John James Took Utility Cash While Your Electric Bill Kept Going Up
John James, running for Michigan governor, took nearly $50,000 from DTE and Consumers Energy while both companies asked regulators to jack up rates on Michigan families.
John James, running for Michigan governor, took nearly $50,000 from DTE and Consumers Energy while both companies asked regulators to jack up rates on Michigan families.
His top donors are Blackstone Group, Accenture, Walmart and Home Depot — and he put out a press release bragging about his vote to restore and expand ICE funding.
A watchdog group named him one of the most corrupt members of Congress, his LNG bills were tracked by the gas company his then-fiancée lobbied for, and the League of Conservation Voters scores him 10% for his entire career.
Sen. Dan Sullivan's single biggest asset is stock in RPM International — the company his brother runs and his grandfather founded. In 2013 it paid nearly $61 million to settle charges it cheated the federal government. Sullivan has profited the whole time.
Two more things: his top donors are Boeing, Koch, Lockheed Martin and Tyson, and he opposes a ban on military-style semi-automatic weapons.
The same bill traded $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts for $1 trillion in tax giveaways to the richest 1 percent. His top donors: General Dynamics, Blackstone Group, Ernst & Young and Holland & Knight.
Two more things: she tried to sell off more than 10,000 acres of Utah public land to help pay for tax cuts, and her donor list runs to AIPAC, Berkshire Hathaway and SpaceX.
He also spread the false smear that Democrats want to 'kill babies' after birth, and the health industry he helps write the rules for — McKesson, the American College of Radiology — funds his campaigns.
His top donors are Permian Resources, Valero and Exxon Mobil, his lifetime score from the League of Conservation Voters is 0%, and he cosponsored a bill that would grant personhood 'at the moment of fertilization.'