MI-GOV: Detroit's latest abandoned property: Bill Schuette's campaign office
The door is locked — gated, in fact. Chairs are empty. Cookies have been left uneaten. Poorly drawn poster boards festoon the otherwise barren walls. A message of hope is draped over a shuttered storefront. Next door is an overgrown, barricaded children's playscape.
A stroll past Republican candidate for governor Bill Schuette's Detroit campaign office just a week before the midterm election feels more like a horror film scene than bustling headquarters. In fact, it's downright spooky.
Located in Detroit's North End neighborhood at 9033 Woodward Ave., the neglected office for the Schuette campaign (or "Shoe-Tee" as a sign in the headquarters' window informs) has been far from a torrent of political activity. It came to our attention thanks to political advocate Graham Davis, who has been using Twitter to unveil perhaps one of the most intriguing subplots of the Michigan gubernatorial race yet.
Davis first pointed out the curiously dormant and inaccessible headquarters in a Tweet last Wednesday, which has since spurred several followup videos. Each one is absent of a single volunteer.
"Totally empty yet again," Davis says on his Saturday visit. "A perfect day for volunteering. But no one is here."
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