Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) pledged to refuse donations from corporate PACs, which the Senate candidate running to fill Michigan’s open seat has sought to outlaw. Her donors rely on them.
In 2022, Slotkin co-sponsored a bill that would ban for-profit corporations from operating political funds she’s chided as being “corrupt” for exerting outsize influence on elections. But the House Democrat has accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars from corporate-funded leadership PACs since 2017, according to a Washington Examiner analysis of campaign finance disclosures.
Slotkin’s longtime willingness to take large checks from leadership PACs, which are maintained by federal officeholders and disburse cash to support others, will likely open her up to hypocrisy charges from Republicans on the campaign trail. Michigan’s Senate seat, which is being vacated due to the retirement of Sen.
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