The Metro: Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson explains her ‘purposeful’ battle in new book
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Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson recounts a career of "standing up to bullies" in her new book "The Purposeful Warrior" as her gubernatorial campaign ramps up.
At the beginning of Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s new memoir, armed protesters surround her house.
It’s December 2020, one month after the presidential election that Joe Biden won. He was not the preferred candidate of the armed mob shouting outside Benson’s home.
The protestors yelled “treason” and “lock her up.”
In the moment, Michigan’s top election official tried to play it cool, all while her 4-year-old son sat unknowingly in front of the television watching “How the Grinch Stole Christmas.”
Benson was indeed scared that night. But as she points out in her book, “The Purposeful Warrior,” “standing up to bullies” is nothing new for her.
She did it investigating white supremacists in the American South, while she was dean of Wayne State’s law school, and during her tenure as Michigan’s Secretary of State amid President Donald Trump’s lies of a stolen election.
Benson joined The Metro this week to discuss her new book and why she is running to be Michigan’s next governor.
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