Say It Ain't So Already

House Speaker Andy Dillon, D-Redford Township, and Rep. Alma Wheeler Smith, D-Salem Township, were to have joined Republican Attorney General Mike Cox and Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop on a panel this afternoon to discuss state tax and budget policy at the conference sponsored by the Michigan Chamber of Commerce Foundation.

Their decision was based on objections to Beck, who is the event’s keynote speaker, Rossman said.

But both, along with other Democrats, on the agenda notified organizers last night and this morning they would not appear, said Kelly Rossman, a Lansing public relations executive who chairs the Chamber Foundation.