In a failure by their fact-checking team, the Detroit Free Press on Monday reported that former auto industry executive/business consultant Perry Johnson had launched his second bid for the governor’s mansion in the Great Lakes State. Everything else about the story was correct, but they fucked up on the ordinal aspect of it as Johnson’s alleged first campaign in 2022 technically never actually happened because he – along with four other hopefuls in the ten-candidate GOP primary field that year – was disqualified when the canvassing firms they used for gathering their ballot access petition signatures turned out to have submitted thousands of falsified names.
So really it’s Johnson’s first governor campaign, and one in which the pitch is “We can deliver better services at lower cost by running state government with the same efficiency, accountability, and a results-driven mindset we used to help save the auto industry and businesses across the country.”
Sounds great, especially when you ignore the fact that Johnson pissed away $27 million of his own money on that nascent pre-campaign, all of it gone because he couldn’t be bothered to apply anything resembling efficiency, accountability, or a results-driven mindset to his political ambitions.