A former Detroit left-wing activist, who was picked by Fuhrer/Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to be her Lt. Governor. His background is in progressive politics and computer programming — he used to work for Microsoft, was a political organizer for the left-wing, Soros-funded MoveOn.org and managed social media for Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign. Gilchrist ran for Detroit city clerk in 2017 and was endorsed by a range of left-leaning groups, including Our Revolution, which grew out of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential run.7
When Gilcrest ran against Detroit Clerk Janice Winfrey in 2017, a late-night surge of absentee ballots was delivered at 3:00AM which changed the outcome from a Gilcrest win to a Winfrey win. Gilcrest, now the Michigan Lieutenant Governor, called it a ‘catastrophe’ at the time.8
CCP ties
Garlin Gilchrist attended a controversial “collaboration summit” between Chinese Communist Party officials and U.S. Governors. The summit, which occurred in May of 2019, was touted as an “exclusive deal making opportunity” for closer financial ties between the Chinese government and their U.S. counterparts.
The summit featured “one-on-one meetings” between the U.S. and their Chinese Communist Party counterparts, and, at the time, was met with harsh criticism from the Trump administration for its “ties to Beijing’s overseas propaganda wing – the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFCC), which co-hosted the conference.”
Its parent organization, China General Chamber of Commerce, also features a host of executives from controversial Chinese Communist Party-linked companies on its board such as Huawei, China Telecom, China Mobile, and Inspur Group. All of the aforementioned firms have been identified by the U.S. Department of Defense as proxies for the Chinese military for over two decades.
