Jay Williamson

Youth vote director @Detroit_Action, former state director MI @AmericaVotes, former MI state director @NextGenAmerica. Cat lover. #YouthVote enthusiast.

[Jay Williamson @YouFanItJanet]

Publications should TAKE THE PAYWALLS OFF of political news for the final five days. Good lord!

[Jocelyn Benson @JocelynBenson]

10 to 14 years ago, Michigan was where Florida is today. Don’t sleep on Florida, because Michigan has shown how in just a few years, when women pull up their sleeves and support each other and don’t take no for an answer, you can actually achieve great things that no one saw coming. That’s the Michigan story, and I think, in the near future, it will be the Florida story as well. https://t.co/cxQ2UDautp

[Jay Williamson @YouFanItJanet]

@TeddyLandis1 Go tell this to @NateSilver538, who thinks that the ‘22 surge in young voters is a “lie perpetuated by activists.” He even had the gall to claim that we can’t produce any receipts to the contrary, a claim that is, in a word, WRONG.

[Jay Williamson @YouFanItJanet]

Kwame absolutely deserved to have his sentence commuted by Trump, but even a broken clock is right twice a day. Don’t continue to show up for Trump! What are you doing??

[Craig Mauger @CraigDMauger]

NEWS: Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick attended Donald Trump's rally on Wednesday night. https://t.co/lDHvGdBqw7

[Jay Williamson @YouFanItJanet]

I met Kathy on the campaign trail in 2018, before she left to work for NYT. She’s a class A political reporter and kicking her out of a rally is CRAZY. #FreePress

[Craig Mauger @CraigDMauger]

A source reminds me that the last time the Trump campaign held a rally at this particular airport in Michigan a prominent state reporter, Kathy Gray, was kicked out.

That was September 2020. https://t.co/ojeyCRLE0q

[Jay Williamson @YouFanItJanet]

Well, here’s more. Youth turnout in ‘22 was more than DOUBLE ‘14 (17%) and we’ve only made voting EASIER in MI. This is our first year of adding 9 days for early voting, so all signs point to an increase in youth turnout from 53% in 2020.

[Jay Williamson @YouFanItJanet]

.@NateSilver538 is full of shit. Silver claims that reports of increased youth turnout are a lie perpetuated by ‘activists.’ Well Nate, I HAVE the receipts. Data from the QVF shows that in MI, youth turnout went from 33% in ‘18 to 39% in ‘22. Need more? https://t.co/AtdnH3BlHU

[Jay Williamson @YouFanItJanet]

I know that publications need to make money, but if the ultimate mission is to educate voters, then news outlets have to take their best political news out from behind paywalls in 2024.

[Jay Williamson @YouFanItJanet]

@Brick715 Taylor Swift is a BILLIONAIRE. She does not need his $$

[Jay Williamson @YouFanItJanet]

@RonDeVoe we have some questions about ‘Poison.’ Why is she a loser for doin’ the crew? Is this about the girl or about the crew? Does the crew suck, or does this chick suck? Please clarify. We desperately need to know. Thank you.

[Jay Williamson @YouFanItJanet]

@BenWessel It’s stupid to run it with third party candidates. We legalized marijuana in Michigan with a ballot initiative and it helped mitigate rolloff for down ballot candidates and got more people to vote a full Dem ticket.

[Governor Gretchen Whitmer @GovWhitmer]

Damn it feels good to be a Michigander.

[Patrick Schuh @PatrickSchuh]

🚨Noticing a significant error in reporting of MI out of Tuesday. 🚨 At the statewide elected office level, MI is an ALLfecta state, please correct your reporting and posts accordingly. Gov, SOS, AG, State Senate, State House, Supreme Court, BOE, and University Boards🚨

[Patrick Schuh @PatrickSchuh]

MSU and Umich students as @taylorswift13 says, “all I want you to do is stay” in line and vote!

[Grant Hermes @GrantHermes]

Michigan saw the largest increase in young voter registration in the country this year.

[Jocelyn Benson @JocelynBenson]

We ready.

[Mike Mulholland @mulho2mj]

Absentee ballots are cool, but voting yes on prop 3 in a church that has had signs to vote no is something special.

[Jay Williamson @YouFanItJanet]

Agreed.

[Patrick Schuh @PatrickSchuh]

Hmmm, let's look at raw numbers instead of percentages. Tracking nealry 86k absentee ballot requests in the City of Detroit. That means 108k Detroiters showing up on EDay reaches 2018 turnout numbers. Like in 18 & 20, I believe Detroit will turnout the vote. cc: @bsneezy313