Compare Your Candidates
Charting the 2010 Michigan Governor's Race
(Post-primary update, September 2010)
In order to provide you with a quick, comprehensive guide to your choices in the November general election, we selected a range of issues that are most integral to the protection and proper stewardship of the state's incredible natural resources.
You can download our updated Brief Analysis of Rick Snyder and Virg Bernero as a .pdf file
Our updated Detailed Analysis of Snyder and Bernero also is available as a .pdf file.
We wanted to answer one simple question: How do the candidates compare to each other on the important environmental issues facing Michigan?
The following judgments of candidate positions are drawn from a combination of sources, but most notably the Candidates Forum hosted by the Michigan LCV Education Fund on May 12th and the candidates’ own websites and platforms. Also, when appropriate, we let their prior actions and voting records do the talking.
What’s the deal with “unclear” and “no mention”?
Wherever possible, a solid position is noted as either “support” or “oppose.” However, when a candidate’s actions on an issue were ambiguous or contradictory, there was no attempt made to declare a position for them or put words in their mouth; in that case, it is simply listed that their stance is “unclear.”
When there is a “no mention,” it is to signify that the candidate’s platform does not specifically reference the issue in question. Although we employed a thorough list of public sources and documents in researching this chart, a “no mention” is not meant to imply that a candidate does not have an opinion on a subject. In these instances, we encourage you to directly e-mail the candidates to ask them to clarify their thoughts on the particular matter of interest to you. Their campaign e-mail addresses can be found at the bottom of the chart.
Pre-Primary Analysis of Candidates:
Our Brief Analysis is available as a .pdf file.
You also can download our Full Analysis with citations as a .pdf file.
