Clairene Jorella was furious.
In the northern stretches of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula, the Crawford County Board of Canvassers had just opened its meeting to certify the August primary when Jorella, 83 years old and one of two Democrats on the panel, laid into her Republican counterparts.
Glaring, she said she was gobsmacked by the partisan opinions they’d recently aired publicly.
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