(WWJ) A driver who is upset about Governor Gretchen Whitmer's plan to hike the gas tax to fix the roads has started a petition drive to impeach the governor..
Rhein Krigner says Whitmer ran under a "false platform," promising to fix the damn roads, but not revealing she planned a 45 cent-a-gallon tax hike until she was already elected.
The tax hike proposal is languishing while lawmakers continue to hash out a state budget. Budget proposals under consideration do not include the gas tax, experts say, and Whitmer has backed away from an earlier pledge to veto any budget that doesn't include a fix for the roads.
In the meantime, Krigner wants Whitmer to go, though his petition drive is purely ceremonial. Only legislators can impeach a sitting governor. See the petition HERE.
Krigner writes on the petition site: "This Governor ran for office under a false platform to fix the roads and not to raise gas taxes and in her first budget she proposed the highest gas tax of $.45 a gallon. The proposed taxes on small business will be the end of the long road to the economic recovery we were experiencing. Michigan cannot go through another economic recession and loss of jobs because of companies moving to another State."
Jared C supports ousting the governor, writing, "Ruins my way of life, doesn't understand a blue collar outdoorsman policy is garbage."
Another wrote, "I feel that she is taking our state backwards and undoing all the positive progress Governor Snyder made."
Not everyone is a fan of the effort.
LaDonna Carson from Centerline won't be signing the peitition, saying she doesn't blame Whitmer for the condition of the roads.
"I mean the roads were bad, but they didn't think about that when Snyder was in. Look at Flint. He should have been going to jail for all that stuff that happened and all those kids who were sick. And people still drinking lead. People losing their homes because they haven't paid their water bills. So if they didn't think about impeaching Snyder, they shouldn't think about this governor either."
Krigner has just 23,000 signatures so far. To start a recall effort, he would need 800,000 signatures.
