Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson's efforts to get the state of Michigan to abolish the Single Business Tax (SBT) using news conferences in his office and press releases on county letterhead have come under fire by Oakland County Commissioner David Woodward of Royal Oak , who is chairman of the county Democratic Party . He contends that use of county resources to advance a political position and to get the issue on the ballot are illegal. But Patterson counters that what he is doing is legal, noting that his activities on behalf of the repeal campaign have been done with the assistance of county employees on their personal time. The article mentions that the Michigan Chamber of Commerce has not taken a position on the SBT proposal and that the chamber recently filed a complaint against Wayne State University for providing a Web link to a campaign to raise the minimum wage. "Since the complaint, WSU has removed the link," the article points out.