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Benson should investigate the dark money operation run by state Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey ( R-Clarklake), one of the largest and most brazen i Michigan history. Built around The Sterling Corporation, a longtime Lansing-based consulting firm now owned by Lambert Edwards & Associates, this operation has raised and spent millions of dollars to influence Michigan elections. Shirkey has used that money to create, control and fund the Unlock Michigan petition drive to repeal the Governor�...

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson should find out who's bankrolling efforts to repeal governor's power, suppress voting

Longtime political rivals ask probe of dark money behind GOP initiatives Bob LaBrant and Mark Brewer © Detroit Free Press Bob LaBrant, Michigan Chamber VP and Mark Brewer. When Jocelyn Benson ran for Michigan Secretary of State, she pledged to root out dark money. “I think it’s time to fix a broken system, because it’s not getting any better,” Benson said in a 2019 interview. “And it’s causing citizens to lose faith and trust in their elected officials to work on...