Rick Snyder

A new poll by Inside Michigan Politics and the Marketing Resource Group found Attorney General Mike Cox, U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra and venture capitalist Rick Snyder in a virtual three way tie for first place with 21 percent, 21 percent and 20 percent respectively. Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard is in 4th place at only [...]

To recognize Sunshine Week, Michigan’s Attorney General and GOP candidate for governor, Mike Cox, has had an editorial published on MLive.com calling for other candidates to release their personal financial information.
Cox did so earlier this week.

An attorney for the gubernatorial campaign of Republican Rick Snyder filed an amended complaint with the Secretary of State’s election division against a group called the Michigan Civic Education Fund, (MCEF). The original complaint was filed March 3 and dismissed Tuesday.
In a letter Tuesday from Melissa Malerman, administrative law examiner of the Legal and [...]

A new poll by Denno-Noor research shows that Congressman Pete Hoekstra has 28 percent support in the GOP primary, while Ann Arbor businessman Rick Snyder is now second with 18 percent and Mike Cox, the attorney general has 12 percent. The poll shows 31 percent of voters are undecided in that primary.
The poll shows [...]

Oakland County Sheriff and GOP candidate for governor Mike Bouchard announced his government spending reform proposals in Saginaw Monday.
According to a press release on his campaign website, Bouchard’s proposal includes:

Former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has endorsed Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox in the Michigan Republican primary for governor.
The announcement was made on Cox’s gubernatorial campaign website. From the release:

If you went to any rally featuring candidate Barack Obama, you know the event started with a campaign staffer standing on stage and directing people to take out their cell phones and text a message to a number in order to get updates by text.
That has become pretty standard operation now for political campaigns, [...]

The campaign of Ann Arbor businessman Rick Snyder has filed two complaints with the Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land and Attorney General Mike Cox alleging that groups behind a series of attack ads are violating Michigan’s Campaign Finance Law.
Snyder attorney Daniel Carlson filed the complaints Tuesday against Eagle Strategies and the Michigan Civic [...]

Former Congressman Joe Schwarz says he is leaning towards an independent run for the governor’s office this year. He is expected to make an announcement this week, and the Battle Creek Enquirer reports that announcement could come as soon as Wednesday.
“I’m leaning toward doing it,” Schwarz, 72, told the Enquirer.

Perhaps demonstrating the power of widely seen campaign commercials, venture capitalist Rick Snyder is making his move in the campaign for the Republican nomination for governor and is now in third place according to a new Epic/MRA poll of 400 Republican and 400 Democratic voters. The Detroit Free Press reports: