Senator Schauer's votes and legislative activity are tracked, along with those of other Michigan legislators, on the excellent Mackinac Center sponsored website www.michiganvotes.com. Once you get to this site, it is a simple matter to plug Senator Schauer's name into the first page's search engine.  Comments on Senator Schauer's income tax increase (the first item on the page) were overwhelmingly negative.

And here is a quote on the drinking water tax increase that Senator Schauer introduced:

Here is a summary of the bill [Senate 395] which Senator Schauer voted against in 2003:

 Here is a summary of the bill [House 5497] against which Mark voted: 

The bill was introduced by Rep. Lauren Hager on December 12, 2001; it required a person to be a citizen or a legal resident alien in order to apply for a Michigan driver’s license, and to authorize the Department of State to report to an appropriate federal agency if it has reasonable cause to believe that a driver’s license application contains information that an applicant is an illegal alien.

Amazing though it may seem, the material for this post actually comes from the Walburg Watch website! Readers who wish to do so may go to this website to find the source material.

The Democrats hastened to smooth things over, of course. Ken Brock apologized, David Nacht accepted the apology [and then endorsed Mark!], and everybody pronounced themselves satisfied.

Susan Demas, though, probably had the last best word: