2018 MI Governor's race: on Crime


Bill Schuette: Prosecute 17-year-olds as adults

Q: Prosecute all 17-year-olds as adults & house with adult criminals?

Bill Schuette (R): Yes.

Gretchen Whitmer (D): Unknown. Prioritize rehabilitation efforts for first-time offenders.

Source: 2018 CampusElect.org Issue Guide on Michigan Governor race Oct 9, 2018

Gretchen Whitmer: Prioritize rehabilitation efforts for first-time offenders

Q: Prosecute all 17-year-olds as adults & house with adult criminals?

Bill Schuette (R): Yes.

Gretchen Whitmer (D): Unknown. Prioritize rehabilitation efforts for first-time offenders.

Source: 2018 CampusElect.org Issue Guide on Michigan Governor race Oct 9, 2018

Bill Schuette: History of getting justice for rape victims

Bill Schuette fought for victims of violent crime and won. Schuette got justice for rape victims by finding funding to test abandoned evidence kits, track down the rapists and prosecute them. And, Bill has helped recover millions in back child support for children in need.
Source: 2018 Michigan Governor campaign website BillSchuette.com Aug 31, 2018

Abdul El-Sayed: Move from prison to productive citizenship

The growth of Michigan's prison system has created a volatile prison environment that harms prisoners as well as corrections officers, staff, and communities. Michigan has an incarceration rate 11% higher than the national average. More importantly, Michigan's incarceration rates for African-Americans compared to white Americans remains far higher than the national average (6.6:1 compared to 5:1 nationally). Yet, our crime rates are not lower and our communities are not safer.
    As governor, I will commit to reforming the Michigan criminal justice system through five policy priorities:
  1. Reducing sentence length
  2. Reducing the prison population
  3. Improving prison conditions
  4. Supporting returning citizens
  5. Improving hiring and training standards for police to end police violence.
By targeting these areas, we can move more Michiganders from prison to productive citizenship, while reducing the biases that undermine our systems of criminal justice and law enforcement.
Source: 2018 Michigan Governor campaign website AbdulForMichigan.com Mar 21, 2018

Gretchen Whitmer: Cleaned up County Prosecutor office after a sex scandal

Whitmer served for twelve years in the State House and Senate. Whitmer, who most recently served for six months as Ingham County Prosecutor after the former prosecutor was arrested in a sex scandal, says she cleaned up that office and has big picture plans for Michigan.

Whitmer says she holds state government mostly accountable for a lack of oversight in the Flint water crisis and says that kind of thing would not have happened on her watch.

Source: WWMT-Newschannel-3 on 2018 Michigan Gubernatorial race Jan 24, 2017

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Gubernatorial Debates 2020:
DE: vs.Carney(incumbent) vs.Williams(D)
IN: vs.Holcomb(incumbent) vs.Melton(D) vs.Myers(D)
MO: Parson(incumbent) vs.Galloway(D) vs.Neely(R)
MT: Bullock(retiring) vs.Fox(R) vs.Perry(R) vs.Gianforte(R) vs.Stapleton(R) vs.Olszewski(R) vs.Neill(D) vs.Schreiner(D) vs.Cooney(D) vs.Williams(D)
NC: Cooper(incumbent) vs.Forest(R) vs.Grange(R)
ND: Burgum(incumbent) vs.Coachman(R) vs.Lenz(D)
NH: Sununu(incumbent) vs.Volinsky(D) vs. fsFeltes(D)
PR: Rossello(D) vs.Garced(D) vs.Pierluisi(D)
UT: Herbert(retiring) vs.Huntsman(R) vs.Cox(R) vs.Burningham(R) vs.Newton(D) vs.Hughes(R)
VT: Scott(incumbent) vs.Holcombe(D) vs.Zuckerman(D)
WA: Inslee(incumbent) vs.Bryant(R) vs.Fortunato(R)
WV: Justice(incumbent) vs.Folk(R) vs.Thrasher(R) vs.Vanover(D) vs.Smith(D) vs.Ron Stollings(D)
Gubernatorial Debates 2021:
NJ:
Murphy(D) vs.Ciattarelli(R)
VA:
Northam(D,term-limited) vs.Herring(D) vs.Chase(R) vs.Fairfax(D)

Gubernatorial Debates 2019:
KY:
Bevin(R) vs.Goforth(R,lost primary) vs.Adkins(D,lost primary) vs.Beshear(D) vs.Edelen(D,lost primary)
LA:
Edwards(D) vs.Rispone(R) vs.Abraham(R) vs.Kennedy(R,declined)
MS:
Bryant(R,retiring) vs.Foster(R) vs.Hood(D) vs.Reeves(R) vs.Waller(R)
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