My democratic opponents refused to participate in the only televised debate scheduled for #MI07.
In response, I held a Town Hall and invited Brink and Maasdam.
Over 130 voters showed up to have their questions answered.
As your Congressman, I will hold quarterly town halls open to all.
While our opponents were running attack ads and arguing online — we ran a food drive.
This week, the We Will team delivered hundreds of dollars and food items to the Mulliken Area Food Pantry.
Mid-Michigan deserves better than mudslinging. We're focused on the real work.
Too often, corporations and outside interests meddle in politics.
They stop policy from benefiting people over profits. Michiganders are sick of it and ready to kick corporate money out of politics.
I'll work to do the same in Congress on the federal level.
The UAW is proud to endorse @AbdulElSayed for U.S. Senate.
UAW members in Michigan want a fighter in Washington, D.C. who isn’t afraid to push forward a strong working-class agenda with moral clarity. Having never taken a dime from corporate PACs, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed is someone we can trust to have our backs, including when we need it most – like come May Day 2028. From Medicare for All to banning stock buybacks, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed is ready, eager, and well-equipped to move our core issues in the U.S. Senate.
Today, the @UAW announced their endorsement of our campaign for US Senate. I am so honored and humbled.
Michigan union autoworkers built the American middle class and proved that when people stand together, there’s nothing we can’t accomplish.
Solidarity forever.
WE WILL GET BIG MONEY OUT OF POLITICS!
I joined MMOP today as they turned in over half a million signatures to get their referendum on the ballot.
It's a big deal. It would close the pipeline of political money from corporations in Mighigan.
#moneyoutofpolitics
On a recorded phone call in 2021, UnitedHealthcare employee Dave Opperman and nurse Victoria Kavanaugh discussed the decision to deny coverage for Christopher McNaughton's ulcerative colitis treatment. Kavanaugh shared the news that a contracted doctor had concluded the treatment was "not medically necessary." Opperman laughed.
"I knew that was coming," he said.
When Kavanaugh mentioned that McNaughton's family might appeal, Opperman was direct: "We're still gonna say no."
McNaughton had spent years finding a treatment that worked. A Mayo Clinic specialist - one of the top gastroenterologists in the country - had crafted a specific high-dose combination of two biologic drugs that brought his severe, crippling disease into remission after he had failed every other treatment available. His bills were running nearly $2 million a year. United had flagged him as a "high dollar account."
When an outside doctor named Nitin Kumar reviewed the case and concluded that McNaughton's treatment was not only necessary but that reducing his doses risked cancer, hospitalization, and toxic megacolon, Kavanaugh moved to suppress the report and send the case back to the doctor who had already denied it. "I didn't because it shouldn't have existed," she said in deposition.
The United medical director who reviewed the case had not practiced medicine since the early 1990s. He did approximately a hundred reviews a week. He said he copied and pasted the nurse's recommendation and typed "agree." Asked whether he gave any weight to the treating doctor's opinion, he replied: "Yeah" - meaning no.
United reported $20.1 billion in profit that year.
@CalldeighCat14@CraigDMauger Duggan put DTE's 30 year CEO in charge of his policy committee. He calls himself independent, then literally puts the fox in charge of the henhouse.
@CraigDMauger The story everyone is waiting for is whether or not Perry will wear the baby blue leisure suit that he wore for the '22 debates while he stands in exactly the same position for winning in '26.
DTE found its way to a loophole in the 2023 Clean Energy law that requires them to get to 100% renewable energy by 2040. Now they want to green light the project that would allow them to bypass that law WITHOUT PUBLIC HEARINGS.
Nope. DTE, show your work.
Detroit public schools just unanimously passed a resolution endorsing the Invest In MI Kids ballot initiative. This initiative seeks to tax Michigan’s
1% and direct those funds towards our public schools. This would create an additional $1B in funding per year that would have to be spent on public education.
The country’s highest profile Democratic politicians spent the day valorizing Dick Cheney while Democratic voters were busy electing Zohran Mamdani.
Let that sink in.
I'm humbled by the outpouring of support at our kickoff rally. Your friendship will keep me anchored through this tough campaign.
When we build community, we cannot lose, because community is what makes life worth living! Mid-Michigan is worth living and fighting for.
I'm humbled by the outpouring of support at our kickoff rally. Your friendship will keep me anchored through this tough campaign.
When we build community, we cannot lose, because community is what makes life worth living! Mid-Michigan is worth living and fighting for.
Will Lawrence is the real deal — a true populist in the best sense of the word, and a deeply committed fighter for working people. I'm excited that he's running and that he's in it to win it.
NYers knew Andrew Cuomo was backed by Trump’s orbit. That’s why he lost the primary.
Now we have confirmation.
It’s time for Dem leaders to unite behind @ZohranKMamdani. If they don’t now, how can they call for party unity later?
We must lead by example.
Let’s win together.