Senator Aric Nesbitt's Press Releases

LANSING, Mich. — Senate Republican Leader Aric Nesbitt, R-Porter Township, on Thursday released the following statement as the Senate Committee on Energy and Environment considered a series of Democrat-sponsored bills designed to drastically change Michigan’s energy policy: “Radical ideology is no way to govern; this short-sighted push — now being unveiled in the Senate at the direction of our governor and other far-left Democrats — to

LANSING, Mich. — Senate Republican Leader Aric Nesbitt, R-Porter Township, issued the following statement Wednesday after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s “What’s Next Address” ahead of the Legislature’s fall session schedule: “Emboldened by her presidential ambition and her party’s slim majority in the Legislature, Gov. Whitmer has demonstrated that her bridge-building rhetoric was always insincere and is showing herself as the left-wing, progressive extremist she really is. Unfortunately,

LANSING, Mich. — Senate Republican Leader Aric Nesbitt, R-Porter Township, made the following statement Thursday in response to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s announcement that she will deliver a “What’s Next Address” on Aug. 30 to outline her policy priorities for the fall legislative session: “If there is one thing we have learned to count on from our governor, it is her gift to say all the right

LANSING, Mich. — Senate Republican Leader Aric Nesbitt, R-Porter Township, made the following statement Wednesday after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer issued an executive order to create another department of education within the state’s executive bureaucracy — a new Michigan Department of Lifelong Education, Advancement and Potential (MiLEAP) to partner with the already established Michigan Department of Education and State Board of Education: “More government does not fix

LANSING, Mich. — Senate Republican Leader Aric Nesbitt, R-Porter Township, made the following statement Thursday, denouncing the partisan passage of Senate Bill 169 by Democrats who wish to compel public sector employees to turn over their private contact information to union bosses by law: “Once again, this new Democratic majority is rushing to provide special public handouts to their big union backers — this time their

LANSING, Mich. — Senate Republican Leader Aric Nesbitt, R-Porter Township, made the following statement Thursday in support of Sen. Jonathan Lindsey, nominating him as a voting member to represent Senate Republicans on Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s recently announced Growing Michigan Together Council focused on Michigan’s trending population losses: “Sen. Lindsey is a thoughtful and fiscally responsible public servant — he will provide a valuable voice on this