Matt Hall

But they made it a statewide campaign, a district-by-district campaign that changed the rest of the ticket.

So comparing that to 2026, then the fact that Rogers is essentially the top of the ticket for Republicans, is that going to be good enough to save Bill Huizenga, to save Tom Barrett and to save Matt Hall as being the Speaker of the House?

Well, I think the Democrats already pulled out of Matt Hall.

So Matt Hall is maybe different.

Well, I mean, him being the speaker, not him.

I

I think Rogers will keep the race competitive.

I think that'll mean and help keep control of the House.

Yeah.

You know, one of the things that I had the opportunity when I was doing the Detroit Morning Answer Show was to speak regularly with Speaker Matt Hall.

And I was quite taken aback that Republicans only had the House.

The Democrats had the governor's mansion and they also had the Senate.

Uh, because, uh, uh, essentially, uh, what you don't know about this is, is, uh, Winnie Brinks, the, uh, uh, Jocelyn Benson's running mate, is the, uh, is the head of the Senate in the state legislature.

She had the opportunity to send a gas tax suspension to Matt Hall, the Speaker of the House, Republican Speaker of the House, and she didn't do it.

They had the opportunity to lower your gas taxes, and they didn't do it.

You know why? Because they want you to have pain at the pump, 'cause they think it helps them electorally.

So, um, a couple people threw their hats in the ring.

Um, Matt Hall and a few other people in Lansing were not real happy with the choices of the people who were getting in, and a bunch of people from Lansing reached out to me and said, "Hey, Brian, we could really use a MAGA voice here in the state legislature.

Would you be interested in running?" Long story short, I talked it over with my family, tossed my hat in the ring, and I was resoundingly rejected by the-

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But the folks who have have gone out and are in favor.

House Speaker Matt Hall is one of them, Senate Minority Leader Eric Nesbitt.

I've spoken to a Republican consultant, Dennis Lennox.

He's written quite a few op-eds regarding vote yes.

Now, again, You know, what's the issue with just opening it up and taking a look? Some people may say nothing.

Some people are of the belief that there is too much in the Constitution right now.

I believe that that was actually something that House Speaker Matt Hall had noted, was that he believed that there was too much going on in the Constitution right now that we might need to strip some things out or,

you know,

Well, this kind of brings me into a question.

I'll just make one more kind of prediction, or maybe it's not necessarily a prediction, but a question I have for these gubernatorial candidates in particular is, do you honor the road funding deal between Governor Gretchen Whitmer and State House Speaker Matt Hall that was created and signed into law last year? Because I think right now we hear a lot of talk about maybe a possible gas tax suspension, the future of the new wholesale tax on cannabis.

And all of those things can have an impact in the dollar that is produced from that road funding deal.

And that kind of brings me into something that I wanted to ask you all.

Yeah, I think that the bill actually going to the House either recently or would propose in order to allow basically you can repair your own equipment.

So luckily that seems to have some bipartisan support from Speaker of the House Matt Hall and his team doing great things in Lansing.

I don't know much about seed or What was the term? Fertilizer? I know fertilizer.

It was seed and fertilizer consolidation.