It is the final week before Election Day and in what may be the closest race at the top of the ticket, Attorney General Dana Nessel is trying to hold her seat against challenger Matthew DePerno.
“The reason why he’s polling well is because people don’t know who he is,” said Nessel in her hometown of Plymouth.
“My name is Matthew DePerno. I’m the Republican nominee for Attorney General,” DePerno said at a rally with Tudor Dixon in Grand Rapids Monday, “I am running against a crazy Dana Nessel.”
Not many people knew who Kalamazoo defense attorney DePerno was, until he came to the forefront of the push to overturn the 2020 election. He repeatedly represented and filed lawsuits that failed to overturn the election but it created a persona that Republicans rallied behind.
“He is incredibly extreme on the issues,” said Nessel, “Where I don’t think we’ve ever seen anyone before who’s run for such an important office.”
‘Extreme’ is also a word many use for Nessel herself. Her personality at times getting in the way and being used against her.
“Our children are underachieving, and Dana Nessel comes out and says drag queens make everything better,” said DePerno to a crowd of about 200, “She says, ‘I want to put a drag queen in every classroom.’”
“I think to take something that I clearly said in jest and pretend that it’s a policy point,” said Nessel, “Is really a lack of policy on the other side.”
“The media comes out and says, ‘Oh she was only joking,’ Dana Nessel was not joking people,” said DePerno, “This is part of her social radical agenda to destroy the state.”
The Attorney General does not have the power to enforce drag queen tutors but they are the state’s top cop. Crime is on the rise nationwide, and in Michigan.
“We need to support our police. We need to fund our police and we need to make sure we are arresting and locking up dangerous criminals once again,” said DePerno.
“My opponent supports ghost guns. He thinks they should be totally legal. There should be no bans on them whatsoever and that’s a fundamental difference in opinion,” said Nessel, “I think his approach really is the detriment of the public and I think that homicide and other serious assaultive crimes could be prevented if we take those guns off the street. He wants to put more of them on the street.”
Another point of impact that we may see from the next AG, abortion access.
“I’m running against a guy that wants to criminalize birth control,” said Nessel, “He compares Plan B to illegal shipments of fentanyl.”
Whether Proposal 3 passes or fails, the state will see years of litigation fighting the topic in court. The Attorney General can determine how strong those fights are.
“Dana Nessel supports the radical Proposal 3 which allows for abortions at any time, up to the date of delivery. Is that what we need?” DePerno said to the crowd.
Nessel says a vote for DePerno is stronger than a vote for Prop 3.
“If you think that those things are important, and most people of Michigan do, and then you vote for Matthew DePerno, it’s like you’re throwing your vote away,” said Nessel, “He’s not going to defend Proposal 3. He has bragged that he wants to do everything he can to undermine Prop 3.”
“We’ve got the momentum and the Democrats know it,” said DePerno, “There will be a red tsunami if you people keep your foot on the gas.”
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