LANSING – As speculation about Governor Rick Snyder mounting a presidential bid continues to swirl, Snyder on Thursday will depart for Nevada to begin a three-day swing that includes two major events on the national political calendar.
Snyder will first travel to Nevada, which is one of the first four states to hold a primary or caucus on the Republican presidential nomination calendar, for the Republican Jewish Coalition’s spring meeting.
He plans to meet informally with political and business leaders while there, said Darren Littell, who just started working for the Templar Baker Group, the firm recently started by former Michigan Republican Party Chair Bobby Schostak. Templar Baker is handling the new 501(c)4 nonprofit Snyder’s supporters have launched called “Making Government Accountable: The Michigan Story.”
Saturday, Snyder will be in Washington, D.C., as the guest of billionaire former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg for the White House Correspondents Association’s annual dinner. Monday, he will head to Los Angeles to participate in the Milken Institute’s Global Conference as part of a panel on Detroit looking at the city’s emergence from bankruptcy.
Littell said Snyder is traveling to Nevada because that is where the RJC is meeting, not because it is one of the first states to hold a Republican primary or caucus. Littell said he could not say with whom Snyder will meet.
Snyder has fanned the flames of speculation a bit on whether he is considering a presidential bid. But at this stage, it remains unlikely given that he has yet to take serious steps like forming a super political action committee.
In a video interview with a Detroit area newspaper, Snyder said his attention is focused now on fixing Michigan�s roads through a ballot measure on May 5 that would raise the state�s sales tax by 1 percent to raise more than $1 billion a year, some of which would go towards fixing the state�s aging roads and bridges.
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