Two Years Running: Michigan’s Legislature just blew the July 1 budget deadline for the second straight year, then rammed through a 1,001-page, 84-billion-dollar spending bill at 8 in the morning after an all-night scramble. Lawmakers had 30 to 40 minutes to read it before voting. One senator called the process what it is: nonsense.
Think about that. EIGHTY FOUR BILLION DOLLARS of your money, a thousand-page bill, and the people voting on it could not possibly have read it. That is not how you run a household, a business, or a state. It is how insiders move money while nobody is looking.
And tucked inside? 125 million dollars in earmarks, district pork projects negotiated in the dark. Yes, there are new disclosure rules now, but disclosure after the fact means nothing if the final bill still lands at midnight and gets voted on before sunrise. Transparency is not a press release. It is giving the people’s representatives time to actually read what they are passing.
The law says July 1. They broke the law again. The bare minimum of governing is doing your one required job, on time, in the open. Michigan keeps getting neither.
I have said it all year and I will keep saying it: we deserve a government that does the people’s business in daylight, not one that treats a legal deadline as optional and a thousand-page bill as a formality.
Let’s make Michigan safe, normal, and responsible again! 🇺🇸
@realDonaldTrump@JDVance@MIGOP@MI_Republicans@Th_Midwesterner@stevegrubershow@MrJustinBarclay@gatewaypundit@Rescue_Michigan@elonmusk@timlovesann@mifairelections@TruckerRandy@DonnieDetroit19@downi75
Breaking……………
Today, June 18, 2026 possible corruption concerning campaign donations to Jocelyn Benson was reported to the FBI.
(https://t.co/ubCRskNd5z)
Report to the FBI tip line concerning possible fraud in campaign donations for Jocelyn Benson
Date: 06-18-26
Time 10:30 AM
The purpose of this is to report apparent fraud in campaign donations to Jocelyn Benson as analyzed in her 2025 gubernatorial campaign donations. The total donations for 2025 were downloaded from https://t.co/jfNYz614u0 and assembled in the following file:
(https://t.co/TjFj5vrZ43)
This file contains:
Total Donation Records Analyzed42,465
Total Funds Raised$5,686,697+
Date RangeJanuary 22 – December 31, 2025
This file was given to the AI tool known as Perplexity and asked to analyze for possible money laundering/smurfing/fraud.
7. Summary of Findings
Fraud IndicatorRecords AffectedSeverity
Exact duplicate donations (same donor/amount/date)1,989 recordsCRITICAL
March 3 duplication event (69.9% duplicates)1,573 recordsCRITICAL
January 22 burst (159× normal volume)7,964 recordsCRITICAL
Benford's Law violation (7 of 9 digits)All 42,465CRITICAL
22nd-of-month automated recurring pattern~4,900 recordsHIGH
Straw donor coordinated max-out pairs46+ donors, 23 addressesHIGH
'Not Employed' giving $1,000+481 records, $1.27MHIGH
Non-round recurring fractional amounts~700 recordsMODERATE
47.3% out-of-state donations20,082 recordsMODERATE
Same-address multiple-donor rings (3+)8 addressesMODERATE
The Perplexity Report can be found in entirety at:
(https://t.co/LaATtUGCjX)
Respectfully submitted,
Bob Cushman – Investigative Reporter
734-780-5662
[email protected]
Late and Lawless Lansing: 13 DAYS until Michigan's July 1 budget deadline, and as an attorney, let me explain why this one should make you angry.
Most people think July 1 is just a target. It is not. It is black-letter law. MCL 18.1365: the Legislature 'shall pass and present' the budget by July 1. The constitution sets a second hard line at October 1. Two separate legal duties, from a statute and from our constitution.
Last year Lansing violated both, then signed a budget at 3 in the morning on October 5.
And this year, instead of following the law, the plan on the table is to punt the whole thing past the November election with a stopgap, so the winners can cut a new deal later. That is not governing. That is treating a legal obligation as optional because there is no penalty attached to ignoring it.
Think about what that teaches. The deadline is fake. The constitution is a formality. And the next election always matters more than the duty in front of them. You cannot run a courtroom this way, a business this way, or a household this way. Lansing should not get to run a state this way.
13 days. The law is not ambiguous. We are watching.
Let's make Michigan safe, normal, and responsible again! 🇺🇸
@realDonaldTrump@JDVance@MIGOP@MI_Republicans@Th_Midwesterner@stevegrubershow@MrJustinBarclay@gatewaypundit@Rescue_Michigan@HarmeetKDhillon@elonmusk@timlovesann@mifairelections@TruckerRandy@DonnieDetroit19@downi75@MINewsSource
RUSSIA HOAX: Obama knew. Clinton knew. Biden knew. Comey knew. Brennan knew. McCabe knew. Strzok knew.Clapper knew.Schiff knew.FBI knew.DOJ knew. Mueller knew. They all knew Trump was innocent but they smeared and spied on him. Worse than Watergate. Trump is a crime victim!
81 House Republicans voted to keep the taxpayer spigot flowing to NED, NDI, IRI & Co.
There were 10 representatives from Florida and 5 from Ohio who voted No.
Our primaries are over in Ohio and we need to keep the Majority, but we should be planning for candidates to run against these people in 2028!
Screwing Michigan: Sell 13 Michigan dams to a Wall Street private equity firm for $1 each, then force 1.9 MILLION ratepayers to buy the power back at DOUBLE the market price for 30 years, and hand the utility a $270 million profit on top.
That is the deal Consumers Energy is fighting for right now.
The out-of-state buyer's plan? Split the dams into 13 separate LLCs so it can pocket the profits and dodge the liability when these century-old structures need repairs. And when a state judge called the deal 'highly problematic' and 'unreasonable,' Consumers' answer was a threat: approve it as-is, or we tear all 13 dams down.
Your rivers. Your money. Your safety. Sold to Maryland financiers and handed back to you with a bigger bill.
The Whitmer-appointed Public Service Commission decides by September. They work for you, not for Consumers. Make sure they hear it.
Let's make Michigan safe, normal, and responsible again! 🇺🇸
@realDonaldTrump@JDVance@MIGOP@MI_Republicans@Th_Midwesterner@stevegrubershow@MrJustinBarclay@gatewaypundit@Rescue_Michigan@HarmeetKDhillon@elonmusk@timlovesann@mifairelections@TruckerRandy@DonnieDetroit19@downi75