SAGINAW, MI - In a matter of eight weeks, Saginaw County Sheriff William Federspiel managed to gather a 10-piece band together and perform publicly, singing as Bob Seger with the Shakedown Band.

But, after a 2022 convention overhauled the executive committee of the Saginaw County Republican Party — an effort that later included a courts-involved, intra-party fight over control of the ...