Nolan Fin
The Detroit News' editorial page editor will skip the critically important line atop November ballots.
"I remain a conscientious objector in this election," writes Nolan Finley, who considers both major party presidential nominees too odious to vote for.
Nolan Finley: "It’s not me who’s changed."
Finley writes about his electoral withdrawal as a response to "scores of emails and messages pouring into my in-boxes from Republicans and conservatives who accuse me of falling away from my principles and political loyalties because I can’t embrace the GOP’s presidential nominee."
It’s not me who’s changed. It’s the Republican Party.
The GOP introduced a cancer into its body six years ago that has now metastasized. I was among those who cheered when the 2010 tea party wave swept into office record numbers of Republicans. But I’ve come to rue the consequences. . . .
It’s distressing to see Reagan Republicans shape-shifting to reconcile the traditional principles of the conservative movement with their non-traditional candidate.
I can’t do that.
The veteran Detroit journalist, a Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame inductee who joined The News in 1976, also rejects the idea "that not voting for Trump is a default vote for [Hillary] Clinton."
-- Alan Stamm
