WRITE-IN EFFORT
After we encountered a cluster of political signs at an intersection in Bloomfield Township, we had to reach out to township activist David Thomas who confirmed that, yes, he is running a write-in campaign as a Republican for the office of township clerk in the upcoming general election. Thomas has been involved on a number of efforts in the township, and ran for the supervisor spot in 2016 and then for clerk in 2020 but was eliminated in the Republican primary. Thomas tells us he’s running on the issues of transparency and accountability. He wants the township checkbook to be posted online so everyone can see where every tax dollar is spent. The only other name on the ballot for clerk will be Democrat Martin Brook, the incumbent. Thomas, whose name will not be printed on the ballots, says this will be a low cost affair. Although the current mayor of Detroit did it once, and the mayor of Rochester Hills has won three times as a write-in, those were big dollar efforts.
