LANSING, Mich. — Two Republican gubernatorial hopefuls disqualified from the August primary ballot because of a wave of fraudulent petition signatures plan to sue the companies and individual circulators accused of forging thousands of signatures.
Former Detroit police Chief James Craig filed his suit in Kent County Circuit Court Monday and Bloomfield Hills businessman Perry Johnson said he is meeting with lawyers to sue the groups that managed his signature-gathering effort.
Craig and his main petition circulating company, Vanguard Field Strategies, filed suit against In Field Strategies and 18 circulators listed in a Michigan Bureau of Elections report as signature-gatherers suspected of forging signatures. The complaint said the Craig campaign agreed to pay circulators $13 a signature.
