Michigan Democratic Attorney General Dana Nessel said on Monday that Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, also a Democrat, violated campaign law when she announced her 2026 gubernatorial bid in a government building in January. According to Nessel’s office, however, the state law does not provide any mechanism for punishing Benson, who oversees elections and campaign finance, The Detroit News reported.
On January 22, days after she accidentally posted her campaign announcement on social media, Benson officially launched her 2026 bid for Michigan governor inside the Richard H. Austin Building, which houses the Department of State in Lansing. As The Daily Wire reported at the time, Benson was criticized for likely violating Michigan law, which prohibits “a person acting for a public body” from using “funds, personnel, office space, computer hardware or software, property,…
