Michigan's Republican Candidates for Governor

[jimhines]

Got my absentee ballot for the August primaries, and I was curious about the five Republican candidates for governor. So I checked out an article on Bridge. And now I’m depressed.

Tudor Dixon: “…criticized Whitmer’s COVID-19 policies as a form of “tyranny” and aligned herself with Trump, who appeared at a recent fundraiser she threw at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.”

Ryan Kelley: “…protested removal of a Confederate statue in his hometown and organized a large anti-Whitmer protest at the Michigan Capitol that resulted in armed demonstrators entering the building … urged federal authorities to “arrest” Whitmer for her COVID-19 policies … called for a “forensic audit” of the 2020 election and was outside the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riots.”

Ralph Rebandt: “…appeared at rallies demanding a “forensic audit” of the 2020 election … supports a no-exception ban on abortion.”

Kevin Rinke: …wants to “repair the state’s education system and stop “indoctrination” of kids … said he “had not seen anything to indicate there was fraud” in the 2020 presidential election but has since run television ads making the false claim that “dead people always vote” for Democrats.”

Garrett Soldano: “…built his campaign around support for personal freedoms and opposition to pandemic policies like vaccine mandates … made national news in February when he said he thinks women who are raped should not have abortions because “that little baby inside them might be the next president.””

Ryan Kelley and Ralph Rebandt have also said they want to ban same-sex marriage.

I’ve written and deleted several paragraphs, so I’ll just say this. I know that “just vote” isn’t enough. But please do vote this fall. Preferably for candidates who aren’t spreading repeatedly-debunked lies, fanning the flames of violence, and salivating at the chance to strip away other people’s rights.

Comments

[wild_patience]

That is so depressing. The Republican party has become the party of looney tunes only without the fun sense of whimsey.

These people must really hate women. A "no exceptions" abortion ban? Two percent of all pregnancies are ectopic. That means one in every fifty pregnant persons is going to die when their fallopian tube ruptures. Maybe they can save all of them, operating at the last minute and using up the nation's blood supply on a preventable emergency.

I've read a couple accounts of women whose wanted babies died in utero and without access to abortion, they had to carry the dead fetus to full-term and pray the toxins did not kill them before them. Debbie Reynolds wrote of this in The Choices We Made. Besides the health risk, there is the emotional trauma of people not knowing the baby died and still asking the mother when it's due, what name they've picked out, etc.

In the news now is the 10-year-old rape victim who was denied an abortion because she was 6 weeks and 3 days pregnant. How do they expect a 10-year-old child whose body is not fully formed to push out a baby? What a horrible, horrible trauma to put her through on top of the rape.

[dewline]

The United States needs - among many other things - their own spiritual counterpart to the Rhinoceros Party.

And as to those other vital things...the endurance of horrors now being demanded by the "modern slavers in drag as champions of freedom" is worthy only of being refused and resisted.

[laurenthemself]

This is sickening. I hope they can be kept out of office.

[solarbird]

At least you're paying attention to primaries.

I've been begging people to pay attention to local elections and primaries for ages, just like all the other things I've tried.

Nothing sinks in. The US will denial its way straight into fascism.