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Snyder Takes Off The Gloves And Punches Back At Mark Schauer

October 02, 2014, 6:26 AM

With his job on the line, Michigan's confrontation-averse governor is starting to take on his critics after absorbing political jabs for four years with little response, Chad Livengood reports in The Detroit News.

Gov. Rick Snyder is contesting a litany of television ads and attacks from Democratic challenger Mark Schauer that he slashed education funding $1 billion in 2011 to deliver a tax cut for businesses and the wealthy.

Snyder calls those claims "hogwash" and "lies" — a sharp change of tone in the self-described nerd's tempered rhetoric with just over four weeks until Election Day. He started the counter-offensive in a new TV ad that says he has increased education spending every year and Schauer cut it while in the Legislature.

"Enough is enough," he said in an interview with The Detroit News. "They've continued with the lie; it needs to be clarified."

Snyder told The News he'll use a series of campaign town hall meetings to address other "lies" about him "on a number of other fronts."

What the accountant-turned-governor considers a mathematical lie about education funding has morphed into a political liability. Snyder finds himself in a tight re-election battle against Schauer.


Read more:  The Detroit News


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