By Ben Solis | Senior Reporter
Quoted and Noted
“You had a lot of rich people who tried to inject a ton of money, outside groups who came to Michigan, to buy a seat, to buy these races.
Michiganders are smarter than that and they’re telling these people they’re not for sale.”
- Shawn Fain, president of the UAW, on the labor movement’s political outreach efforts in the 2026 election.
Governor-elect Jocelyn Benson spoke to reporters the morning after winning the gubernatorial election, telling reporters that her agenda for the first 100 days would be rolled out soon. (Photo by Katherine Dailey/Michigan Advance)
By Katherine Dailey
At her first press conference as Governor-elect, Jocelyn Benson repeatedly emphasized the importance of working with legislators across the aisle to deliver on her campaign promises of lowering costs and increasing wages — even as she will be governing alongside a large Democratic trifecta in the Legislature.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Democratic Congressional candidate Christina Hines take questions from the press following a campaign launch in Rochester, Oct. 28, 2026. (Photo Kyle Davidson/Michigan Advance)
By Kyle Davidson
The representative-elect says lowering costs will always be a priority “because I’m living it, and all of my neighbors are living it.”
United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain speaks at the Michigan Democratic Party’s election night watch party in Detroit on Nov. 5, 2024. (Photo by Andrew Roth/Michigan Advance)
By Ben Solis
DETROIT — The political outreach efforts of Michigan’s labor movement played a significant role in the 2026 elections as Democrats helped elect candidates who put the plight of working people first in their campaign messages and policy planks, said UAW President Shawn Fain on Tuesday evening.
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TRIVIA OF THE DAY
What hit movie had its world premiere on this day in 2004 at Celebration Cinema IMAX in Grand Rapids?
Let us know @michiganadvance on Bluesky and check back in later today for the answer.
Wednesday's answer: Charity Island sits in Saginaw Bay and is believed to have been utilized for thousands of years by Native Americans as a source for the stone called “chert,” used for making stone tools.
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