Two allegations of campaign finance violations against Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer have been dismissed. In a Dec. 21 statement, the office of Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson announced the two complaints filed against Whitmer have been resolved with no reason to believe any violation occurred in either. A complaint filed this summer by the Michigan Freedom Fund, a conservative group, pointed to Whitmer’s campaign finance report as evidence she had raked in $3.4 million in the first two quarters of 2021, via 154 donations, all of which exceeded the $7,150 statutory cap on individual contributions. The figure has since grown to $4 million. Whitmer’s second-quarter fundraising report showed five individuals donated $250,000 and four donors gave $100,000 each to her campaign. Ironically, it was the numerous petition drives to recall Whitmer, a Democrat, for her pandemic lockdown policies that made these large contributions possible. In the early 1980s, a Michigan …