With less than a month before the primary election, the gloves came off in a GOP debate, with one candidate arguing another is “bought and paid for” by “the DeVos empire,” and another suggesting a bold tax cut plan is a mirage.
2022 Michigan election
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Michigan abortion-rights ballot measure has 800k signatures, organizer says
The campaign collected almost twice the required number of valid signatures for the issue to appear on the November ballot, said campaign co-chair Linh Song.
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Ban gay marriage, two Michigan GOP governor candidates say at debate
With Roe overturned, two candidates for Michigan governor want the Supreme Court to overturn a same-sex marriage decision and reinstate a dormant state ban.
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Michigan Republicans want penalties for school drag shows, can’t cite example
‘I don’t think that we need to have a problem occur in the state of Michigan before we address it,” one sponsor says.
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Watch Bridge’s Lunch Break about Michigan’s 2022 election
Bridge Michigan’s Capitol reporting team discussed hotly contested races, ballot initiatives, the potential impact of the state’s new electoral maps, candidate filing fiascos, the potential impact of Supreme Court decisions and more in this roundtable event.
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Drag queens and MAGA: Tudor Dixon fights culture wars in Michigan governor bid
From zombie flicks to fights over ‘sexualizing’ children and school equity initiatives, Tudor Dixon has suddenly become the GOP establishment’s pick for Michigan governor.
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Michigan abortion ballot issue gets surge in volunteers, signatures
Reproductive Freedom for All, a ballot measure to codify abortion rights into Michigan’s Constitution, says it’s experienced a surge in interest since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe.
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Opinion | Michigan’s partisan gerrymander is gone. Next: partisan canvassing boards
The 2020 elections made clear that political parties, through the state’s archaic canvassing boards, exert potentially dangerous control over Michigan’s process for certifying results.
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Roe overturned: See where Michigan governor, attorney general candidates stand
Republicans cheer the reversal of Roe v. Wade, while Democrats work to negate a 1931 law that would make the procedure a felony.
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Michigan Democrats lobby to move up state’s primary
A coalition of Democrats, as well as a few Republicans, are lobbying once again to increase the state’s clout in the primaries.