GRDA Meeting Brings Verbal Fireworks
GRDA delays action on new generating plant
BY RANDY KREHBIEL World Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
VINITA — Grand River Dam Authority directors avoided open defiance of Gov. Mary Fallin by withdrawing from Wednesday’s board agenda consideration of a $300 million generating plant opposed by the governor.
The meeting was not without some post-July 4 fireworks, however.
With Fallin’s representative, Finance Secretary Preston Doerflinger, in attendance, state Rep. Doug Cox, R-Grove, ripped into the governor over an executive order creating a GRDA task force, going so far as to compare Fallin to President Obama.
“We all like to bad mouth Washington, D.C. We all like to bad mouth the president, Barack Obama,” said Cox. “We’ve got a little of D.C. here. We have a governor circumventing the Legislature with executive orders.”