In 2017, she founded a subscription-based news service, Lumen Student News, that provided content and promoted American exceptionalism. According to Politico's Playbook, Lee set a deadline of Feb. 28 for Alkonis to be released. A leading Republican candidate for Michigan governor held a campaign launch party with his supporters Thursday night. LANSING . Rinke is one of a handful of Republicans running for Michigan governor after several of the leading candidates were disqualified from the ballot for signature irregularities. "I can deliverfor the people of Michigan, if they believe in me," he said. She also wants to make it a crime to take children to drag schools. It's a poisoning and it's a war against our kids. Gretchen Whitmer, a first-term Democrat, at the Nov. 8 general election. There were also charges brought in January 2021 against Francis Fiore Presto, a registered Republican in Pennsylvania, who was charged with casting an absentee ballot in the name of his deceased wife, Judy, according to the Pittsburgh-Post Gazette. But Rinke is nothing but a bad used car salesman. She fired a semi-automatic 9 mm gun on the range into a pink body target, shooting the center of the target out. "He wasn't fully prepared nobody is.". Issues: Kelley wants to toughen voter ID rules, ban absentee drop boxes, cancel contracts with voting machine companies and require clerks to hand-count ballots, a process that would require weeks to tabulate results. We could not find their party affiliations. LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) We have gotten stacks of viewer emails and phone calls, with concerns over the ad that has been playing on stations around the area and here on WLNS. 2023 Bridge Michigan. Ryan Kelley: Firebrand activist 100% unapologetic in Michigan governor bid, Kelley, 40, is an Allendale real estate broker who was a well-known YouTube. Told about Clinton's response to what he said, Rinke said he stands by his assertion that the fund contains much more money than it should. On Thursday, the Associated Press revealed new details about past discrimination lawsuits against Kevin Rinke, a former Toyota dealership owner now running for governor of Michigan. Additionally, city and township clerks also cancel voter registrations when they independently confirm the death of a voter registered in their jurisdiction, for example through an obituary.. Byrum called the type of rhetoric found in Rinkes ad dangerous and sees similarities to messaging that led up to the January 6 attack on the Capitol. Running for Michigan governor may be harder. It did. The Department of Attorney General has not charged any cases related to voting on behalf of a deceased person in the 2020 or 2016 elections, Lynsey Mukomel, a spokeswoman for the department, told us in an email. READ THE SHOCKING SWORN COURT FILINGS FOR YOURSELF. His candidates he is batting 50%. Kevin Rinke Agrees With Gretchen Whitmer on Gun Control Proposal Rinke signals support for requiring background checks on all firearms purchases during Charlie LeDuff interview, a policy championed by Governor Gretchen WhitmerGrand Rapids, MI - Last Friday in an interview posted on Twitter by Charlie LeDuff, Republican. She also wants to make it a crime to take children to drag schools. Before the 2019 changes, all Michigan motorists paid as much as $220 per vehicle into the fund. Rinke has said he supports making Michigan a constitutional carry state by eliminating the need for a license to carry concealed pistols, but said in an interview that he may personally favor requiring background checks for firearm sales. State officials cited Shell, but there aren't any Senate floor speeches about those in Pennsylvania who might be suffering from "breathing problems, nausea, and rashes," not to mention cancer in extreme cases of exposure. In Colorado, Barry Lee Morphew was charged with casting a ballot in the name of his wife, Suzanne, in October 2020. Kelley has picked up considerable grassroots support from the Make America Great Again wing of the Republican Party, speaking out against COVID-19 vaccines and supporting Trumps false claims about widespread voter fraud. Aug 3, 2022 and I want to congratulate @TudorDixon on her victory. Controversies: She has backed Trumps false claims about election fraud in Michigan in 2020, but this weekend, dodged a question on national television about whether the 2020 election was stolen from Trump, saying the election is certainly a concern. That prompted fellow candidates to accuse her of being less than loyal to Trump. "I can't support that kind of rigidity,"Odom said. . Kevin Rinke is a Michigan businessman who ran successful Metro Detroit car dealerships, with their Michigan-based dealerships ranking among the largest operations in the world. Privacy Policy | For corrections contact corrections@rawstory.com, for support contact support@rawstory.com. We're not just a news organization, we're also your neighbors. Okay, so, disclaimer upfront," Lee said last year when speaking to The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. With two leading candidates disqualified, attention is shifting to Kevin Rinke, Garrett Soldano and especially Tudor Dixon, whose candidacy has caught Donald Trump's attention. Will you please support our nonprofit newsroom? He saysshe crippled the economy by halting too much business activity, harmed childrenby being too slow to resume in-person learning, and mismanaged nursing homes and other long-term care facilities where many elderly people died. James Hartwick, owner, of Custom Turf Lawn and Pest in Harrison Township, said he has not made a final decision on who he will support in the Republican primary, but he likes the fact Rinke is a sportsman and also a businessman, rather than a career politician. Michigan's "Detroit Free Press" newspaper has opted to endorse Kevin Rinke for the state Republican gubernatorial nomination, calling him the "least dangerous" option from a "pitiful" pack of. We could not determine the party affiliation of one voter. Whitmer. Rinke also said during the Lansing speech that the reason the fund is so large, at more than $20 billion, is because the MCCA uses an expected life expectancy of 107 years for catastrophically injured accident victims, when it makes its actuarial calculations. Ralph Rebandt: Id bring back Judeo-Christian values as Michigan governor. "They said I was too young and too inexperienced," Rinke said. Mukomel added that she wasnt aware of local prosecutors bringing such cases of voter fraud, either. Kelley, 40, is an Allendale real estate broker who was a well-known YouTube content creator before pivoting to politics. RINKES CRUDE LANGUAGE DOESNT BELONG IN THE WORKPLACE AND CERTAINLY NOT THE GOVERNORS OFFICE, WARNING:
In a phoneinterview, Pressdid not recall being quite so mercenary, but acknowledged "we were concerned about what the succession plan was," and said assisting with the sale of the dealership "was an option.". "Court documents state that Rinke also referred to his own genitals as 'golden' while threatening to sexually assault a used car manager if he didnt 'do a good job,'" reported Brian Slodysko, Sara Burnett, and Thomas Beaumont. Katherine, Grant, and Amanda are the names of the couple's three kids. The state rejected 4,090 absentee ballots in the 2020 general election because the voters moved to another jurisdiction, department data show. ", "Much of Rinkes conduct was reported by his personal secretary, who alleged that he would inquire about her underwear, call her at home if she failed to say goodnight and would also phone to ask 'which young stud' she was with while speculating about her sex life," said the report. 2023 www.detroitnews.com. Former car guy Kevin Rinke is ready to spend $10 million of his own cash to become Michigan's next governor, but first he has to win a crowded 12-persons GOP primary to face Gov. Tom Wolf (PA) handed the company $1.65 billion in tax breaks over 25 years. Election results and vote counts for candidates for office, ballot questions, and party enrollment and voter registration and turnout statistics. He said helikely would have started a career at IBM, where he worked in Southfield during his senior year, had a hiring freeze not delayed his plans to join the firm. Founder of Oakland Hills Community Church, Rebandt is the father of four children. Using Google, we found a few additional cases that were not listed in the Heritage Foundation database. In its March report, the auditors office said it found 2,775 (0.02%) of the 11,725,897 votes cast in eight elections from May 2019 through November 2020 were cast by electors deceased as of election day according to QVF voter history. Its different, its got twists and turns. Southeast Michigan businessman Kevin Rinke on Monday formally announced his candidacy for governor. Kevin Rinke. The former president's support of Dixon now puts him on the same side in the GOP primary as the family of Betsy DeVos, who served as Trump's education secretary. Rinke said he and four other partners use the company to work with Wounded Warriors Outdoors, bringing wounded veterans to a hunting lodge near Trinidad, Colorado. When it was Steve Cohen's (D-TN) turn to speak, he asked the panel of witnesses, which included two doctors, what has been actually proven to work when it comes to reducing the spread of drugs. He has spent millions. With 202 employees in three dealerships, Kevin Rinke's company is one of the top-ranking GM sales operations globally. Klicken Sie auf Einstellungen verwalten um weitere Informationen zu erhalten und Ihre Einstellungen zu verwalten. He was sentenced last April to five years of probation. The allegations against businessman Kevin Rinke, who ran his family's suburban Detroit auto-dealership empire in the 1990s, are particularly graphic. "We bring in prosthetics people, we bring in people that are qualified therapists.". "I am incredibly grateful to have the president's endorsement, but it doesn't stop what I am doing," Dixon said. "I'm running to be the 50th governor of the state of Michigan," businessman Kevin Rinke told the cheering crowd of dozens of his supporters at a bar in Plymouth. Unsurprisingly Rinke is leaving a few things out. Michigan also has already an incredibly clean voter roll system and we maintain our rolls in accordance with federal election law, said Tracy Wimmer, a spokesperson for the office. Bartman, a registered Republican, also tried but was unable to obtain an absentee ballot in the name of his mother-in-law, who died in 2019. Are they worth, KFC bringing back buzzworthy item after 9 years, Students pepper-sprayed at anti-racism protest, Man steals bus at JFK airport, drives through NYC, COVID fraudster extradited after year on the run, TikTok sets new default time limits for minors, LAPD may not send armed officers to these police, Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. We report because the news impacts all of us. The president has lost people across the country where he has endorsed. He has pleaded not guilty. His arrest related to the Capitol riots briefly catapulted him to the top of polls. Odom voiced support for Rinke based on Dixon's stance on abortion. So, yes, some ballots cast by registered voters who later died before the election do escape the states verification process. SEE MORE: Rinke zombie ad raises questions on 2020 election. He has pleaded not guilty. Kevin Rinke, self-funded businessman from Bloomfield Township ; Garrett Soldano, chiropractor from Kalamazoo County; . IN OTHER NEWS: GOP Oversight chair is already hinting at contempt of Congress charges for Hunter Biden, "You've made your choice," Lee tweeted. "Kevin is balanced, he is a hard worker and he will be great as governor.". public opinion surveys and is considered the longest of long shots in the primary. and such a cut would devastate many schools. All rights reserved. Whitmer, Kevin Rinke channels Trumps business outsider label in MI governors race, eliminate Michigan's 4.25 percent personal income tax. You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. (Michael Buck/WOOD TV8 via AP, File) - 2NJT4GC from Alamy's library of millions of high resolution . In recent weeks, Dixon has emerged as the frontrunner, scoring the endorsement of former President Donald Trump, the powerful DeVos family in west Michigan and groups including the Michigan Chamber of Commerce, Right to Life of Michigan and the Police Officers Association of Michigan. When he entered the race for governor in Michigan, Kevin Rinke said there is no information that says that the election was stolen from Trump, although he said there are significant irregularities that have been exposed in the past election in Michigan.. Who's in, out of race? He rose to prominence in 2020 organizing protests against Whitmers COVID-19 lockdown. According to USA Today, Morphew told investigators that he cast his wifes ballot for Trump because I wanted Trump to win. Aug. 1, 2022, 4:04 PM UTC ByShaquille Brewster BRIGHTON, Mich. Last Friday, former. Maltz acknowledged that "many" migrants are coming over the border simply to find a better life, but added that "we also have terrorists, we have rapists, we have sexual predators" who illegally cross as well. Lee immediately took to Twitter to complain about it: "My personal Twitter account @BasedMikeLee has been suspended. In 1988, Rinke's elder brother and two other pilots diedwhen their training flight crashed just after takeoff at what was then Oakland-Pontiac Airport in Waterford. Five Republican candidates square off in the Aug. 2 primary election. All this points to the inescapable conclusion that Rinke is wrong to claim that dead people always vote Democrat. He also is misleading Michigan voters when he suggests that ballots cast illegally on behalf of decreased voters is a widespread problem, or that his state isnt doing a thing to fix voter fraud.. The sudden death of Michael Rinke, 34, brought shock and trauma for Kevin, then 25. This political game is interesting to me. This male employee was sexually harassed by Kevin Rinke. Hesaid he crushed all childhood competitors when it was time to sell boxes of chocolate to support Red Barons football. "This is the Shell Pennsylvania Petrochemicals Complex in Monaca, PA, which cost $6 billion and won over politicians hypnotized to focus on its 600 blue-collar jobs and ignore the global warming risks from the kind of air pollution also linked to everything from asthma to cancer," wrote Bunch. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. Kevin Rinke can trace his family's roots on Michigan soil back for generations. In his Lansing speech, Rinke said that "the insurance industry, which manages that fund, gets paid about $182 million a year to manage the fund," and "that's pretty good money.". Kevin learned the value of hard work as a young man in Southeastern Michigan. Vaccinated but not boosted, Rinke, who said he has twice had mild COVID-19 infections since the pandemic began, slams Whitmer for her handling of the crisis. Michigan Republican candidates for governor Ryan Kelley, from left, Garrett Soldano, Tudor Dixon and Kevin Rinke appear at a debate in Grand Rapids, Mich., July 6, 2022. "Once, when employees were looking at pictures of newborn babies, Rinke commented on how well-endowed one of the baby boys was, the lawsuit states. In Florida, a self-described Democrat who supports President Donald Trump was charged in October 2020 with filing a false ballot application using his deceased wifes name, according to WFLA, an NBC affiliate in Tampa Bay. This thing was less than half the average cost of a car, even if you . He said the fact Clinton conceded that the actuarial tables extend to age 107 supports his position. For more detail, check out earlier Bridge reporting on their stances on abortion, race and gender, guns and taxes, jobs and the economy, and education. Rinke is running for Michigan governor with TV and digital ads touting himself as a conservative outsider and criticizing Gov. Rinke's supporters also were not flummoxed Saturday by news of Trump's endorsement, saying they were voting for Rinke because ofhis character, focus on policyissues and vision for Michigan. Rinke predicted Tuesday would be aninteresting day in Michigan politics with a lot of surprises. "I don't acknowledge the term 'white privilege,' " he said. "I think just making Michigan a better, safer, more prosperous place to live.". Rinke says over the last 30 years his private and public business experience in automotive and health care has prepared him to run for Governor. First, there is a federal law the National Voter Registration Act that requires election officials in every state to maintain accurate and current voter registration lists, as the Department of Justice says on its website. But, as the report shows, more than twice as many ballots were rejected (5,838) than accepted (2,775) during the eight elections that were reviewed by the auditors office. Lee tweeted that his team is "seeking answers.". Married with three grown children, Rinke, who also isa pilot, grew up in Grosse Pointe Farms. Doug Tribou: You owned and operated businesses in a couple of different industries, including car dealerships. Hes also facing misdemeanors related to the riots that could imprison him for a year. "Already dangerous air pollution from the plant is way over the legal limits that environmentalists had, during the state permitting process, complained were far too lax," wrote Bunch. "There's way too much rhetoric," Rinke said in an interview. Undergraduate fellow Sean Christensen contributed to this article. Five Michigan Republicans running for governor in Tuesdays primary have some of the lowest name recognition of candidates in modern memory, None of the candidates have held elected office and all have similar positions on the issues, favoring criminalizing abortion and opposing gun control and what they consider critical race theory. Kevin Rinke, a local auto dealer millionaire is among the candidates seeking the Republican nomination for Michigan governor visits the Detroit Free Press on Feb. 4, 2022, for an interview.. "Survivor guilt is a funny thingIve experienced it," he said. At a glance: Rinke is probably the most moderate of all the candidates, but he is still quite conservative. Michael Buck/AP. ", READ: 'Tie all those pieces together': Former Trump lawyer draws a map for DOJ's criminal prosecution. The Pierce County Prosecutors Office in Washington state successfully pressed charges against three people for casting ballots in the name of deceased relatives. Whitmer didn't fix road flooding or accept responsibility, Rinke- If we ran our business the way Whitmer runs our state, we'd be ridiculed, scorned, and bankrupt. Issues: Rinke is the only candidate who would allow abortion ban exemptions for pregnancies caused by rape and incest, not just to save the life of a mother. 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