After Melissa Gilbert moved to Michigan with her husband Timothy Busfield, she became interested in the local politics. She was particularly interested in the state’s 2014 gubernatorial campaign that had Democrat Mark Schauer running against Republican incumbent Rick Snyder. She liked Schauer and his running mate, Lisa Brown, and wanted to support them. So Gilbert and Busfield made some phone calls to get the former Little House on the Prairie star involved.
Melissa Gilbert | Nick Hagen for The Washington Post via Getty Images How Melissa Gilbert came to help Mark Schauer’s campaign
Gilbert liked Schauer and Brown and what they stood for. She also disliked Snyder.
“The more I read, the more I felt that this guy Rick Snyder was a typical neocon, antifeminist, anti- choice, anti-immigrant, xenophobic, homophobic, creepy climate denier,” she wrote in her 2022 memoir Back to the Prairie.
It “infuriated” Gilbert to think of Michigan, a previously progressive state,...
Melissa Gilbert | Nick Hagen for The Washington Post via Getty Images How Melissa Gilbert came to help Mark Schauer’s campaign
Gilbert liked Schauer and Brown and what they stood for. She also disliked Snyder.
“The more I read, the more I felt that this guy Rick Snyder was a typical neocon, antifeminist, anti- choice, anti-immigrant, xenophobic, homophobic, creepy climate denier,” she wrote in her 2022 memoir Back to the Prairie.
It “infuriated” Gilbert to think of Michigan, a previously progressive state,...
- 5/21/2023
- by Kelsey Goeres
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
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