This afternoon on Mackinac Island, the debate stage is much lighter – but not any less extreme – than it was previously. That’s because the Court of Appeals ruled that candidates would not appear on the ballot after submitting tens of thousands of forged and fraudulent signatures.
These bogus signatures were sourced from dead voters and an illegal “round robin” forging scheme in which “a small group of people sign[ing] names and addresses in turn, one per sheet, using a voter list.”
Rather than accept the consequences of their fraudulent behavior and respect the integrity of Michigan election law, every candidate but Mike Brown is refusing to drop out. Instead they continue to push the notion that they shouldn’t have to meet the same expectations of personal responsibility as every other candidate that qualified for the ballot without incident.
James Craig has even floated the possibility of restructuring his flailing campaign into a write-in effort to force his wrong-for-Michigan agenda on working families by any means necessary.
Despite their attempts to shift blame, all affirmed under penalty of perjury that “the facts contained in the [nominating petitions] set forth” were confirmed by them to be accurate and verifiable.
