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Thursday, August 3, 2017
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
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
©2017 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
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.