"I'd do a check with Grover." [View all]

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And here's Kerry Bentivolio, the congressman-elect from Milford who will take office Jan. 3 in former Rep. Thaddeus McCotter's district:

"I signed the pledge, and I intend to honor that," Bentivolio said in a phone conversation late Friday. Asked whether he would vote for a deal that matched every dollar in tax increases with $10 in spending cuts, Bentivolio hedged only a little.

"I'd do a check with Grover. I'd ask his opinion before I did anything else, because I like the way he thinks."

http://www.freep.com/article/20121202/OPINION01/312020134/Editorial-The-problem-with-THE-PLEDGE-Michigan-Republicans-dancing-to-Grover-Norquist-s-tune-could-take-their-constituents-over-the-fiscal-cliff