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This is so cool. Thanks for the shout-out @WashingtonPost (and thanks to whoever suggested me)! washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/…
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Andrew Roth
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Andrew Roth
@RothTheReporter
Covering Michigan politics and policy. Work in @MichiganAdvance, @DetroitNews, @nytimes, @rollingstone and more. Available for assignment. Also @RothsReviews.
Lansing, MI Katılım Ağustos 2012
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@bensolis1 It could be, if they're counting on the location data being accurate. There are several reasons an IP address could give an incorrect location though: VPNs, IP masking (which is built in on Apple devices with a subscription), defaulting to the last known Wi-Fi connection, etc.
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This is good info, and Barb is again setting records straight, but Houston? Isn't that, in and of itself, another problem?
Andrew Roth@RothTheReporter
Ingham County Clerk @BarbByrum tells me she will not appeal the results of the Secretary of State race. She says IP addresses are an unreliable source of location data: An MDP team member seen at the convention was logged as voting from Houston, she said. wkar.org/election-2026/…
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Byrum said data showing that a delegate voted from Montenegro is likely the result of a VPN service being used.
She said if the party attempted to geofence voting based on IP addresses, “there likely would have been major issues, which likely would have disenfranchised voters.”
Chad Livengood@ChadLivengood
NEW: Someone voted remotely in the Michigan Democratic Party nominating convention in Detroit from the eastern European country of Montenegro, according to @SenatorSantana's MSU trustee campaign. Sanatana wants an independent audit of the results after finding dozens of delegates who weren't in Huntington Place during the convention vote. @CraigDMauger with the latest: detroitnews.com/story/news/pol…
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Ingham County Clerk @BarbByrum tells me she will not appeal the results of the Secretary of State race.
She says IP addresses are an unreliable source of location data: An MDP team member seen at the convention was logged as voting from Houston, she said. wkar.org/election-2026/…
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AG @DanaNessel, a term-limited Democrat, says her votes at the MDP's endorsement convention were not attributed correctly, and the system had her in the wrong congressional district.
@SenatorSantana, who narrowly lost a MSU Board of Trustees race, requested an independent audit.
Dana Nessel@dananessel
My statement regarding the call for an audit of the MDP’s recent convention election results.
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The Michigan Education Association is endorsing state Rep. @DonavanMI13 over incumbent U.S. Rep. @ShriThanedar in MI-13.
The MEA also endorsed incumbent U.S. Rep. @RashidaTlaib over two primary challengers in MI-12 and @AmbBridgetBrink over @WeWill2026 and @MattMaasdam in MI-07.
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Oakland University Trustee Colleen Ochoa Peters, the wife of retiring U.S. Sen. Gary Peters, has endorsed Haley Stevens to succeed her husband in the Senate, calling Stevens "our best shot to keep this Senate seat blue.” The senator has not made an endorsement.
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.@GovWhitmer recalled participating in MSU traditions like the midnight scream and drinking Shark Bowls. But she said there's no single right way to experience college.
“If you showed up, got involved, stayed curious and made friends, you did MSU right.”
michiganadvance.com/2026/05/01/whi…
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Wolverines, the University of Michigan's mascot, are the largest land-dwelling member of the weasel family.
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.@GovWhitmer shouted out Michigan State University's "handsome, buff mascot, Sparty" during her commencement address at her alma mater today.
"Think about those poor students in Ann Arbor," Whitmer said. "They have a weasel for a mascot."
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@parapublius @agucciverse @whisox @GovWhitmer Generally a good idea to read past the headline.
“East Lansing called in extra enforcement Saturday to prevent a repeat of last weekend's riot at Cedar Village near Michigan State University, which resulted in thousands of students lighting bonfires and fighting in the streets.”
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@agucciverse @whisox @RothTheReporter @GovWhitmer "Michigan State campus quiet following football game"
Doesn't sound like much of a "riot" to me!🤦♂️
Whitmer is a well documented liar and low integrity individual.
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.@GovWhitmer tells graduating MSU students two major events happened during her freshman year here: the Berlin Wall fell, and the first couches burned at Cedar Village.
"I may or may not have been at one of those events," Whitmer says. "Let's just say I didn't have a passport."
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@GovWhitmer "Congratulations, I love you, Big Gretch out, go green," @GovWhitmer closes her speech at MSU, her final commencement address as governor.
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.@GovWhitmer tells graduating Spartans that while many think of the state House as her first elected office, it was actually serving as president of her sorority at MSU, Kappa Alpha Theta.
"This is where it all started for me, and part of me will always be here," she says.
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@bensolis1 MSU has a spotty record of its own with press access (barring student journalists from a public memorial the year of the shooting, holding closed-door meetings with the BOT while claiming to voluntarily follow the OMA, etc.), so it’s hard to say what factors might be at play.
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Does Whitmer's team even care about local press coverage at this point?
Andrew Roth@RothTheReporter
Press photographers won’t be allowed on the floor of the Breslin Center as Gov. Gretchen Whitmer delivers MSU’s commencement address this week. University spokespeople declined to explain why policy changed since Justice Sotomayor, Dr. Fauci and others gave previous addresses.
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Rather than having floor access, like at previous commencement addresses, press photographers will instead be restricted to the media platforms behind the top of the lower bowl as Whitmer speaks tomorrow, per MSU.
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Press photographers won’t be allowed on the floor of the Breslin Center as Gov. Gretchen Whitmer delivers MSU’s commencement address this week.
University spokespeople declined to explain why policy changed since Justice Sotomayor, Dr. Fauci and others gave previous addresses.
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“These are normal tweets by a normal person” will be rattling around my vocabulary for the foreseeable future.
Andrew Kaczynski@KFILE
McMorrow wrote in her 2025 autobiography that she “relocated permanently” to Michigan in 2014. But deleted tweets show she continued to vote in California until its June 2016 primary. A spokesperson for McMorrow, Hannah Lindow, said the campaign deleted all her tweets prior to 2020, describing it as “pretty standard for candidates.” She said that McMorrow’s move from California to Michigan “was a process” that was not complete until mid-2016, that she remained registered to vote in California during that time, and that she voted absentee in June 2016. Lindow said McMorrow considers 2014 the start of that move. “These are normal tweets by a normal person,” said Lindow, McMorrow’s communications director.
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Haley Stevens capitalizes on CNN reporting about old tweets deleted by Mallory McMorrow.
Stevens is the only candidate in the U.S. Senate primary who hasn’t been the focus of a @KFILE story on deleted tweets (yet). He reported on Abdul El-Sayed’s deleted tweets last year.
Haley Stevens@HaleyforMI
I’m a born and raised Michigander and damn proud of it. I love everything that makes us Michiganders, from our manufacturing heritage to our lakes and yep, even our accent. That’s why I have pretty thick skin about people making fun of the way I talk or the clothes I wear—because this campaign isn’t about me. It’s about the amazing people who live in this state. About them having a real champion in the Senate. So what actually ticks me off? Someone who wants that job—representing Michiganders—talking crap about us and our state. cnn.com/2026/04/29/pol…
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“You cannot compare,” Blanche said. “It’s not fair to the American people, it’s not fair to the defendant, and it’s certainly not fair to the prosecutors to compare, ‘well, if you did it here, why didn’t you do it there?’”
Andrew Roth@RothTheReporter
Acting AG Todd Blanche didn’t rule out a federal investigation into Gov. Gretchen Whitmer for an “86 45” emblem visible in the background of a virtual appearance she made in 2020, but he said specific facts must be examined on a case-by-case basis. michiganadvance.com/2026/04/29/aft…
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Acting AG Todd Blanche didn’t rule out a federal investigation into Gov. Gretchen Whitmer for an “86 45” emblem visible in the background of a virtual appearance she made in 2020, but he said specific facts must be examined on a case-by-case basis.
michiganadvance.com/2026/04/29/aft…
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