Shri Thanedar, Sandy Pensler, Bill Schuette, John James, Making Michigan Government Accountable or Jim Hines. Who released the best video ad during Super Bowl weekend? MIRS invites Josh Pugh and Brian Began from Grassroots Midwest to help answer that question. Also will Democratic gubernatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed get on the ballot?

What was the headline from the 2017 year-end campaign finance reports last Wednesday? And finally, MIRS has finality in the case of the scratching rodent who had taken up residency in MIRS World Headquarters.