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Call it "campaign lite." The governor has political-style videos, is fund-raising and talks like a 2014 candidate.
"Gov. Rick Snyder all but announced his plans to seek re-election Friday," Paul Egan writes in the Free Press.
“We’re going to keep going and we’re going to reinvent our state,” Snyder told Republicans at the Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference, held every two years on Mackinac Island.
That prompted chants of “four more years” from the partisan crowd. . . .
Snyder even urged attendees to sign his nominating petitions, due in April. But pressed by reporters after his speech, he insisted he had not made an announcement.
“Stay tuned,” he said.
"It's a nerdy job, but someone has to do it," Rick Snyder says during a national gathering of Republicans at Mackinac Island this weekend.
In another comment to journalists, Egan reports, the governor said his campaign theme could be "We said it; we did it.”
A 22-second new video (above) ends with Snyder saying: “It’s a nerdy job, but someone has to do it.” There's also a five-minute presentation, embedded below.
Egan, a Lansing correspondent, adds a reality check by noting:
The governor’s labeling of Michigan as “the comeback state” has been complicated by a still sluggish recovery. The state unemployment rate increased for three consecutive months, hitting 9% in August.
His report from the national party gathering at Mackinac Island notes that a campaign website and social media accounts are active (@RickForMI and Facebook page with just 420 "likes" as of Saturday morning).
“Well, to those, I say…Stay tuned. It's a nerdy job but someone has to do it!" -RS #NerdyJob VIDEO: http://t.co/GTaj59KTEU
— RickForMI Campaign (@RickForMI) September 20, 2013
