Share February 17, 2021, 11:57 AM A Republican strategist who was executive director of Michigan s party for four years now calls it out in two national interviews. The state party has lost its soul in the view of Jeff Timmer, a Lansing public affairs consultant who led its staff from 2005-09 a time of recovery after Gov. Jennifer Granholm s defeat of Lt. Gov. Dick Posthumus and her 2006 re-election.
Jeff Timmer: People we had never heard of, they now control the levers of the party.
(Photo: Two Rivers Public Affairs) Just over a decade later, the political veteran sees the Michigan Republican Party as more Trumpy today than it was before the election, he tells The New York Times.