Republican U.S. Senate hopefuls criss-crossed lower Michigan on Sunday, searching for crucial GOP support in their nip-and-tuck race for the party’s nomination to take on Democratic Sen. Carl Levin.
Just two days before voting to select candidates for November’s general election, Ronna Romney accused Jim Nicholson of a “last dirty trick” by mounting a paid telephone campaign that she said distorts her record and hides the fact the Nicholson campaign paid for them.
A spokesman for Nicholson asserted that his campaign is just trying to make sure supporters go to the polls Tuesday.
Romney got a warm welcome at a Saginaw County GOP picnic, where activists, officials and candidates gathered at an island park to talk politics and listen to speeches.
Romney, 52, of Bloomfield Hills, started the day in the Detroit area, flew to the Saginaw GOP picnic, then left for more campaigning in Dearborn. Nicholson, 53, a Grosse Pointe Farms businessman, began the day in Oakland County, hit a gun-and-knife show, swung through Macomb County and was to cap the day at a Lansing baseball park.
