{"id":1672947,"date":"2022-10-04T20:49:32","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T00:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1672947"},"modified":"2022-10-04T20:51:02","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T00:51:02","slug":"whitmer-endorsed-candidate-loses-support-from-dems-after-police-reports-show-he-was-investigated-for-alleged-school-shooting-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/whitmer-endorsed-candidate-loses-support-from-dems-after-police-reports-show-he-was-investigated-for-alleged-school-shooting-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitmer-Endorsed Candidate Loses Support From Dems After Police Reports Show He Was Investigated For Alleged School Shooting Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhitmer-endorsed-candidate-loses-support-from-dems-after-police-reports-show-he-was-investigated-for-alleged-school-shooting-threat%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1672947&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/michigan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michigan<\/a> Democratic candidate who could become the youngest lawmaker in Michigan history and was endorsed by Governor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/gretchen-whitmer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gretchen Whitmer<\/a> (D-MI) has lost the support of his party.<\/p>\n<p>Michigan House Democrats severed ties this week with 20-year-old Maurice Imhoff of Jackson, Michigan, who is running in a tight race for a seat in the state\u2019s House of Representatives. The party\u2019s distancing from the young candidate comes after police reports were revealed, indicating Imhoff was investigated three separate times while in high school for allegedly making school shooting threats and was on probation for assaulting a police officer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/politics\/michigan\/2022\/10\/04\/michigan-house-dems-cut-ties-with-candidate-after-school-threat-reports\/69538367007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to The Detroit News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Michigan House Democratic Campaign will not be supporting Maurice Imhoff\u2019s campaign for state representative,\u201d Michigan House Democratic Leader Donna Lasinski said.<\/p>\n<p>Lasinski, along with other top Democrats in the state, had recently fundraised with Imhoff, and Whitmer once called him a \u201cpassionate problem solver.\u201d On Tuesday, however, a spokeswoman for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/michigan-governors-race-much-closer-than-previously-suggested-new-poll-shows\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">governor<\/a> said she was no longer supporting Imhoff\u2019s campaign, saying \u201cthe allegations are serious and concerning,\u201d The Detroit News reported.<\/p>\n<p>At 15 years old in December 2016, Imhoff was reportedly investigated by the Jackson County Sheriff\u2019s Office after a fellow student showed her parent a screenshot of Snapchat posts from Imhoff. The Sheriff\u2019s office said the posts allegedly indicated \u201che was going to cause trouble at school and [possibly] shoot up students inside the school and also shoot himself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Imhoff later admitted to posting the threats, saying that he was upset over a recent breakup, among other stresses at school, but he told authorities he would not have followed through on the threats, according to the police report.<\/p>\n<p>Almost two years later, Imhoff was investigated again over an allegation that he \u201creferenced a shooting that was going to take place at Northwest High School\u201d in a conversation with his girlfriend. His girlfriend told police she didn\u2019t believe Imhoff was serious about the threat, and Imhoff said \u201cthe entire situation was blown out of proportion.\u201d He did admit that his girlfriend asked him if he was going to \u201cshoot up the school\u201d and he responded \u201cyup\u201d in a Snapchat message.<\/p>\n<p>The 2018 report added that Imhoff was on probation for assaulting a police officer.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2019, yet another tip alleged that Imhoff \u201cposted on his private story with a gun saying he wanted to shoot people that go to Northwest and Western tomorrow,\u201d according to the police report. Police did not find any of the alleged threats on Imhoff\u2019s phone and no charges were filed against him for the 2019 incident.<\/p>\n<p>As of Tuesday, Imhoff\u2019s Twitter and Instagram accounts had been deleted, and his campaign website made visitors type in a password to gain access.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic candidate ran unopposed in the party\u2019s August 2 primary and is set to face Republican Kathy Schmaltz in the November general election for Michigan\u2019s 46th House district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Michigan Democratic candidate who could become the youngest lawmaker in Michigan history and was endorsed by Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) has lost the support of his party. Michigan House Democrats severed ties this week with 20-year-old Maurice Imhoff of Jackson, Michigan, who is running in a tight race for a seat in the state\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1672949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1672947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1672947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1672949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1672947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1672947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1672947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}