When a Republican primary candidate for a local ownship post in Michigan made posts on social media, she didn’t anticipate what she characterized as a “Shut up, lady” letter from the state attorney general’s office threatening to prosecute her.
The GOP candidate, Kerry Lynn Elieff, described new polling locations in a June 12 post on the Facebook page for her campaign for Ross Township supervisor, as well as on other social media accounts.
“I wanted to get ahead of this. I wasn’t sure if voters realized that the voting location where some voted for decades had changed,” Elieff told The Daily Signal.
“Late last week, I was shocked,” she said, describing how she got a cease-and-desist letter from the Michigan Attorney General’s Office.
The letter from Robbin N. Liddell, chief of that office’s Criminal Trials Division, arrived just weeks after…
