“Bickering never solved anything”, Rick Snyder says in his new commercial which began airing on 5/22. The Ann Arbor businessman turned Republican Gubernatorial candidate takes Republican opponents Pete Hoekstra and Mike Cox to task for their heated exchanges during the campaign. According to the Detroit Free Press, Snyder spokesman Jake Suski said Snyder’s aim was [...]

Rick, Of the five candidates running for the Republican nomination for Governor, you are the only one who can make the argument about having the business experience necessary to help fix Michigan’s economy. Yet you’ve decided to skip the 2 remaining televised debates sponsored by the Michigan Republican Party. I urge you to reconsider. Yes, [...]

Tim Skubick, a veteran journalist covering Michigan politics, writes on myFOXdetroit.com that Attorney General Mike Cox is employing a campaign strategy “to bleed all the money out of the Pete Hoekstra campaign before the August 3rd primary” by going negative early and often. Brian Dickerson, a Detroit Free Press columnist, has similar observations, stating “Cox [...]

US Representative Pete Hoekstra isn’t amused by Mike Cox’s attack ads, and is fighting back with his own television ad campaign. His TV ads began airing on cable and broadcast stations all across Michigan this morning, a Hoekstra spokesman said, and is expected to continue for at least a week. “He wants to be the [...]

Rick Snyder has a lot of things going for him in the upcoming Gubernatorial election. He’s a successful businessman, and is the only candidate with serious credentials on “creating jobs”. And he’s not a politician in a time when distrust in government is at record levels. So I’d think he’d want to highlight the differences [...]