MIRS catches up with state Senate Majority Leader Winnie Brinks (D-Grand Rapids) now that Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, Democrats' nominee for governor, has selected Brinks to be her running mate as Lieutenant Governor (2:15). 

Podcast host Samantha Shriber was in Mount Pleasant over the weekend covering the Michigan Republican Party's nominating convention. Second-term Representative Bill G. Schuette (R-Midland) gives updates as chair emeritus of the House Republican Campaign Committee (HRCC) (11:20). 

MIRS also brings listeners into scrums with Republicans' Secretary of State and Attorney General nominees, Anthony Forlini and Doug Lloyd (19:55). 

However, three miles outside of the convention, Mount Pleasant City Commissioner Ryon Skalitzky was recruiting locals to join the Isabella County Democratic Socialists of America (25:50)