Gov. Rick Snyder
Gov. Rick Snyder said recently he won't be running for president in 2016.
So what now?
Lindsay Vanhulle reports for Crain's Detroit Business and Bridge Magazine that some analysts and political writers are speculating that a "Cabinet post may be Snyder's ultimate endgame. Snyder, however, will neither confirm nor deny he wants one. He said only that he will stay on the national speaking circuit, and that he's proud of Michigan's successes.
"I will continue to tell Michigan's comeback story nationally because our reinvention should not be unique to just our state," he said.
Just how much the embarrassing defeat of Proposal 1 impacts his political capital is unclear.
But the article states:
Snyder won't be able to build name recognition nationally if he's stuck at home dealing with this unresolved road-funding plan, said Ron Fournier, a columnist with the Washington-based National Journal.
"He's got to get this infrastructure thing straightened out," Fournier said. "That was a big blow to him."
