Bill Schuette on the podium (bottom right) and on screen during Monday
The presidential race, the World Series of American politics, is in full play.
Bill Schuette on the podium (bottom right) and on screen during Monday afternoon's address.
U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Flint, doesn't hold back with a statement blasting Republican Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette for agreeing to speak Monday at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, where the theme is "Make America Safe Again:"
“In stepping up to the podium today Attorney General Schuette is endorsing all that Donald Trump’s Republican Party now stands for. How Bill Schuette can look himself in the mirror and defend such divisiveness and hate baffles me. Schuette is supporting a candidate who has called women ‘slobs’ and ‘fat pigs,’ insulted African-Americans and Arab-Americans, and mocked people with disabilities. As Michiganders, we know we are better than such hateful rhetoric.
“Scarier than Trump and Schuette’s divisive words are their dangerous policies. As Attorney General, Schuette has sought to divide Michiganders by waging losing lawsuits against marriage equality, affordable health care and protections for transgender students in schools. Trump has claimed working families wages are ‘too high’ and that he would abolish the minimum wage, all while pushing more tax breaks for the wealthy.
“Trump and Schuette are standing hand-in-hand together in Cleveland, but make no mistake – they do not stand with Michigan’s working families.”
As an aside, we note that both Kildee and Schuette have been mentioned as possible candidates for governor in 2018, and could possibly end up running against one another.
As it turns out, the attorney general's remarks kept Trump at arms length, rather than hand-in-hand. Kildee tweets this minutes after the afternoon appearance:
Noticeably absent from @SchuetteOnDuty's speech just now at #RNCinCle? Any mention of his party leader, Donald Trump.
— Dan Kildee (@dankildee) July 18, 2016
