' inability to make progress on fixing it -- fuels frustration among Lansing legislators.
Republican Sen. Jack Brandenburg, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, told Fox 2's Tim Skubick he is fed up with what he described as the Detroit City Council's obstructionism."The city council of Detroit is dysfunctional and blatantly stupid," Brandenburg, of Harrison Township, says.
"If they continue to push back and walk away, it becomes impossible to work with somebody who's behaving that way," says House Speaker Jase Bolger.
The Senate Republican leader does not believe the city is foot dragging, but he does believe it's time to give the city two options -- an emergency manager or a right to vote itself into bankruptcy.
"Allow those elected officials in the City of Detroit to vote whether they want an appointed emergency financial manager or whether instead they would like to go toward federal bankruptcy," says Randy Richardville, the senate majority leader.
One Republican senator pushes a completely different option -- dissolving the city and folding it into Wayne County government.
"If we have to, that is one idea we have to look at. We have to look at everything that's on the table. Again, if this goes to federal bankruptcy, every employee down there will suffer. The city will suffer and the vultures will come in and take the jewels of Detroit and they will be gone," says Sen. Rick Jones.
