Karen Spranger
Update, 11:25 a.m. Wednesday: Macomb County Clerk Karen Spranger will appeal a judge’s decision to oust her, Spranger’s deputy clerk said, the Detroit News reports.
“She’s not removed,” Jackie Ryan told the media in the parking lot of the building where her office is housed. “She’s appealing. She will be appealing.”
“This is a wrong being done to her,” Ryan said.
Update, 3:37 p.m. Tuesday: A judge rule that Karen Spranger wasn't legally elected as the Macomb County clerk and register of deeds because she lied about her residency in her election filings, and should be removed from office immediately, WDIV reports.
St. Clair County Circuit Judge Daniel Kelly on Tuesday ordered the Macomb County Executive's Office to remove Spranger.
"It feels like 100 pounds off of my shoulders," Macomb County Deputy Executive Mark Deldin tells the station.
County officials said she'll be removed immediately and can appeal, The Macomb Daily reports.
WDIV's reporter tweets:
I’m inside the clerk’s office. They’re looking for deputies and looking to take her badge
— Māra MacDonald (@maramacdonald) March 27, 2018
Original article, Tuesday Morning
Just like President Donald Trump, embattled Macomb County Clerk Karen Spranger has managed to stay in the news through a series of controversial actions.
Karen Spranger: "You will be subject to what I'm telling you."
She rode into office on his Republican coattails in 2016 and now is turning to the commander in chief for help,Jameson Cook of The Macomb Daily reports:
Embattled Macomb County Clerk Karen Spranger and her deputy Jackie Ryan say they have enlisted the help of President Trump in their feuds with county officials, including a call for federal marshals coming to the county.
Spranger, in a bizarre, meandering monologue, last week told members of the county Ethics Board that she expected to gain “authority” from the president to help Ryan in her defense against an ethics complaint made by Frank Cusumano, who ironically is Spranger’s attorney and accuses Ryan of threatening him in a voice mail.
“If my letter gets answered . . . in two days the president of the United States will give me staffing authority,” Spranger told the board, according to an audio recording. “I’m telling you now as soon as that gets signed, those documents come down, that authority will be executed to the way it is supposed to be and you will be subject to what I’m telling you ahead of time.”
County officials are trying to remove Spranger through a federal lawsuit. They claim she lied about her residency when running for office.
