MONEY SAYS IT ALL

Neither the Michigan Republican Party nor one of its co-chairs, millionaire Ron Weiser, are admitting any wrongdoing. But the U of M regent has donated $200,000 from his personal funds to the state GOP to allow the party to resolve a complaint, filed by former GOP Chairwoman Laura Cox, that Weiser paid that same amount from state party funds to Stan Grot, Shelby Township clerk, to not seek the secretary of state position at the party’s 2018 convention. The SOS was investigating the complaint as a violation of the state Campaign Finance Act and the party payment of the fine to the elections division brings the investigation to a halt.