Michigan AG Bill Shady Schuette using tax dollars to run his campaign Hatch Act violation compla

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Michigan Attorney General Bill “Shady” Schuette using tax dollars to run his campaign – Hatch Act violation complaint filed

Anyone who has been paying attention to the political career of Michigan Attorney General Bill “Shady” Schuette knows that he’s been running for governor for decades. Each rung on his political ladder has been one more step toward his ultimate goal, at least so far as Michigan politics goes.

For the first three years of his time as AG, Schuette has spent our tax dollars on his own personal, rabidly conservative, homophobic, xenophobic, corporatist agenda. I outlined his sordid history back in 2014 in a piece titled Bill Schuette: Michigan’s own Ken Cuccinelli – extreme, self-serving, and all up in your bedroom. This is a man so extreme that he has made a national name for himself. Although he’s currently working hard to distance himself from the disgraced Snyder administration by taking a sudden and vigorous interest in the Flint water crisis, prior to this he’s spent time (and our money) fighting marriage equality, the Affordable Care Act, attacking workers and unions, promoting polluters, and a whole host of regressive issues not supported by most Michiganders.

But thanks to fine reporting by the Detroit Free Press, we now know that Schuette is using his office for more than just promoting his own personal vile political agenda. He’s also using it to pursue even more political power by staffing up his office with political operatives who support his run for governor:

Read more: http://www.eclectablog.com/2018/01/michigan-attorney-general-bill-shady-schuette-using-tax-dollars-to-run-his-campaign-hatch-act-violation-complaint-filed.html

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1. I think Trump has already endorsed him...

so that should be enough to end his career.