Maybe this is not quite as craven as it might seem …
Michigan GOP Chair Laura Cox - has raw meat craving hyenas to satisfy - so for her - making the deliberate choice of renominating Aaron Van Langevelde was essentially a non-starter … However, appears that she may not necessarily want to insert an automatic election nullification zealot …
According to the article she sent three names to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer:
Linda Lee Tarver - Trump loyalist who filed an unsuccessful lawsuit against the Board of State Canvassers;
Among the three GOP nominees for Van Langevelde’s seat, Tarver of Lansing has been the most aggressive in pushing claims about the Nov. 3 election. She appeared at a Dec. 1 Michigan Senate Oversight Committee hearing about the election.
she said if had been given a vote on the board Nov. 23,
she would not have voted to certify the election.
Tony Daunt, executive director of Michigan Freedom Fund
leads a nonprofit organization that’s spoken out against false claims about the election.
On. Jan. 6, Daunt said the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol was "an outgrowth of the rhetoric, lies and conspiracies spread by the president and other elected Republicans who’ve falsely and feverishly claimed November’s election was stolen."
In a Monday interview, Daunt said Van Langevelde handled his vote on Nov. 23 appropriately.
Tori Sachs, executive director of Michigan Rising Action.
she served six years in former Gov. Rick Snyder’s administration and managed Republican John James’ unsuccessful campaign for the U.S. Senate in 2018.
She also has been critical of false claims about the Nov. 3.
“People have arrived at the conclusions they arrived at because they’ve been told over and over in certain echo chambers that the election was stolen, that the votes were rigged, and that somehow Donald Trump was still going be president of the United States even though he lost the election — and those things are simply not true,” Sachs said during a Jan. 10 appearance on WDIV’s “Flashpoint.”
Oh - and just saw this …