Apple Blossom Bulletin

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[Apple Blossom Bulletin @AppleBlossomMI]

Longtime far-right activist Amy Hawkins published a Substack post last month in which she directly likened abortion & affirmation of trans kids to the Holocaust.

What's wilder: Hawkins is the campaign manager for Anthony Forlini, GOP nominee for Secretary of State.

[Distill Social @DistillSocial]

U-M College Republicans are now distancing themselves from Iman Dashti, the student featured in Mike Rogers’ latest statewide ad after confirming the GroupMe messages offering students $200 to attend Abdul El-Sayed’s town hall, coordinate questions and boo were real. The group says the solicitation “does not reflect the values” of its organization and that it did not coordinate with Dashti.

Rogers is already struggling badly with young voters. Now even the College Republicans want distance from the guy he chose to put on camera.

Hell of a campus strategy from Mike Rogers. Maybe that works in Florida?
Excerpt from Huff Post. 👇

[Apple Blossom Bulletin @AppleBlossomMI]

GOP Secretary of State candidate Anthony Forlini was recently a special guest on the RNC's "Protect the Vote" poll challenger training.

Forlini has repeatedly called the integrity of Michigan elections into doubt.

[Apple Blossom Bulletin @AppleBlossomMI]

GOP Secretary of State candidate Anthony Forlini was recently a special guest on the RNC's "Protect the Vote" poll challenger training.

Forlini has repeatedly called the integrity of Michigan elections into doubt.

[Apple Blossom Bulletin @AppleBlossomMI]

Longtime far-right activist Amy Hawkins published a Substack post last month in which she directly likened abortion & affirmation of trans kids to the Holocaust.

What's wilder: Hawkins is the campaign manager for Anthony Forlini, GOP nominee for Secretary of State.

[Apple Blossom Bulletin @AppleBlossomMI]

Tomorrow in Detroit: GOP candidates Lloyd & Forlini are set for a fundraiser with some big-name Republicans... including Oakland GOP Chair Vance Patrick, who thinks that No Kings protestors are violent communists.

[Detroit Metro Times @metrotimes]

Republican AG nominee Doug Lloyd is raising money with David Kallman, the lawyer who fought to let prosecutors enforce Michigan’s 1931 abortion ban after Roe fell. Lloyd took a similar position himself in 2022. https://t.co/jfXRaFvHn1

[Steve Neavling @MCmuckraker]

For months, Mike Rogers backed Trump’s war in Iran, called it “the right thing to do,” and said he trusted Trump to handle it. Now, with the war driving up costs and becoming a political liability, Rogers says it “needs to end.” Quite a shift.

[Apple Blossom Bulletin @AppleBlossomMI]

Hillsdale County Sheriff Scott Hodshire is in big trouble for official misconduct and obstruction of justice.
Hodshire endorsed Republican AG candidate Doug Lloyd. So much for the "law and order" candidate.

[Apple Blossom Bulletin @AppleBlossomMI]

Michiganders, drop what you're doing and read this. Then ask yourself if Doug Lloyd is even fit to be the state's next AG.

[Apple Blossom Bulletin @AppleBlossomMI]

It sure looks like Doug Lloyd gave a bunch of money to his buddy's brother to build his dream home contract-free, even though said brother had been charged with financial crimes BY HIS OWN OFFICE multiple times. And that's just the start of it.

[Apple Blossom Bulletin @AppleBlossomMI]

I have to admit, these photos of Anthony Forlini larping as working class are kind of funny -- but probably not in the way he intended.

Hey, at least he has a job lined up for when he loses!

[Apple Blossom Bulletin @AppleBlossomMI]

It sure looks like Doug Lloyd gave a bunch of money to his buddy's brother to build his dream home contract-free, even though said brother had been charged with financial crimes BY HIS OWN OFFICE multiple times. And that's just the start of it.

[Detroit Free Press @freep]

Doug Lloyd used Eaton investigator in fight over his $1M Up North home https://t.co/IjXJEa4EZC

[Apple Blossom Bulletin @AppleBlossomMI]

Michiganders, drop what you're doing and read this. Then ask yourself if Doug Lloyd is even fit to be the state's next AG.

[Steve Neavling @MCmuckraker]

I dug through records involving Doug Lloyd, the Republican candidate for Michigan attorney general.

The review found multiple sex-crime cases that ended with reduced charges, probation instead of jail, or no prosecution. 🧵https://t.co/2BNUb47SQD

[Apple Blossom Bulletin @AppleBlossomMI]

Republican AG candidate Doug Lloyd is in the pocket of Big Oil. He wants to get rid of all the "burdensome regulations" that protect Michigan's environment.

[Apple Blossom Bulletin @AppleBlossomMI]

Hillsdale County Sheriff Scott Hodshire is in big trouble for official misconduct and obstruction of justice.
Hodshire endorsed Republican AG candidate Doug Lloyd. So much for the "law and order" candidate.

[Apple Blossom Bulletin @AppleBlossomMI]

I have to admit, these photos of Anthony Forlini larping as working class are kind of funny -- but probably not in the way he intended.

Hey, at least he has a job lined up for when he loses!

[Apple Blossom Bulletin @AppleBlossomMI]

Republican AG candidate Doug Lloyd is in the pocket of Big Oil. He wants to get rid of all the "burdensome regulations" that protect Michigan's environment.

[Distill Social @DistillSocial]

POAM endorsed Tudor Dixon in 2022 after praising Gov. Whitmer for investing in law enforcement — the same year Whitmer signed the largest police budget increase in Michigan history.

At some point, you have to ask what exactly their endorsement is based on because apparently record funding for cops isn’t enough. Nor is fighting pedos, people who lie about election conspiracies or actually anything Michiganders are asking for.

Calling POAM galactic morons may actually be underselling it.

[Michigan Democrats @MichiganDems]

Voters can see right through the GOP's sudden about-face on data centers. "I feel that Rogers and the MAGA crowd is using this as a ploy, a one-year ploy" said an independent voter in Portage. And he's right. https://t.co/gt3YWjEnGU