Speaking of economic development

I like Randy Richardville, our new state senator. In fact, while he was most recently the city of Monroe's economic development guy, he had the wherewithal and wisdom to attract new businesses to town to settle in PORT AREA land (rather than residential neighborhoods).
He's a very capable person, but he seems to have one small, bizarre, affliction: Whenever he realizes he's made a mistake in co-sponsoring or introducing rotten legislation and he's called on it, he claims he's not really backing the legislation, he's only introducing it to spur debate.
He most recently used the gimmick when he was asked about why he would want to repeal legislation that requires freighters to get state permits assuring that they dumped their possibly-invasive-species-laden ballast water before entering the Great Lakes.
I'm sure once the debate plays out, Randy will work to kill the bill he unwittingly attached his name to.