MI-GOV: Detroit chamber PAC backs Whitmer for governor
The Detroit Regional Chamber's political action committee is splitting its ticket this year in election endorsements at the top of the November ballot.
The chamber PAC's board of directors on Wednesday endorsed Democrat Gretchen Whitmer for governor over Republican Bill Schuette, while siding with Republican House Speaker Tom Leonard to succeed Schuette as attorney general over Democrat Dana Nessel.
In endorsing Whitmer, the chamber PAC cited Whitmer's support for the group's priorities in regional transit, infrastructure funding and construction of the Gordie Howe International Bridge as well as her past votes as a state senator for Detroit's bankruptcy "grand bargain" and expansion of the Medicaid program for the working poor.
"Gretchen has a better record on those and a better plan," said Brad Williams, vice president of government relations for the Detroit Regional Chamber.
Whitmer's commitment to seeing through construction of the Gordie Howe bridge was stronger than Schuette's publicly stated support for both the Gordie Howe project as well as the Moroun family's desire to construct a replacement span for the aging Ambassador Bridge, Williams said.
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