Bill Schuette and Gretchen Whitmer
With just weeks to go until the Nov. 6 election, the rhetoric in the gubernatorial race between Gretchen Whitmer and Attorney General Bill Schuette is heating up.
Jonathan Oosting and Beth LeBlanc of the Detroit News report:
Whitmer and several Nassar victims called on Schuette to ask the Michigan Republican Party to take down an explosive online ad alleging Whitmer "refused to prosecute Larry Nassar on sexual assault charges" when serving as interim Ingham County prosecutor in 2016. She called it a “callous, craven” lie.
Schuette, the attorney general whose office ended up prosecuting and convicting Nassar on state charges, repeatedly declined to address the request and said he had not seen the ad.
But he doubled down on the claim, saying Whitmer “failed to prosecute” and “chose not to prosecute this case,” citing a Detroit News story that detailed an apparent strategy dispute between her office and MSU Police Chief Jim Dunlap.
Whitmer, who was sexually assaulted as a Michigan State student, didn't take kindly to it all, reports the News:
"You are hurting the women who bravely came forward and their families every time you (put Nassar in an ad)," said Whitmer, surrounded by a group of Nassar victims, two fellow prosecutors and a local sheriff. "Get it off the air."
