Hillary 2.0? Former Michigan AG and Kevin Kijewski Join Forces to Sue Jocelyn Benson Over Secret Gmail Used for State Business and Communications With Southern Poverty Law Center

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s name will be on the ballot next week as the Democratic candidate for governor. It’s not clear, however, to Michigan voters whether Benson is working harder to campaign for the state’s top spot or to hide the dirty dealings that have plagued her 8-year career as the state’s top election official.

Much like Crooked Hillary, who spent most of her political career dodging the law, Crooked Jocelyn is now being asked to explain at least one secret email address she reportedly used while in office.

According to a recent lawsuit, Benson did not keep Michigan’s official business on Michigan’s official system. She used a private Gmail account for Secretary of State work — including contact with the Southern Poverty Law Center, the group where she once served on the board, which now sits under a federal indictment for wire fraud and money laundering. She is running for governor on that record.

A private inbox is not a public file. When state work leaves the state server, the public cannot see it and the Department never has to search it. Former Attorney General Mike Cox and Michigan attorney Kevin Kijewski demanded the records. Benson’s Department blacked them out, offered no lawful reason, and sat on the request for 49 days.

A Rochester Hills clerk turned over the same kind of document in two business days: an official multi-state election meeting sent straight to Benson’s Gmail. That is the one private address on paper. No one has shown it is the only one.

Kijewski posted on X:

A FEDERAL INDICTMENT AND A SECRET EMAIL: Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson has been using an email address that isn’t her government account.

We know because her own department blacked it out. No exemption cited.

They blacked it out of records requested about Benson’s connections with Southern Poverty Law Center, which is under federal indictment on eleven counts including wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Their trial starts in October, the month before Michigan votes.

Former Attorney General
@Mike_Cox
asked for those records 113 days ago. He got thirty pages and a $5,154.97 bill. Unacceptable. What’s being hidden?

I joined Mike as co-counsel this week. Today we filed an amended complaint asking the Court of Claims to order the rest produced before ballots go out next month.

Cox and Kijewski are now asking a judge to say the redaction with no explanation broke Michigan’s public records law — and to review the blacked-out pages himself so the court, not Benson’s staff, decides what the public is allowed to see. The filings are in the case. She can admit the Gmail, or she can deny it. What she cannot do is pretend the secret account was never used for state business.

Attorney Kevin Kijewski made a follow-up post on X today about the Benson lawsuit, saying, Benson “has 20 questions to answer. In her own name. By October 14.”

He explained:

For example:

QUESTION 7: Is the blacked-out address the Gmail?

QUESTION 11: Has she used the Gmail to communicate with the Southern Poverty Law Center?

QUESTION 20: Has she DELETED state business from a private account since April?

Admit or deny. In writing. Filed with the court.

SILENCE COUNTS AS YES.

Benson could answer Question 7 today.

46 days to the election. Ballots go out in 6.

The motion.
The 20 questions.

Michigan is having a banner year when it comes to Democrats running for top spots in the state. From Jocelyn Benson, who is the most disliked secretary of state to ever hold the office (don’t take my word for it, look at the comments under any one of her social media posts) to Abdul El-Sayed, the radical, extreme Islamic Socialist running for U.S. Senate.

Both of the far-left candidates have been funded by members of the Soros family. If either candidate is elected, Michigan’s downward slide in trust in elections, education, and economic growth would most certainly continue. Please pray that Jocelyn Benson will finally be held accountable for her unlawful actions and for her belief that she is somehow above the law.