Two main goals emerged from the Democratic Party of Michigan’s spring 2022 State Endorsement Convention held in Detroit last weekend—saving democracy and making abortion a state constitutional right.
The April 9 proceedings featured speeches by Michigan’s three highest state-level elected officials, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Attorney General Dana Nessel, and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, all Democrats.
The three incumbents were all elected for the first time in November 2018.
Because of concerns over COVID-19, many of the delegates participated remotely from home. All voting was done at the convention by cellphone app.
Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson speaks in Detroit, Mich., on Aug. 18, 2020. (Rebecca Cook/Reuters)
In Benson’s acceptance speech, she told delegates that she viewed her first election as the dawn of “a new day for democracy.”
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