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Wayne County breaks campaign finance law – A complaint was filed Monday against Wayne County for violating Section 57 of the Michigan Campaign Finance Act. Put simply, the law prohibits the government from using tax dollars to ask for more tax dollars. Wayne County co-hosted an event with Transportation Riders United, giving them an opportunity to advocate for the $570,000,000 tax that will be on your ballot in August.
The seniors that attended the event in Romulus probably weren’t told that less than 1% of the tax revenue goes toward senior transit.
They probably weren’t told that the buses average 3.88 riders each, and that empty buses mean more traffic, more potholes and more pollution.
And they definitely weren’t told that SMART lied to Oakland County in 2022 about where their tax dollars would be spent, and the promised new routes never arrived.
Demand that Wayne County stop breaking the law! And VOTE NO so that this behavior isn’t rewarded. @NotSmartWayne
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! 🇺🇸
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113 active spies from foreign countries arrested.
Counter intelligence arrest have jumped 53%
4,800 cartel arrests, and 850 active plotters stopped.
77% surge in cyber indictments.
This @FBI is doing the work!
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Trump almost skipped the NATO summit. He only showed up because it was in Turkey.
Cannons saluted him. A finance minister met everyone else.
But the real story was Putin's 85-minute call two days earlier — and what Erdogan and Putin see that Europe can't.
@Kirstylgreen12@AmazonMGMStudio Right after Bezos bought MGM, Stargate would be available on Prime for a while then it wouldn't be. Then it would be, then it wouldn't be. I got tired of that and bought all three Stargate shows on blu-ray. Haven't been on Amazon Prime since.
ActBlue’s Attempt to Buy Michigan’s U.S. Senate Seat
The above data is what it looks like when ActBlue (with the nod of the FEC) attempts to “purchase” a US Senate seat in Michigan.
(https://t.co/68ZZ8mzO2k)
As of July 6, 2026 two Democrats, Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens, are running against each other in the Michigan Democratic Primary race in an attempt to win the Michigan US Senate seat being vacated by Gary peters at the end of 2026. It is believed that Mike Rogers will be the Republican contestant in the general election in November. This report reveals what is believed to be illegal campaign funding in this federal race.
Lets look at some of the evidence behind this assertion:
Michael Burke
It is believed that Michael Burke has had his identity stolen. When you see one individual that has “allegedly” made over 26,000 separate donations that total over one million dollars you can rationally assume that his identity has been stolen.
The A.I. known as perplexity was asked to analyze the donations of Michael Burke of Redondo Beach, CA. The results are as follows:
Campaign Finance Fraud Analysis
Smurf & Straw-Donor Pattern Review — FEC Schedule A Records
Subject donor set: "Michael Burke" (California) | Source file: Michael-Burke-CA-FEC-Donations.xlsx
Data source: https://t.co/vBWPopKtbs Schedule A itemized receipts | Prepared: July 06, 2026
Executive Summary
This report analyzes 26,144 federal campaign contributions totaling $2,107,665.03, attributed to donors named "Michael Burke" in California and drawn from FEC Schedule A itemized receipts covering 2010–2026. The dataset resolves to 114 distinct donor identities (by name + address) flowing to 342 recipient committees.
A single donor identity — Michael Burke at 2226 Ruhland Ave, Redondo Beach, CA 90278 (listed as RETIRED / NOT EMPLOYED) — accounts for 24,983 contributions worth $953,289.35, approximately 45% of all dollars and 95% of all transactions in the file. The concentration, velocity, fragmentation, and sub-threshold sizing of these contributions exhibit multiple hallmarks of smurfing (structured micro-contributions designed to evade itemization thresholds and scrutiny) and are consistent with a possible straw-donor arrangement in which a single identity is used to relay funds to 309 separate committees.
Overall risk rating: HIGH
File-Level Metrics
MetricValue
Total contribution records26,144
Total contributed$2,107,665.03
Date rangeFeb 2010 – Jun 2026
Distinct donor profiles (name + address)114
Distinct recipient committees342
Redondo Beach identity — share of $45.2% ($953,289)
Redondo Beach identity — share of records95.6% (24,983)
Methodology & Definitions
•Smurfing — a donor who makes a large number of small contributions (often just under the $200 itemization threshold) to one or many committees, either to evade scrutiny or to stay below per-election contribution limits while moving large aggregate sums.
•Straw donor — a person whose name and identity is used to make contributions with funds that are not genuinely their own, often reimbursed by a third party; the straw donor masks the true source of the money.
•Approach — records were deduplicated by donor profile (contributor name + street + city + ZIP), contribution frequency, amount distribution, round-number prevalence, same-day bursts, conduit routing, and year-to-date aggregate exceedances against federal contribution limits.
Primary Red Flag — Redondo Beach Donor Cluster
The identity "BURKE, MICHAEL" at 2226 Ruhland Ave, Redondo Beach, CA appears under at least eight address-format variants in the FEC data (e.g., "2226 RUHLAND AVE", "...AVE B", "...AVE #B", "...AVE UNIT B", "...AVE, #B"). Consolidated, this single physical residence produced the following activity:
IndicatorValueSmurfing relevance
Total contributions24,983Extreme transaction volume from one address
Total contributed$953,289.35~45% of all funds in the file
Distinct recipient committees309Massive fragmentation across recipients
Contributions ≤ $20097.2%Sub-itemization-threshold sizing
Mean / median contribution$38.16 / $15.00Micro-denomination pattern
Max contributions in a single day379 (Jan 31, 2026)Automated / scripted burst activity
Peak monthly volume908 (Sep 2025)Sustained high-velocity giving
Earmarked contributions8,693Routed via conduit (ActBlue)
Aggregate YTD to ActBlue$57,879Far exceeds individual limits
Stated employer / occupationRETIRED / NOT EMPLOYEDNo apparent income to support giving
Smurfing Indicators Identified
1. Sub-threshold micro-denominations
Of 24,983 Redondo Beach contributions, 97.2% are at or below the $200 FEC itemization threshold. The amount distribution is dominated by round, recurring values consistent with automated recurring-donation scheduling rather than spontaneous individual giving:
Amount# of contributions
$15.005,629
$3.003,421
$100.002,772
$25.001,782
$20.001,520
$50.001,463
$10.001,230
$5.001,218
2. Velocity and burst activity
Contributions are not evenly distributed; they cluster in bursts that are characteristic of batch-processed or scripted submission rather than organic donor behavior. The highest-velocity days and months:
PeriodContributions
Jan 31, 2026 (single day)379
Nov 30, 2025298
Sep 30, 2025156
December 2025 (cumulative burst)varies
September 2025 (month)908
November 2025 (month)903
January 2026 (month)887
3. Extreme fragmentation across committees
Funds are dispersed across 309 distinct recipient committees. Fragmenting a large aggregate sum across hundreds of recipients is a classic smurfing tactic: it keeps any single donor–committee pairing near or below contribution limits while moving a large total. Top recipient committees file-wide:
Recipient committeeRecordsTotal $
ACTBLUE18,586$458,159.67
EQUALITY PAC229$58,804.00
PAF173$35,558.00
NO VOTE LEFT BEHIND PAC254$33,020.00
HMP260$32,418.00
AECOM PAC63$25,514.40
DSCC428$15,482.50
4. Conduit routing and earmarking via ActBlue
At least 8,693 of the Redondo Beach contributions are coded as earmarked contributions, and 162 explicitly name ActBlue as the conduit committee. Earmarked contributions are legally attributed to the named individual but physically routed through the conduit. While lawful in principle, a high volume of earmarked micro-contributions flowing through a single conduit from one identity is a structure that can be — and has been — abused to launder reimbursed or third-party funds while preserving the appearance of organic grassroots giving.
5. Aggregate limit exceedances
Federal law caps an individual's contributions to any single candidate committee per election (approximately $2,900 in 2021–22, $3,300 in 2023–24, $3,500 in 2025–26). Several donor–committee pairs in the Redondo Beach cluster approach or exceed these limits, and the year-to-date aggregate to ActBlue alone reached $57,879 — an implausible figure for one individual in a single cycle:
Donor–committee pair (cycle)Max YTD aggregate
OJEDA FOR NC (2026)$5,100.00
Haley Stevens for Senate (2026)$4,800.00
Dr. Annie Andrews for Senate (2026)$4,425.00
Shawn Harris for Congress (2026)$4,375.00
Amy McGrath for Senate (2026)$3,825.00
ActBlue (aggregate, 2024)$57,879.00
Straw-Donor Indicators
The Redondo Beach profile raises straw-donor concerns in addition to smurfing:
•Income mismatch — The donor is consistently listed as "RETIRED" or "NOT EMPLOYED" with no employer, yet the identity has generated $953,289 in contributions over six years. The absence of any documented income source to support nearly $1 million in political giving is a primary straw-donor signal.
•One address, one identity — A single apartment unit (unit "B") producing ~25,000 federal contributions is implausible as genuine individual activity and is consistent with an identity being used as a pass-through for funds originating elsewhere.
•Automation signature — The uniform round-number, recurring-amount, and burst-timing patterns are consistent with programmatic submission (automated recurring charges or batch uploads), which is the operational signature of contribution-laundering schemes that use compromised donor identities.
•Legal framing — If the underlying funds are not the Redondo Beach individual's own, each contribution is an illegal contribution in the name of another — the core straw-donor offense under 52 U.S.C. § 30122.
The detailed contributions of Michael Burke may be viewed at:
(https://t.co/N03uCGhCuf)
Elizabeth Waffle of Milan, MI.
•It is believed that Elizabeth Waffle has had her identity stolen. When you see one individual that has “allegedly” made about 16,000 separate donations that total over $146,000 you can rationally assume that her identity has been stolen.
•The A.I. known as perplexity was asked to analyze the donations of Elizabeth Waffel of Milan, MI. The results are as follows:
Campaign Finance Fraud Analysis
Smurf & Straw-Donor Pattern Review — FEC Schedule A Records
Subject donor: "Elizabeth Waffle" (Milan, Michigan) | Source file: Elizabeth-Waffle.xlsx
Data source: https://t.co/vBWPopKtbs Schedule A itemized receipts | Prepared: July 06, 2026
Executive Summary
This report analyzes 15,980 federal campaign contributions totaling $146,763.51 attributed to donor "Elizabeth Waffle" of Milan, Michigan, drawn from FEC Schedule A itemized receipts covering September 2020 through May 2026. (The source spreadsheet also contained three trailing summary rows — including a $146,763.51 grand-total figure — which were excluded as non-transactional artifacts; the figures below reflect genuine contributions only.)
The contributions resolve to a single donor identity operating from two Milan, MI residences (13425 Hitchingham Rd and 119 Canfield St) under numerous address-format variants. The donor is uniformly listed as "NOT EMPLOYED" with no employer, yet has generated nearly $147,000 in political contributions over five and a half years — overwhelmingly in micro-denominations of $1–$10 routed through ActBlue. 100% of contributions fall at or below the $200 FEC itemization threshold.
The concentration, extreme micro-fragmentation, automated recurring-amount signature, ActBlue conduit routing, and absence of any documented income source exhibit multiple hallmarks of smurfing (structured micro-contributions designed to evade scrutiny) and are consistent with a possible straw-donor arrangement in which the donor identity is used to relay funds to 85 separate committees while keeping every donor–committee pairing safely below federal contribution limits.
Overall risk rating: HIGH
File-Level Metrics
MetricValue
Total contribution records (genuine)15,980
Total contributed$146,763.51
Date rangeSep 2020 – May 2026
Distinct donor residences2 (Hitchingham Rd; Canfield St)
Address-format variants23+ across both residences
Distinct recipient committees85
Contributions ≤ $200 (itemization threshold)100.0%
Contributions ≤ $550.2%
Median / mean contribution$5.00 / $9.18
Largest single contribution$1,000.00
Stated employer / occupationNOT EMPLOYED (no income source)
Methodology & Definitions
•Smurfing — a donor who makes a large number of small contributions — often just under the $200 itemization threshold — to one or many committees, to evade scrutiny or stay below per-election contribution limits while moving a large aggregate sum.
•Straw donor — a person whose name and identity is used to make contributions with funds that are not genuinely their own, often reimbursed by a third party; the straw donor masks the true source of the money.
•Approach — records were deduplicated by donor profile (contributor name + address + city + ZIP), contribution frequency, amount distribution, round-number prevalence, same-day bursts, conduit routing, and year-to-date aggregate exceedances against federal contribution limits. Three trailing summary rows in the source file were excluded as non-transactional.
Primary Red Flag — Single Milan, MI Donor Cluster
The identity "WAFFLE, ELIZABETH" (also appearing as "WAFFLE, ELIZABETH L" and "WAFFLE, PHD, ELIZABETH") appears at two Milan, MI residences — 13425/13525 Hitchingham Rd and 119 Canfield St — under 23+ address-format variants (e.g., "13425 HITCHINGHAM", "...HITCHINGHAM RD", "119 CANFIELD APT 1", "119 CANFIELD #1", "119CANFIELD 1"). Consolidated, this single donor produced:
IndicatorValueSmurfing relevance
Total contributions15,980Extreme transaction volume from one individual
Total contributed$146,763.51Large aggregate from a "not employed" donor
Distinct recipient committees85Fragmentation across many recipients
Contributions ≤ $200100.0%Universal sub-threshold sizing
Contributions ≤ $550.2% (8,026)Micro-denomination dominance
Contributions ≤ $119.9% (3,175)Sub-dollar recurring-charge signature
Median / mean contribution$5.00 / $9.18Micro-denomination pattern
Max contributions in a single day124 (Sep 30, 2023)Automated / batch burst activity
Active donation days1,350 (avg 11.8/day)Sustained high-velocity giving
ActBlue as conduit/recipient12,943 (81%)Overwhelming conduit routing
Largest donor–committee YTD aggregate$2,301.50 (Warnock, 2022)Deliberately kept under limits
Stated employer / occupationNOT EMPLOYEDNo apparent income to support giving
Smurfing Indicators Identified
1. Universal sub-threshold micro-denominations
Every single one of the 15,980 contributions — 100.0% — falls at or below the $200 FEC itemization threshold. The distribution is dominated by $1, $5, and $10 recurring amounts, the hallmark of automated recurring-donation scheduling rather than spontaneous individual giving. Sub-$1 amounts ($0.50, $1.50) appear 621 times, consistent with platform fees or fractional recurring charges:
Amount# of contributions
$10.003,999
$1.002,787
$5.002,600
$25.001,177
$15.001,004
$2.00950
$20.00877
$3.00559
$1.50311
$0.50310
2. Deliberate avoidance of contribution limits
Federal law caps an individual's contributions to any single candidate committee per election (approximately $2,900 in 2021–22, $3,300 in 2023–24, $3,500 in 2025–26). Not a single donor–committee pairing in this dataset exceeds $3,500 — and none even reach the limit. The largest year-to-date aggregate to any one candidate is $2,301.50 (Warnock for Georgia, 2022). This is the defining signature of smurfing: keeping every pairing safely under the legal ceiling while the aggregate total ($146,764) is large.
Donor–committee pair (cycle)Max YTD aggregateContributions
Warnock for Georgia (2022)$2,301.50185
Mark Kelly for Senate (2022)$1,980.83129
Elissa Slotkin for Michigan (2024)$1,462.5062
Friends of Sherrod Brown (2024)$1,430.00111
Jeffries for Congress (2024)$1,216.5076
Catherine Cortez Masto for Senate (2022)$1,058.0056
3. Velocity and burst activity
Contributions are not evenly distributed; they cluster in bursts characteristic of batch-processed or scripted recurring-charge submission. The donor was active on 1,350 distinct dates (averaging 11.8 contributions per active day), with 111 days reaching 30+ contributions and 29 days reaching 50+:
PeriodContributions
Sep 30, 2023 (single day)124
Dec 31, 2023 (single day)107
Nov 1, 2024 (single day)100
Nov 4, 2024 (single day)98
Oct 2024 (month)691
Dec 2023 (month)561
Jul 2025 (month)443
4. Overwhelming ActBlue conduit routing
ActBlue serves as the recipient committee for 12,943 of 15,980 contributions (81%), and 5,100 contribution memos explicitly reference ActBlue routing. At least 4,685 contributions are coded as earmarked — legally attributed to the named individual but physically routed through the conduit. While lawful in principle, a high volume of earmarked micro-contributions flowing through a single conduit from one identity is a structure that has been abused to launder reimbursed or third-party funds while preserving the appearance of organic grassroots giving. Top recipient committees:
Recipient committeeRecordsTotal $
ACTBLUE12,943$102,877.51
314 Action Fund339$5,890.85
Warnock for Georgia214$2,780.84
Mark Kelly for Senate184$2,773.33
DSCC196$2,719.00
Elissa Slotkin for Michigan100$2,132.50
Jeffries for Congress104$1,410.50
5. Geographic disconnect and out-of-state focus
Despite residing in Milan, Michigan, only 134 of 15,980 contributions (0.8%) went to Michigan-related recipients (notably Elissa Slotkin for Michigan). The overwhelming majority of funds flowed to out-of-state federal candidates in Georgia, Arizona, Ohio, Nevada, California, and elsewhere. A pattern of small out-of-state donations to swing-state Senate and House candidates is a known signature of coordinated national smurfing operations, where donor identities are applied across a pre-built target list.
6. Address fragmentation
The donor's two residences appear under 23+ address-format variants in FEC filings — 14 variants on Hitchingham Rd alone (including obvious transcription errors like "134225 HITCHINGHAM", "113425 HITCHINGHAM", "-3425 HITCHINGHAM", "134 5 HITCHINGHAM") and 9 on Canfield St. While some variation reflects data-entry differences across committees and cycles, the proliferation of variants can also serve to complicate aggregation-based detection by dispersing the identity across records.
Straw-Donor Indicators
The Waffle profile raises straw-donor concerns in addition to smurfing:
•Income mismatch — The donor is consistently listed as "NOT EMPLOYED" (with employer "NOT EMPLOYED" or "NONE") across all 15,980 records, yet the identity has generated $146,764 in contributions over five and a half years. The complete absence of any documented income source to support even modest aggregate political giving is a primary straw-donor signal.
•Sustained identity use — Two residential addresses in a small Michigan town producing ~16,000 federal contributions — averaging 11.8 per active day — is implausible as genuine individual activity and is consistent with an identity being used as a pass-through for funds originating elsewhere.
•Automation signature — The uniform $1/$5/$10 recurring amounts, sub-dollar fractional charges, and burst-timing patterns are consistent with programmatic submission (automated recurring charges or batch uploads), the operational signature of contribution-laundering schemes that use compromised or unwitting donor identities.
•Legal framing — If the underlying funds are not the Waffle individual's own, each contribution is an illegal contribution in the name of another — the core straw-donor offense under 52 U.S.C. § 30122.
Name Variants & Secondary Considerations
The contributor name appears in three forms in the data, likely reflecting filing inconsistencies rather than distinct individuals (same Milan addresses):
Name formRecordsTotal $
WAFFLE, ELIZABETH15,790$145,074.51
WAFFLE, ELIZABETH L175$1,244.00
WAFFLE, PHD, ELIZABETH15$445.00
The "L" middle-initial and "PhD" prefix variants share the same Hitchingham Rd address and may represent the same individual or a related household member. Four records list the city as "MY" rather than "MILAN" — a clear data-entry error. None of these variants materially changes the risk profile; all consolidate to the same Milan identity.
Comparative Context
Relative to a typical high-volume ActBlue donor, the Waffle profile is extreme on three axes simultaneously: (1) 100% sub-threshold sizing, (2) median gift of just $5, and (3) 81% direct ActBlue routing. A genuine small-dollar grassroots donor typically shows a mix of small and occasional larger gifts, a higher median, and a broader committee mix. The complete absence of any contribution above $1,000 — combined with 3,175 contributions of $1 or less — is the profile most associated with platform-level recurring-charge automation rather than human donor behavior.
Limitations & Recommended Next Steps
•Confirmation gap — This file is a single-donor FEC export; it cannot by itself prove that funds were reimbursed by a third party. FEC records alone cannot confirm reimbursement; this requires bank records, ActBlue internal data, or donor interviews.
•ActBlue cross-reference — The $1 recurring-charge pattern is the specific signature associated with the ActBlue smurfing investigations. Cross-reference this donor identity against any ActBlue conduit enforcement matters and FEC Office of Compliance databases.
•Source verification — Pull the underlying FEC filing images (pdf_url links in the source file) to confirm contribution dates, amounts, and earmark text for the highest-velocity days before any referral.
•Identity verification — Verify whether Elizabeth Waffle is a real, consenting donor aware of the contributions attributed to her identity, or an unwitting victim of identity-based contribution laundering. Bank-of-record deposits and charge authorization records are the decisive evidence.
Disclaimer: This analysis identifies statistical patterns consistent with smurfing and straw-donor activity based on FEC Schedule A public records. Statistical indicators are not proof of unlawful conduct. Findings should be corroborated with primary-source financial records before any enforcement referral or public accusation.
(https://t.co/6vv44vjaAi)
Respectfully submitted,
Bob Cushman – Investigative Reporter
The Freedom Press (https://t.co/X28MYpbAJb)
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