Ten candidates filed petitions for the Republican gubernatorial primary in Michigan, and five of them have been rejected by the Board of Canvassers because they found a substantial number of fraudulent signatures on each one. Nobody is blaming the candidates themselves. It seems they all hired the same outfit to solicit signatures for them, which sounds fishy right there, but I understand it's a common practice that is not illegal in and of itself. It is those solicitors that have been accused of falsifying signatures. I'm not sure if that is illegal but, of course, it ought to be. Either way, those five candidates will not be on the primary ballot in August.
That's fine by me, 10 candidates were way too many for my taste. Even five is more than we need. All we really need is one Trumpist and one non-Trumpist to provide us with a clear choice. One of the disqualified candidates had the Trump endorsement, for which he beat out one of the surviving candidates by waging a Trumpier Than Thou campaign. With him gone, it remains to be seen if Trump will pick the other guy as his second choice. Last I heard, he had not, at least not yet. The two Trumpers have been the only ones advertising on TV so far, and I don't know anything about the other four guys, not even their names. I hope that they are not all non-Trumpists, because if they are, they will likely split the vote between them, the Trumpist will win the nomination, and we will have four more years of Queen Gretchen and her motley crew.
Remember when we were wondering what use those Russian invaders had for the defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant? Well now we know, they just wanted a warm place to shit.
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