Where Michigan governor candidates stand on fixing the roads — Road plan: Schuette has not released a road plan — Says his plan would raise: Undetermined. Schuette did not place a dollar figure on how much his roads plan would generate. — Quote: “Life’s about priorities,” Schuette said during a Republican debate in Detroit. “We need to make Michigan a …
July 12, 2018
Brain Calley has jabbed the front runner, Attorney General Bill Schuette, about purportedly politicizing his prosecutions of Snyder officials in the Flint water crisis investigation. He has criticized Schuette for selling inherited property in the Virgin Islands that supposedly violated his “blind trust” promise. And he has chided the attorney general for using staff to …
July 12, 2018
“As the state’s elected consumer protection advocate, AG Schuette has a responsibility to protect Michigan families,” said [Rep.] Dianda. “Frankly I am surprised he has not opened an investigation already. Instead of using his position to advocate for our hardworking families and seniors, too often we have seen he uses it for grandstanding in his …
May 31, 2018
Republican Dennis Lennox: What to watch in Mackinac gov debate — Expect Calley to continue his scorched-earth strategy, though it’s tough to imagine what else — besides the kitchen sink — the lieutenant governor can throw at Schuette. — [Calley] has used lies and gross distortions in a rather desperate attempt to defeat Schuette. — The …
May 31, 2018
Medicaid Recipients from Detroit, Flint blast Schuette’s plan to cut healthcare More than 100 low-income voters from Detroit and Flint will flood GOP gubernatorial candidate Bill Schuette’s state office Thursday, holding a “die-in” to protest his plan to cut healthcare for nearly 700,000 people who rely on the state’s expanded Medicaid program enacted under Republican …
May 31, 2018
I read the memoirs of Michigan governor candidates so you don’t have to Schuette does as good a job as any of his critics of portraying himself as a blueblood Republican and career politician. Schuette is now touting the endorsement of President Donald Trump, but the 2015 memoir was released before the New York City …
May 29, 2018
— The crush of Democratic candidates is motivated in part by Republican President Donald Trump and the policies of the GOP-controlled Congress. — Three of the 19 women running for the U.S. House in Michigan are Republicans . . . A majority of Michigan’s 200 female state candidates are also Democrats. — “I’ve had so many …
May 29, 2018
Skubick: New poll finds gap in voter motivation 13 percent more Democratic women are eager to vote than their counterparts in the Republican Party. And the same holds true along party lines as 63 percent of the Democrats are eager to vote while 53 percent of the Republicans say the same thing, a ten-point gap. …
May 29, 2018
Too ambitious? That’s in the past, AG Schuette says “From using taxpayer funds to pay for campaign field staff to using state employees to execute millions of dollars in offshore real estate deals while on the taxpayers’ time, Bill Schuette repeatedly used the Attorney General’s Office for personal and political gain,” Calley campaign spokesman Michael …
May 25, 2018
Schuette financial disclosure shows assets total $13M — Schuette reported $6.5 million in the blind trusts. — He also listed “non-blind” assets . . . including two St. John parcels for sale for $4 million total, a one-third interest in an inherited family home on St. John shared with his two sisters and a $211,000 …
May 25, 2018
Schuette disclosures offer view inside Dow inheritance — But just how much Schuette ultimately paid in taxes for at least $2.4 million in proceeds from 2012 and 2013 land sales is unclear because he has not disclosed tax records from the trusts. Schuette’s campaign did not respond to a request by Crain’s to release the …
May 25, 2018
Brian Calley says Bill Schuette once supported abortion A 1990 Detroit News article referenced a 1984 interview Schuette gave to the newspaper where he was quoted as saying the decision to abort is “best made between the parties involved and their medical and religious advisers,’ although he added he personally opposed abortions and public spending …
May 24, 2018
Michigan House OKs plan to let industry officials help oversee environmental rules Environmentalists have likened the proposal to the proverbial “fox guarding the henhouse,” but GOP lawmakers and business groups contend it would add oversight to decisions made by unelected bureaucrats. . . . “Corporations are people, too,” said Rep. Tommy Brann, R-Wyoming, speaking in support …
May 23, 2018
“The rhetoric between Mr. Schuette and Calley has reached the point where it’s kind of personal,” Skubick said. “They’re killed him Shady Schuette and they’ve called him Clown Car Calley. It probably doesn’t get much worse that this, but we’ve got a long way to go before August.” Calley is chasing Schuette in the polls and wants …
May 23, 2018
Benson discusses voting rights, secretary of state campaign in Holland From her beginnings at the Southern Poverty Law Center, Jocelyn Benson has always been committed to addressing voting rights issues and protecting democracy. . . . “I was instilled with this deep commitment to address voting rights and democracy work in our country,” Benson said. “There has …
May 23, 2018
Experts hired to help defend state DEQ workers bill taxpayers $108K so far The invoices for experts are in addition to more than $87,000 billed to state taxpayers by experts retained by two top executives for the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services who have also been charged with crimes related to the water …
May 22, 2018
Gov. Snyder: How Michigan became ‘comeback state’: With Calley’s leadership, we implemented a simple, fair and efficient tax system that didn’t pick winners and losers. We made Michigan into one of the most competitive places to do business in the nation. Scrapping the MBT and instituting this new tax system put Michigan on the path to …
May 21, 2018
Kesto targets Epstein: An opponent in the 11th Congressional District Republican primary is criticizing businesswoman Lena Epstein for missing 87 percent of quarterly board meetings of the Michigan Children’s Trust Fund since 2012. “Epstein had a chance to work on the most important cause you can think of, protecting children from abuse, but she wouldn’t do the …
May 21, 2018
In fact, this legislation will cost a fiscally irresponsible estimated $30 million annually to implement. When the majority of able-bodied Medicaid recipients are already working, why would we spend taxpayer money to punish them if they don’t? Perhaps worst of all, this legislation demonstrates its sponsors are willfully ignorant of the conditions Republican policies have …
May 21, 2018
Schuette will appeal court ruling that stopped funding for nonpublic schools Rep. Sam Singh, the House Democratic leader from East Lansing, said in a statement that Schuette’s appeal puts “the interests of wealthy political donors ahead of everyday Michiganders.” “I am disappointed that instead of fighting for the families of Flint or holding Enbridge accountable for …
May 16, 2018