(LANSING, MI.)–Rep. Beau LaFave today stuck to his decision on Michigan’s outdated prevailing wage law despite unsuccessful efforts to buy his vote and intimidate him into changing his position. “I will not be bought or intimidated,” said LaFave, of Iron Mountain, after he joined the House in voting to repeal the prevailing wage law. “I always vote in the best interests of hard-working Upper Peninsula taxpayers, and that is exactly what I did today.” LaFave said he recently was approached by a union representative who offered to have the union contribute to his leadership political action committee (PAC) if LaFave would vote ‘no’ on the bill. LaFave said he was not interested in a payoff. LaFave does not even have a leadership PAC. Within days, LaFave said his personal cell phone was flooded with an unusually high volume of harassing calls and texts demanding he change his vote. Many of the calls came from outside the area he represents in the Michigan House and at all hours of the night. “These dirty tactics were an attempt to undermine the people of the Upper Peninsula and my integrity,” LaFave said. “It’s exactly what’s wrong with politics today. I came to Lansing to clean it up, not cash in.”
(Aaron Harper,WJNR,WOBE,WHTO)
aaronharper22@gmail.com