MIRS Monday, Aug. 3, 2020

The head of the Whitmer Recall effort allegedly gambled away as much as $2,000 from the campaign and then claimed a girlfriend stole it? An odd tale about the doomed effort to recall Gov. Gretchen Whitmer from office as uncovered by Simon Schuster from the Michigan Campaign Finance Network (38:20). 

 

How to cut $3.1 billion from the state budget with Eric Lupher from the Citizens Research Council. Sen. Tom Barrett gets COVID-19 and the impact on the state Senate. Why Republicans may need to move off the nursing home story and Sinclair Broadcasting's Mikenzie Frost's last podcast before her move to the Baltimore media market on this week's episode.