Blog tagged as Campaign Finance

Sixteen state House candidates have been referred to the Attorney General’s Office for not turning in their pre-primary campaign finance reports on time or not at all.

Citizens For Energizing Michigan’s Economy (CEME), a 504(c)4 that’s traditionally been run by two Consumers Energy executives on a three-person board, is spending more than $200,000 in video ads to help two Republican candidates win their respective primaries.

The fundraising prowess of U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Holly) has struck again.

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.