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NEWS
ACROSS
1 Promising
location?
6 Omegas, to an
electrician
10 Best Actor winner
for “Ray”
14 “The Big Bang
Theory”
co-creator Chuck
15 Gusto
16 Tool for a
landscaper
17 Posh water
18 Diva’s number
19 __ out a win
20 Forest canines
23 Island near
Barbuda
24 Serve in the
capacity of
28 Secretary of state
before Shultz
29 “Yankee” entrée
32 Close on film
34 Prefix with hertz
35 Big name in
vodka
36 Allowed
37 “Good heavens!”
40 Slippery swimmer
41 19th-century
Arizona lawman
43 Sly as __
44 Die down
46 Diver’s weapon
48 Prohibitionists
49 Sirius XM radio
star
50 Coming-down-
with-something
feeling
53 Developing story,
and what this
puzzle’s circles
illustrate
57 “Buzz off!”
60 Square cereal
61 Wine list heading
62 Mani mate
63 Ritz-Carlton
competitor
64 First name in
cosmetics
65 Rink jump
66 Vegas glower
67 “The Tower” poet
DOWN
1 Prince Valiant’s
wife
2 Like the singin’
Spoonful
3 Do some holiday
decorating
4 Versatile horse
5 Weaseling out
(on)
6 Longtime Boston
Symphony
maestro
7 Superman’s
favorite
sandwich?
8 It may be
registered
9 Pole, e.g.
10 Diego Rivera
works
11 Charter __:
historic Hartford
landmark
12 Jag to
remember
13 Cancels (out)
21 Throw __
22 Bud holder?
25 Go out in the
afternoon?
26 To date
27 Fashionista’s
concern
29 Evita’s married
name
30 African antelope
31 Diet Coke
predecessor
32 “Cagney &
Lacey” co-star
33 Took off
34 Food that has an
extra-firm option
38 Hang back
39 Tea named for a
nobleman
42 Precook, in a
way
45 Close way to win
47 Time away from
the base, for short
48 Stevens of
“Beauty and the
Beast” (2017)
50 Recipe phrase
51 Short partner?
52 Mississippi
foursome
54 Macro or micro
subj.
55 Wistful words
56 Numbers game
57 Cruise ship
amenity
58 Bewitch
59 Dedicated
piece
By Samuel A. Donaldson
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08/03/17
08/03/17
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Concerns raised over cost of gubernatorial election
By CARLY RYAN
Daily Staff Reporter
Michigan’s
gubernatorial
candidates are leaning into campaign
fundraising, with five declared or
prospective
candidates
already
backed by over $1 million in finances,
according to the July finance reports,
which were due Tuesday.
Gretchen Whitmer, former state
Senate minority leader, has raised
the most money in donations thus
far, reporting $1,531,676. Though
Whitmer
has
the
most
name
recognition and is backed by multiple
unions and national organizations like
Emily’s List, Shri Thanedar, a political
newcomer, is ahead in total finances.
Though Thanedar hasn’t raised
nearly as much as Whitmer, he has
invested $3.3 million of his own
money into his campaign, after selling
60 percent of his chemical testing
company. A University of Michigan
alum with a doctorate in chemistry,
Thanedar has drawn parallels to
Gov. Rick Snyder, both in having
no political experience during the
election and being from Ann Arbor.
In the 2011 gubernatorial race, Snyder
invested more than $6 million of his
personal fortune.
However, Thanedar’s lack of name
recognition leaves him with a rather
long road to travel, especially when
up against front-runner Whitmer,
who recently won the endorsement
of University Regent Mark Bernstein
(D) after he pulled out of the race.
In his statement, Bernstein tasked
voters with uniting behind Whitmer’s
values.
“A
divisive
and
expensive
Democratic primary would only
distract us from this essential task,”
he said.
The vast expenses required to
run a campaign have been a point of
contention for years, across all levels of
office. In the 2014 gubernatorial race,
Snyder, a Republican, and Democratic
challenger Mark Schauer spent a
combined total of about $58.3 million,
according to the Detroit Free Press.
In 2006, the race between former
Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm
and Republican challenger Dick
DeVos cost over $80 million.
If the 14 prospective candidates
don’t follow in Bernstein’s footprints
and unite behind a candidate, the
2018 election is on track to be the
most costly yet, setting a problematic
precedent, according to rising LSA
junior Amanda Delekta, vice president
of internal affairs of the University’s
chapter of College Republicans.
“Money plays a pivotal role in
campaigns on all levels in government
and it is disheartening to turn an
election, what should be a discourse
of ideas and solutions, into which
candidate can raise the most money,”
she said.
Additionally,
Abdul
El-Sayed,
another
University
alum
and
democratic
candidate,
has
been
raising large sums of money, topping
the $1 million mark ahead of the
filing deadline. El-Sayed has been
campaigning
aggressively
across
the state in an effort to catch up to
Whitmer.
“Rather
than
establishment
insiders, Michiganders want bold
ideas, inspiration, energy, and fresh
progressive leadership,” El-Sayed
said in a statement.
Neither
the
University’s
chapter of College Republicans or
College Democrats have endorsed
a candidate, though LSA junior
Lauren Schandevel, public relations
chair of College Democrats and a
columnist for the Daily, said student
involvement will be critical to the
gubernatorial race.
“We love being a platform for
students who are a huge part of the
grassroots movement,” Shandevel
said.
On the Republican side, Michigan
Attorney General Bill Schuette,
who is widely expected to receive
the Republican nomination, has
nearly $1.6 million he could use
for his campaign, according to
the Detroit Free Press, though he
hasn’t announced he is running yet.
Schuette received large donations
from the Michigan Beer and Wine
Wholesalers PAC and the DTE
Energy Co. PAC, both about $30,000
each.
At
the
Michigan
Republican
Leadership Conference on Mackinac
Island, Schuette addressed rumors
of his campaign but still didn’t
announce.
“We need a jobs governor from the
Republican Party in 2018,” he said.
“I’m not announcing today. My focus
is jobs and paychecks and education.”
Likely opponent Lt. Gov. Brian
Calley, who also has not announced,
has a $1.2 million fundraising total.
Both Calley and Schuette’s term limits
are up for their respective positions,
and even without announcing their
plans to run, have pulled far ahead
of official candidates Dr. Jim Hines,
an obstetrician, and Sen. Patrick
Colbeck (R–Canton), one of the
most conservative voices in the state
legislature.
Hines
spent
most
of
his
campaign funds collecting the
petition signatures required for
nomination leaving him with little
over $6,000 in funds, even after
putting over $300,000 of his own
money into the campaign.
Colbeck, who just announced his
campaign on Saturday, reported
having about $23,000 in the bank.
Among other Democrats vying
for the nomination are William
Cobbs, retired Xerox executive
and U.S. Navy veteran with about
$2,000 in the bank, and Southfield
attorney Geoffrey Fieger, who
reported a token $5 donation to his
campaign in June and hasn’t closed
the campaign committee he used to
run as the Democratic candidate in
1998. Other Democratic candidates
Justin Giroux, Kentiel White, and
Clyde Darnell Lynch did not file
finance reports with the Secretary
of State.