Past and present Governor candidates from Michigan: on Government Reform


Abdul El-Sayed: Fundamental right to be heard at the ballot box

Voting is an essential component of our democracy, and yet many Michiganders lack access to this fundamental right because of voter ID laws and lack of access to polling places. I want to make sure that all Michiganders have a chance for their voices to be heard at the ballot box.
Source: 2018 Michigan Governor campaign website AbdulForMichigan.com Mar 21, 2018

Abdul El-Sayed: Strict separation of church and state

I demand the strict separation of church and state, and would seek to uphold and defend that separation. I will defend the right of all Americans to pray as they choose to pray (or not to pray), just as I will oppose any discrimination by businesses and public institutions against our LGBTQ community.
Source: 2018 Michigan Gubernatorial website AbdulForMichigan.com Nov 1, 2017

Gretchen Whitmer: Promote universal voter access

It is too hard to register and to vote in Michigan. Everyone who applies for a driver's license or state ID should be automatically registered to vote, and any registered voters should be able to vote absentee or by mail. As a legislator, I fought to ensure valid ballots from our service members overseas were counted, to prevent voters from being turned away at the polls, and to allow same-day voter registration.
Source: 2018 Michigan Gubernatorial website GretchenWhitmer.com Nov 1, 2017

Marcia Squier: Dem. superdelegates cheated Michigan voters of their choice

[Marcia Squier's posting on CrowdPAC.com, "Why you should support Marcia Squier"]: I had never belonged to any party, but had been an active voter for over 20 years. I joined the green party in the summer of 2016, after it was revealed that the Democratic Party had a solid candidate for president, but they cheated him at every level imaginable. I ran as a green party candidate against a superdelegate in Congress who, along with every other Michigan superdelegate, voted unanimously against the candidate [Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-VT] who won the Michigan democratic primaries. I felt like Michigan's voice didn't matter because each superdelegate vote negated tens of thousands of votes.
Source: CrowdPAC editorial for 2018 Michigan gubernatorial race Jul 13, 2017

Rick Snyder: Vetoed voter identification bill

Tea party conservatives criticize the first-term governor for vetoing a voter identification bill, proposing higher fees and taxes to fix Michigan roads, and supporting an Obama administration bailout of the auto industry early in the term.

Snyder, finishing the third year of his first four-year term in the only political office he's ever held, says he's neither RINO nor radical, but a governor who's doing what he can to turn the state's economy fully to the positive. "I'm a person that doesn't get overly focused on politics," Snyder said. "I don't spend time worrying about what the far right or the far left thinks. It's really a case of, 'Here's a problem, here's common sense, here's a solution.'"

Source: Macomb Daily on 2014 Michigan Governor race Dec 10, 2013

  • The above quotations are from Winners and Losers
    Gubernatorial candidates from Michigan.
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Candidates and political leaders on Government Reform:

Retired Senate as of Jan. 2015:
GA:Chambliss(R)
IA:Harkin(D)
MI:Levin(D)
MT:Baucus(D)
NE:Johanns(R)
OK:Coburn(R)
SD:Johnson(D)
WV:Rockefeller(D)

Resigned from 113th House:
AL-1:Jo Bonner(R)
FL-19:Trey Radel(R)
LA-5:Rod Alexander(R)
MA-5:Ed Markey(D)
MO-9:Jo Ann Emerson(R)
NC-12:Melvin Watt(D)
SC-1:Tim Scott(R) 		Retired House to run for Senate or Governor:
AR-4:Tom Cotton(R)
GA-1:Jack Kingston(R)
GA-10:Paul Broun(R)
GA-11:Phil Gingrey(R)
HI-1:Colleen Hanabusa(D)
IA-1:Bruce Braley(D)
LA-6:Bill Cassidy(R)
ME-2:Mike Michaud(D)
MI-14:Gary Peters(D)
MT-0:Steve Daines(R)
OK-5:James Lankford(R)
PA-13:Allyson Schwartz(D)
TX-36:Steve Stockman(R)
WV-2:Shelley Capito(R) 		Retired House as of Jan. 2015:
AL-6:Spencer Bachus(R)
AR-2:Tim Griffin(R)
CA-11:George Miller(D)
CA-25:Howard McKeon(R)
CA-33:Henry Waxman(D)
CA-45:John Campbell(R)
IA-3:Tom Latham(R)
MN-6:Michele Bachmann(R)
NC-6:Howard Coble(R)
NC-7:Mike McIntyre(D)
NJ-3:Jon Runyan(R)
NY-4:Carolyn McCarthy(D)
NY-21:Bill Owens(D)
PA-6:Jim Gerlach(R)
UT-4:Jim Matheson(D)
VA-8:Jim Moran(D)
VA-10:Frank Wolf(R)
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