This story also appeared in Bridge Michigan Less than 24 hours after Donald Trump warned the Detroit Economic Club that the “whole country will end up being like Detroit” if Kamala Harris is elected, her campaign unveiled a new ad slamming his comments. “He should be so goddamn lucky,” narrator Courtney B. Vance, a Detroit […]
Simon D. Schuster
Simon D. Schuster is a Capitol Reporter for Bridge Michigan. Simon joined Bridge Michigan in 2024 after working as MLive's senior political reporter and later covering politics on their investigative team. He spent three years tracking the influence of political money in Michigan as executive director of the Michigan Campaign Finance Network, a nonpartisan nonprofit. A Michigan native, Simon received a bachelor's and a master of public policy from Michigan State University, where he was a policy fellow at the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research. Outside of work you'll find him in Detroit, backpacking northern Michigan or visiting his fiancée in Scandinavia. He lives in Lansing.
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