SOS SPECULATION
While there’s been plenty of speculation about Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson running for governor in 2026 (she has now formally announced) when both she and Gretchen Whitmer will be boxed out of added time in their current posts, thanks to term limits, not much of anything has been written about who might try to become the next SOS. Fear not, prognosticators are starting to talk about Michigan Senator Jeremy Moss, the Democrat from Southfield whose broad district takes in Bloomfield Township, Bloomfield Hills, Pontiac, Auburn Hills, Lake Angelus, Lathrup Village, and parts of Waterford and Detroit, who is in his final term. We are told that a number of people have approached Moss wondering if he has an interest and as we asked around we found a handful of folk wondering what was next on the trajectory for the senator who has worked his way up, starting as the youngest member of the Southfield City Commission, then the state House from 2014-2018 where he was the Democratic Caucus Whip. Next came the Senate (its first openly gay member) where he has been Assistant Democratic Leader and has chaired both the Elections & Ethics and the Government Operations committees. Add to that his involvement in the state Democratic party. Let’s see what the soothsayers do with this in the coming months.
