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Oops! Lt. Gov. Calley Goofs by Turning in Petitions for Other Candidates

April 20, 2018, 4:07 PM

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Lt. Gov. Brian Calley (Facebook photo)

Gubernatorial hopeful Lt. Gov. Brian Calley makes an embarrassing mistake.

He inadvertently turned in dozens of nominating petitions for other candidates in unrelated races as part of his bid to qualify for August's primary, writes Jonathan Oosting of The Detroit Newst:

The Portland Republican on Tuesday personally submitted thousands of petitions to the Secretary of State’s office, but at least 47 sheets contained signatures for GOP U.S. Senate candidate Sandy Pensler and two petitions were for U.S. House hopeful Nancy Skinner, a Democrat.

Michael Stroud, a consultant for Calley’s campaign who was involved in the petition process, attributed the accidentally filed petitions to a circulator who had collected signatures for a number of candidates.

“Some petitions for other candidates were mistakenly put in boxes for Brian Calley,” Stroud said in a statement. “It’s doesn’t impact the total count, and over 25,000 validated signatures for Brian Calley were properly filed.”


Read more:  The Detroit News


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