STATE AG RACE

Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald looks to be heading up all Democrat hopefuls seeking the party nomination for Michigan Attorney General at the party convention next year if campaign funding is any indication. From the campaign report filings at the end of October we learn that McDonald raised some $840,000 and transferred $100,000 from her county prosecutor committee, while Democrat Eli Savit, the Washtenaw County Prosecutor who early on had clerked for Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sandra Day O’Connor, brought in $300,000. Mark Totten, former U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan, hauled in $161,000 and loaned his committee $90,000. Detroit attorney William Noakes, who has just entered the nomination contest, had no report on file. For the two Republicans who have formally announced for the GOP nomination next year, Kevin Kijewski, Birmingham defense attorney and former superintendent of Catholic Schools for the Detroit Archdiocese, raised $13,000 and loaned his committee $68,000, while Easton County Prosecutor Doug Lloyd brought in $46,000 and transferred an added $15,000 from a past campaign committee.

Karen McDonald