Michigan: Secretary of State says donations to Governor for recall fight must be returned or donated

The $3.4 million that Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) raised to fight off a recall will have to be returned to donors or donated to other sources according to a filing by Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson. Benson's filing was part of a lawsuit filed by the GOP Chairman Ron Weiser looking to declare the recall exception unconstitutional (though, oddly, it was about the GOP preferred candidates for governor. Since there is no replacement race -- the LG takes over -- I'm not sure how that would work). 

Whitmer was able to raise funds in unlimited amounts, rather than the $7,150 usual limit. Anyone paying attention to the California and Wisconsin recalls will be well familiar with this result. Petitioners would need 1,062,647 signatures to get on the ballot and here's a bill that is being proposed to get the recall law in-line with other campaign finance rules.