Source: Detroit News (The article below is from The Detroit News)
Barrage of ads hit GOP race for governor
A rush of commercials from the Republican candidates for governor and their supporters hit the airwaves last week.
State Senate Minority Leader Aric Nesbitt of Porter Township debuted his first TV ad of the campaign, saying “dirty jobs” he did on the farm growing up prepared him to “drain the Lansing swamp.”
“There are a lot of rich guys running for governor,” Nesbitt says in the ad. “Me? I grew up shoveling … and castrating hogs on the farm.”
At the end of the 30-second spot, Nesbitt concluded, while holding two pigs, “Liberals might squeal, but we’re taking Michigan back.”
One of the “rich guys” in the Republican primary race, millionaire businessman Perry Johnson of Bloomfield Hills, launched his latest round of ads, running during NCAA basketball tournament games and putting $1.5 million behind it.
Johnson says, in the new ad, that it’s logical for boys to play with boys and girls to play with girls in youth sports.
“Woke left radicals,” according to Johnson, want to allow sex changes for minors.
“I’m a conservative businessman and thankfully, an outsider to politics. I don’t owe anyone anything, other than trying to bring sanity back to our state,” Johnson says in the ad.
Meanwhile, Mission Michigan, an organization that’s backing U.S. Rep. John James of Shelby Township, sponsored ads last week that featured clips of President Donald Trump speaking positively about James at past campaign events.
“He’s going to be a star,” Trump says in one of the clips from a past rally.
Former Attorney General Mike Cox of Livonia blasted the Trump-focused ad in a statement Friday, arguing that it falsely suggested James has Trump’s endorsement.
Trump has not endorsed in Michigan’s Republican primary for governor.Mission Michigan’s donors include Dan DeVos and his wife, Pamella DeVos, who gave a combined $5 million to the pro-James group last May.
