The Donald Trump-backed candidate for state attorney general says he supports the move by his former opponent—Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, a Democrat—to threaten to prosecute a GOP township candidate over her Facebook posts.
Matthew Deperno, Nessel’s former opponent and the lawyer for Michigan’s Kalamazoo County Republican Party, said Kerry Lynn Elieff likely broke a law against election interference when her campaign’s Facebook account posted a video on polling locations in Ross Township.
Elieff was a candidate for township supervisor. She lost an Aug. 6 GOP primary to incumbent Supervisor Christina Hutchings.
Days before the primary, Elieff told The Daily Signal, she received a cease-and-desist letter from Nessel’s office warning that she could be prosecuted if she didn’t remove the Facebook post.
But Deperno, a fellow Republican…