100 Percent Fed Up It was announced yesterday that five MI GOP gubernatorial candidates would be prevented from appearing on the primary election ballot in August. Two of the candidates whose ballot signatures are in question are the party’s top contenders, former Detroit Police Chief James Craig and self-made billionaire businessman Perry Johnson.
Craig’s campaign faces two challenges — one from a Michigan resident represented by lawyer and former Michigan Democratic Party Chair Mark Brewer and another from Michigan Strong PAC, a conservative group supporting GOP gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon’s campaign.
The complaint filed by Brewer alleges that of the signatures Craig filed, nearly 7,000 signatures were forged, over 300 were duplicates, nearly 200 came from nonregistered voters, 30 came from deceased voters, and nearly 2,000 were otherwise defective. As a result, Craig failed to file sufficient signatures to appear on the August primary ballot, the complaint asserts…
