A2: Governor’s Race
The Detroit News reports that Rick Snyder, an Ann Arbor venture capitalist who’s making a bid for the GOP gubernatorial nomination, has released his federal tax returns for 2007 and 2008, showing that he paid more than $500,000 in taxes on cumulative income of more than $2.5 million. During that time he contributed nearly $1 million to charity, according to the report, including $608,400 to the University of Michigan. [Source]