House Democrats raised the most among the Legislature's four caucus committees for the April campaign finance period, collecting more than $2.2 million from Jan. 1 to April 20. On the other hand, House Republicans had the most money left over, with more than $5.38 million on the balance sheet.

He hasn't looked at the evidence and isn't commenting on the strength or weaknesses of anybody's case, but former House Speaker and attorney Tom Leonard knows one thing about this week's criminal charges against Lee and Stephanie Chatfield: defending against the charges is going to be expensive.

The two political action committees attached to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer raised more than $3 million to dump into different Democratic races during the 2024 presidential election, and one was giving to the special election held Tuesday.

U.S. Senate candidate and former Detroit Police Chief James Craig raised $60,546 in donations since announcing his campaign compared to his Republican counterparts former U.S. Reps. Mike Rogers and Peter Meijer who raised $1M and $415,362 this period, respectively

A financial disclosure package didn’t appear on the House calendar Thursday despite being on it Wednesday due to internal disagreements within the House Democratic caucus about how far to go in demanding state public officials and candidates for those offices disclose their personal finances.