Gretchen Whitmer on Technology

Will act on infrastructure if legislature won't

My Rebuilding Michigan plan is financed without an increase at the gas pump, and it will do three things: save time, money, and lives. Since it doesn't require the legislature to act, we can get started right away. That's important.

Expand broadband with net neutrality

Bill Schuette (R): Unknown.

Gretchen Whitmer (D): Yes. Expand broadband. Implement net neutrality through Executive Order.

We need $3B per year for inadequate infrastructure

Whitmer said current funding levels for infrastructure are inadequate, and that she would begin to address the $4 billion annual funding gap ("far & away the reason why our roads are so dangerous," she said) identified by the infrastructure commission by investing an extra $3 billion per year up front.

"Recent plans rely on future legislators to pull funding from the state's general fund to make less than adequate investments in infrastructure," she said. "It's a flawed plan that will not work."