Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.
* The organizers behind a proposed abortion rights amendment in Michigan appeared to file more than enough legitimate petition signatures to qualify for the November ballot, but Republicans on the Board of Canvassers rejected the effort anyway. The matter is now headed to court.
* In Georgia’s U.S. Senate race, Democrats remain focused on Republican Herschel Walker’s history of violent episodes. “Herschel Walker has repeatedly threatened to kill his ex-wife,” a narrator tells voters in a new ad from Georgia Honor, a political organization closely affiliated with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and his Senate Majority PAC.
* After conservatives on the Wisconsin Supreme Court outlawed absentee ballot drop boxes and said that voters must return their own absentee ballot in person, a federal judge ruled yesterday that Wisconsin voters with disabilities can get help returning their ballots.
* Speaking of the Badger State, Tim Michels, Wisconsin’s Republican gubernatorial nominee, doesn’t just have a conservative worldview on social issues, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that he and his wife “donated $250,000 to anti-LGBTQ and anti-abortion groups, representing about 15% of his total donations in 2020.”









