MONICA WHO?

The race for Republican candidate for Secretary of State has a new candidate, with Monica Yatooma of Commerce Township announcing in early September that she was “officially in the race.” Yatooma said, “I’m a Christian, mom, and activist, born in Detroit to legal immigrants and blessed with the opportunity to start my own business, learning firsthand how to solve difficult problems, prevent fraud, and root out inefficiencies.” A businesswoman, she owns a hazardous waste removal company called Metro Detroit Medical Waste and co-founded a grassroots advocacy organization, the Great Education Initiative, that works to strengthen parents’ rights and local control within the school system and is an “advocacy organization that helped parents take back school board seats across Michigan.” She said she first became motivated to act “when our children’s future was at stake during the COVID-19 lockdowns and ensuing mask mandates, I stepped up and fought back.” An avid Trump supporter and 2020 election denier. Yatooma’s push for the party nomination may well create a showdown between two MAGA contenders, assuming that former gubernatorial contender Tudor Dixon announces for SOS as we were told last month. We circled back with our GOP source who contends that a Dixon announcement will still happen.

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