MI-GOV: Schuette asked staffers to talk 'presidential politics' on state time
LANSING Attorney General Bill Schuette asked more than a dozen state employees to join him on a 2015 weekday conference call to discuss presidential politics, and offered state employees financial incentives to secure endorsements for then presidential candidate Jeb Bush, according to emails obtained by the Free Press.
The emails were sent and received on personal email accounts not state government ones but one was sent by Schuette's state scheduler during office hours on a Monday morning. That email scheduled a conference call during state office hours for 3:30 that afternoon.
Two other emails were sent by Schuette after work hours, but urged state employees to meet political endorsement target deadlines by close of business on work weekdays. State offices close at 5 p.m.
The emails surfaced Tuesday amid several earlier allegations that Schuette used state employees to perform political or personal work on state time.
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