June 30, 2022
Covering Third Parties and Independent Candidates Since 2008
Remember this story, where Independent Glenn Wilson’s campaign manager resigned in principle? Turns out Rich Carlson was lying. The Michigan Messenger reports:
NPR reports now that this was a story made up with help from the Benishek campaign. The reality, NPR reports, is that Carlson was fired from the Wilson campaign.
A Detroit Free Press poll has independent conservative Glenn Wilson at 8% in a race with a virtual dead heat between the Republican and Democratic candidates:
Detroit Free Press poll:
Dan Benishek (R) – 42%
Gary McDowell (D) – 40%
Glenn Wilson (IND) – 8%
Undecided – 10%
The poll has a margin of sampling error of plus/minus 4.9 percent.… Read more ...
Glenn Wilson, a conservative candidate mounting a third-party bid for Bart Stupak’s seat in Congress from the 1st District of Michigan, has lost his campaign manager.
Rich Carlson resigned from the campaign and is accusing Wilson of violating a promise he made to drop out of the race if the polls showed he had little chance of winning so he would not split the conservative vote with Republican candidate Dan Benishek.
From the Michigan Messenger: via TPID:
Now that Stupak’s seat is open, Republicans are eager to win it back, Democrats are struggling to hang on to it, and candidates from outside these parties are trying to get voters to rethink the fundamentals of how government operates.