MONEY STILL TALKS

Haley Stevens got a minor amount of negative publicity but also considerable help from outside money sources after one of her primary opponents, state Senator Mallory McMorrow, unleashed criticism over the Congresswoman’s support for a 2025 resolution thanking law enforcement and ICE. The Center for Democratic Priorities, a mystery group of sorts that was just recently formed, immediately pledged and began spending $5.3 million in the Detroit and other markets across the state to promote on television Stevens proposed regulatory legislation to crack down on ICE. The pro-Stevens commercials even showed during the Pistons games. AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee that has become a center of controversy in the Senate race, also unleashed at the same time emails attacking Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed. Relative to AIPAC, a member of Congress has now called for the pro-Israel group to be labeled a foreign lobby group. Since 2022, it has been reported tht AIPAC has donated $1.2 million to the election efforts of Stevens, although as one Republican observer noted, it’s a race that will generate over $200 million when it is all said and done, so “if you want to stay in the game, you need to raise the funds to compete.”