Amber McCann, Mike Shirkey's deputy chief of staff and press secretary who has worked with three GOP senate majority leaders will start work in the department's public information and education office.
Republican Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey s spokeswoman is leaving the Michigan Senate to work for Democratic Attorney General Dana Nessel, Nessel s office confirmed Wednesday.
Amber McCann, deputy chief of staff for the Senate GOP, will serve as special projects director in Nessel s Office of Public Information & Education. She ll begin March 8 and report to Nessel s Communications Director Kelly Rossman-McKinney. Ms. McCann has a reputation as a tireless worker and consummate professional, and Attorney General Nessel is eager for her to continue serving the people of our state,” Rossman-McKinney said in a Thursday statement.
Shirkey said Thursday that McCann was a trusted adviser, a consummate professional and integral part of my staff.
Associated Press
LANSING, Mich. (AP) A top aide to embattled Republican Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey is leaving to take a job in Democratic state Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office.
Amber McCann, Shirkey’s deputy chief of staff and press secretary, will start as special projects director in the department’s public information and education office on March 8, Nessel communications director Kelly Rossman-McKinney said Thursday.
The news first reported by Crain’s Detroit Business came about a week after the release of a video in which Shirkey falsely said supporters of President Donald Trump were not involved in the deadly U.S. Capitol riot, calling it a “hoax.” He apologized but the next day said he was not taking back the points he was trying to make but rather “some of the words I chose.”
For the Gazette
The editors of the Marquette Mining Journal, in their February 8 editorial, which was reprinted in the Daily Mining Gazette on February 10, ask when the political climate will improve in this country? They suggest that the Trump impeachment process and our Defund Bergman Campaign will not make any difference and will further divide a divided country. They mention the pandemic and sound weary. We all are.
The Mining Journal editors and the Daily Mining Gazette editors greatly underestimate the threat to our democracy Donald Trump still poses. They see him as repairing to Mar-a-Lago and entertaining the likes of Rudy Giuliani and Roger Stone. We see him as continuing to control the approximately 40% (about 66% in the First Congressional District) of the electorate who supported him for four years and in the current election. Why did Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy visit him there? Why is QAnon believer Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, with close