LANSING, MI (AP)-- Republicans have held the Michigan governorship and the state attorney general's office for 5½ years a feat that had been out of reach for more than six decades before Rick Snyder and Bill Schuette took office.
Given recent strife between the two, though, you could be forgiven for thinking they are of different political parties.
The friction is not limited to Schuette's high-stakes criminal and civil investigation of Flint's water crisis, for which the governor has apologized and five state employees have resigned, been fired or charged.
The men are at odds over a federal directive related to transgender students, school employee retirement deductions, U.S. pollution regulations and Great Lakes water withdrawals.
Schuette is expected to run for governor in 2018. Snyder cannot due to term limits.
