Gretchen Whitmer
With the Aug. 7 primary less than three weeks away, The Detroit News endorses Democrat Gretchen Whitmer and Republican Brian Calley as their parties' nominees for governor.
An editorial says:
Brian Calley is ready for the challenges Lansing has to offer, working effectively with Snyder for the eight years that have marked Michigan’s economic revival. The governor has relied on his top lieutenant for policy guidance, and to walk his priorities through the Michigan Legislature, where Calley had served four years as a state representative.
On Gretchen Whitmer, the paper says:
As leader of the Senate during Snyder’s first two years, she rejected the opportunity to work across the aisle with a governor who had hoped to craft a bipartisan comeback.
But of the four Democrats running in the primary, she is by far the best choice and has exhibited on the campaign trail a broader understanding of what it takes to govern.
