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A group trying to repeal the state’s prevailing wage law is scrapping the roughly 390,000 signatures it’s collected and starting over.
The group, Protecting Michigan Taxpayers, says there were too many duplicate signatures on its first petition drive, which cost $1.5 million.
It will not be using the same signature-collecting firm again.
Earlier this week a group on the other side of the issue challenged the signatures claiming Protect Michigan Taxpayers was roughly 25,000 signatures short of the 252,000 needed to put the proposal before the legislature.
The state’s prevailing wage laws require workers on publicly funded projects be paid union wages and benefits.
