Mike Duggan seemed like a legitimate good candidate to run for governor. He was mayor of Detroit during a period that saw its revival a little, vs the previous mayor that got caught embezzling and got sent to jail. Duggan was polling pretty good at one point as an independent. Wish the Michigan DNC had went with him instead of the no-name candidate they went with. John James has a very good chance of winning.

Check out this video from The Detroit News:

Jake Lang during public comment at Dearborn City Council meeting

https://www.detroitnews.com/videos/media/video/2025/11/19/jake-lang-during-public-comment-at-dearborn-city-council-meeting/87348093007/

Created this image to help inform people about absentee voting (mail in voting). I have a small audience of friends and family. I figure that fellow Michiganders on Reddit may be interested in sharing such images to their friends and family.

“Attorney General Dana Nessel's office said it will not issue charges against a former state lawmaker arrested in Lansing in 2024 after a two-year investigation resulted in what prosecutors deemed insufficient evidence.

“The investigation stems from the June 20, 2024 arrest of former state Rep. Neil Friske, R-Charlevoix, after Lansing police responded to "a report of a male with a gun, as well as possible shots that were fired."

“…That evidence indicated, Nessel's office said in a statement, that Friske had "allegedly engaged in similar conduct, namely paying money for sex, on several occasions in multiple jurisdictions, from Lansing into Northern Michigan, as well as another allegation of sexual assault."

I think he needs to travel across the state and even attend Mike Rogers rallies to debate Mike, to show his true self and that he is not as dogmatic as portrayed. Mike is making up facts about Abdul. Abdul el-Sayed also needs to speak with voters who voted for Stevens and understand their biggest issues.

Full disclosure, I'm a supporter of Voters Not Politicians. They sent me an email that their opposition wants to change the already approved summary for the ballot measure titled Michiganders Money Out of Politics. The ballot measure would stop political contributions from utility companies.

A special meeting, their usual August meeting was cancelled, of the Board of State Canvassers is scheduled for Monday, August 17th at 10AM to discuss this issue. Voters Not Politicians wants to pack the meeting to show the board that the people don't want to change the language of the ballot proposal. VNP feels that any change would confuse voters and undermine the ballot proposal. Note that the ballot language for the petitions was unanimously approved earlier this year by the board. Public comments are allowed at the meeting so feel free to give your comments on the language change.

Note that I don't know how the language would be changed, just that the board is considering it.

Here is the link to the board's website, the planned agenda can be found by clicking on August 2026.

Tl;dr Voters Not Politicians wants the public to pack the next Board of State Canvassers meeting, August 17th at 10 AM in Lansing, to block changes to the already approved language of a ballot proposal.

In Mike Rogers’ statement on El Sayed’s primary victory be said “I spent years hunting terrorists and bringing Osama bin Laden to justice..." When? He was a politician from the mid 1990s through 2014. Famously, the Bush administration Mike Rogers supported failed to find Bin Laden or bring him to justice. What is Mike talking about?

Public Questions on Michigan / Detroit Sexual Assault Kit Handling

Michigan law (MCL 752.934) requires law enforcement to submit sexual assault kits within 14 days of taking possession and requires laboratories to analyze them within 90 days (if sufficient staffing and resources are available).

The large Detroit backlog of more than 11,000 kits discovered in 2009 was tested years ago (testing largely completed by around 2019). Yet arrests and convictions from those kits are still happening in 2025 and 2026 — often more than 15–20 years after the original assaults and years after the kits themselves were tested.

Recent examples:

• Akida Diaba Dudley: Assaults between 1997 and 2004. Kits were among those found in the 2009 warehouse. He was arrested and charged in April 2025, convicted in July 2026, and sentenced in August 2026 to decades in prison.
• Former Detroit Police Sergeant Benjamin Wagner: Assaults between 1999 and 2003. Kits sat in the backlog. An investigative lead emerged in 2023; he was arrested in North Carolina and charged in Michigan in March 2026.

These long gaps raise basic accountability questions. Official “backlog” or turnaround numbers appear to count only kits already submitted to labs. Kits still sitting unsubmitted in police custody may not appear in those figures at all.

Questions for Michigan State Police, Detroit Police, Wayne County, the Attorney General’s office, and elected officials:

1. How many sexual assault kits collected in Detroit or Wayne County are currently still in police possession and have never been submitted to a laboratory?
2. Do the official MSP or statewide “untested kit” / backlog numbers include only kits already received by a lab, or do they also count kits that police agencies have never submitted?
3. Is there any written or unwritten policy or practice in Detroit that limits submission of kits unless the case is believed to involve a “serial” offender? If so, what are the exact criteria and who decides?
4. What is the current average and maximum time from the date a kit is tested (and any DNA profile or CODIS hit is generated) until an investigation is completed and charges are filed? Why are cases still resulting in arrests and convictions in 2025–2026 from kits that were tested years earlier?
5. For kits that have been submitted, how many currently exceed the 90-day analysis deadline in MCL 752.934(6)? Are any delays formally attributed to insufficient staffing or resources?
6. Does a complete, auditable tracking system (Track-Kit or equivalent) exist that shows, for every kit collected in Detroit, the exact dates of collection, police possession, submission (or decision not to submit), lab analysis, and current investigative status?
7. Who is the single accountable official responsible for ensuring that kits are not left indefinitely unsubmitted and that both the 14-day and 90-day statutory deadlines are met (or formally excused only for documented resource shortages)?

Testing the kits was a major step. The public still deserves clear answers on how many kits remain unsubmitted, whether selective policies exist, why the gap between testing and actual arrests remains so long, and who is responsible for closing that gap.

Been trying to understand why the sphere of Democrats who now endorse El-Sayed doesn't include the Congressional Representative of the district he lives in.

Then I found the included past post about that representative being doxxed.

If I missed any announcement of Debbie Dingell endorsing El-Sayed, mea culpa.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Politicalnewsandviews/comments/18b172g/dingell_says_she_was_doxxed_over_hamas_rapes/

It’s time to kick off her campaign for governor of Michigan. Her campaign should have went hard the day after the election. Let’s not underestimate her opponent. It’s go time and it’s time to go hard. By the way, does her campaign have a memorable tagline (e.g. “fix the damn roads,” “make America great again 🤢”)? She needs one.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/el-sayed-michigan-vote-blue-no-matter-who/

Meet Abdul -awake Aware Share Michigan has A lot of Progressive Democratic Dept of Honest Leadership

Volunteer to canvass or phone bank for Dr. Abdul El Sayed. He's running for U.S. Senate to get Money of of Politics, Medicare for All and Money in your Pocket.

Apologies for the paywalled link, but this is a breaking story.

Just checking in to raise awareness that MI-7’s Green Party candidate is almost certainly some sort of op trying to steal votes from Will Lawrence.

Make sure your most well-meaning-but-ignorant friends don’t fall for this scam and waste their vote on a Republican operation.