Update February 22nd: Roemer had dropped out of the race for the Republican nomination. He plans to seek the nomination of the reform party.

(Note: WMUK has requested interviews with all of the Republican presidential primary candidates on Michigan's ballot who are actively campaigning.)

Michigan voters have a chance to weigh in on the Republican presidential nomination during the state's primary on February 28th. But some candidates on the ballot are having a harder time getting their message out than others. One of them is former congressman and Louisiana governor Buddy Roemer, who’s said that Michigan and Arizona are “focus” states for his campaign.

During a telephone interview with WMUK’s Gordon Evans, Battle Creek Enquirer political reporter Barrett Newkirk and reporter Fritz Klug of the Kalamazoo Gazette, Roemer admitted that he hasn’t made much of a dent so far in terms of media coverage. Roemer has not been invited to any of the GOP presidential primary debates, something he blames in part on shifting requirements by debate organizers.

Roemer has made campaign finance reform a major focus of his campaign. He only takes money from individual donors and limits them to only $100. Roemer rejects contributions from political action committees and especially targets the “Super PACs” that have played a large role in the campaign so far. He says they are not truly independent of the candidates they support as required by law. Roemer says without reforming the way political money flows in Washington, nothing will get done in areas like taxes, trade imbalances and job creation.

Although Roemer says he is a committed Republican, he leaves open the possibility of participating in an independent presidential campaign this fall.