Re-elected U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-Bloomfield Township) has been tasked with a big assignment: for the 2022 election cycle – he’s been named the chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, a two-year gig that is the Senate Democrats’ fundraising arm. Despite being known for having a low, “professorial” profile, he has definitely been a prodigious fundraiser, having won a return to his Senate seat this past November, raising $52 million, in the battle with the v

The Michigan GOP Party held its convention the weekend of February 6, and by all counts, it was a doozy. Don’t think you want to invite outgoing party chair Laura Cox and newly-elected party chair Ron Weiser to the same soiree – to say there’s bad blood between the two may be an understatement. Weiser held the top post of state party leadership and fundraising twice before, in 2009-2011, and 2017-2019, and decided to run for the top spot once again, this time with co-chair Me

Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer finally has a Republican challenger for 2022 – Austin Chenge, who immigrated to the U.S. in 2008 from Nigeria, and has lived in Grand Rapids since. A product and software design entrepreneur, he has never held public office, and told Michigan Public Radio he wants to “be a breath of fresh air” for Michigan, has visited every county in the state, and was motivated to run against the well-funded governor, who currently has a war chest of $3.

Former Michigan House member Tim Greimel (D-Auburn Hills) moved to the city of Pontiac last July and has now thrown his hat into the ring for mayor of the city, running in the non-partisan election this year against incumbent mayor Deidre Waterman. Greimel, a lawyer who holds a masters in public policy from U of M, had spent time as a school board member and county commissioner before entering the Michigan House of Representatives after a special election in 2012, was term li

Michigan state Representative John Reilly (R-Oakland Township) is serving his last two years, thanks to term limits, so one would expect candidates announcing early to take his spot in the 2022 election. But Melissa Carone, the voter fraud crank who made headlines internationally (and garnered a Saturday Night Live parody, no less) with her slurred-speech testimony last December before a state House oversight panel looking into November balloting allegations? Yep. She has now

If you thought the legal skirmishes over Michigan’s term limits had ended with the dismissal this past January by U.S. District Judge Janet Neff of Grand Rapids of a lawsuit challenging the 1992 voter-approved amendment to the state Constitution (Proposal B) would be the last word, think again. A bi-partisan group of 10 former state legislators, including former Oakland County state Senator Mike Kowall (R-White Lake), filed suit in November 2019 challenging term limits, calle

The time-worn idiom seems custom made for two Michigan GOP members of the U.S. House who voted in favor of impeaching ex-prez Donald Trump weeks ago. First there is Rep. Fred Upton from western Michigan, who was censured by Republican officials in both Cass County and Allegan County. The other Republican House member is Peter Meijer of the Meijer retail family, the only freshman among the 10 GOP members who voted with Democrats to proceed with with impeachment. Meijer was abl

“Turncoat” Republicans aren’t the only politicians with targets on their back heading into 2022. According to numerous political reports, the National Republican Congressional Committee has a list of 47 Democratic incumbents they are looking to take down in next year’s midterm election as they seek to return the House of Representatives to the Republican fold – including 29 districts that either didn’t back President Joe Biden, or supported their incumbent representative by f

Those in the know are concerned that another Democratic seat could be lost in 2022 – but due to redistricting. It’s known that because of population loss, Michigan will lose one seat. While the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission is hard at work, the 2020 U.S. Census has been delayed from releasing its critical information, from December 31 until at least April 30, meaning population totals and other necessary info won’t be shared with the committee – creat

Former state Rep. Mike McCready (R-Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, Bloomfield Township) has a new gig as the city of Novi’s Economic Development Director. McCready had been named Oakland County’s Director of Economic Development and Community Affairs by former county exec L. Brooks Patterson in early 2019, after he was term-limited, due to votes he had cast as a state lawmaker that were not supported by labor leaders, the newly-Democratic board of commissioners refused to confi