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A close-up portrait shows former Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, a fair-skinned man with blue eyes and thinning light hair looking toward the side with a neutral expression. He is wearing a dark, subtly patterned blazer over an open-collared white shirt.

Michigan governor candidate Mike Duggan says his friends dropped $100 million to flip state House for GOP

Former Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan is pitching himself as a bipartisan unifier in his independent bid for governor — but his ties to the mega-donors who financed the Republican takeover of the Michigan House suggest a different story. During a September zoom meeting with the lobbying firm Kelley Cawthorne, the company’s President Melissa McKinley asked […]

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