Michigan Dems Statement on Tudor Dixon's Announcement

LANSING - In response to Tudor Dixon’s announcement today, Michigan Democratic Party Chair Curtis Hertel released the following statement: 

“Tudor Dixon may not be on the ballot next year, but she’s recently launched broadsides at both John James and Tom Leonard, and she will continue to influence Michigan Republicans and push them to stake out the most extreme positions possible.”

While on Fox News Radio yesterday, Dixon went on the attack against Leonard: “And I will say locally, we have the same issue in Michigan. So when I say I agree with him, I’ll say even a Republican who is running for office in the state of Michigan had a leadership position in state government, left and became a lobbyist, which means you are using your connections in government to make money for companies who are paying you to do it. And then, now he is still a lobbyist, goes back and decides he’s going to run for an even higher office. So you go from office to making money lobbying off of your relationships to back to office and having the people that you lobbied for make money off of government. I think that your priorities are to make money and you shouldn’t be running for office.” 

After leaving office, Leonard made a lucrative turn towards lobbying and recently told Gongwer that he will remain a lobbyist even as he campaigns for governor — a glaring conflict of interest. 

Dixon also went after John James last week, saying that having people like James “step out of the House to run for other offices… will be a nightmare.” Dixon’s co-host then continued to pile on, “John James has decided to leave the House and run for governor. So that’s now another seat that Republicans will have to spend millions and millions of dollars to defend.”