A Metro Times review of records found multiple cases involving sexual offenses or allegations during Lloyd’s tenure that ended with reduced charges, probation, no jail time, or no prosecution

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Mike Rogers is calling for relief at the pump despite a record that includes raising Michigan’s gas tax, questioning tax suspensions and backing the Iran war that has driven fuel prices higher.

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Huizenga is being praised for backing a stock-trading ban, but records show years of individual stock ownership and congressional actions involving a company whose shares he held.

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A Metro Times review found that donors named in the Epstein files have given nearly $4.7 million to Mike Rogers’ campaigns and groups supporting him.

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Newly uncovered record shows Mike Rogers repeatedly opposed efforts to establish, advance, or fund medical care for people sickened after the Sept. 11 attacks.

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U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib says Michigan schools need major investments in cooling, clean energy, and infrastructure as extreme heat increasingly disrupts classrooms.

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As Mike Rogers praises a 9/11 responder with cancer, his congressional record shows he twice voted against health care for people sickened by the attacks.

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Michigan regulators are taking another look at permits for the Line 5 tunnel after a state Supreme Court ruling expanded how environmental harms must be considered.

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If Mike Rogers wanted to distance his Senate campaign from the racism and Islamophobia surrounding the race, holding a fundraiser at the home of a former state lawmaker who once said “we can’t make an African American white” was a strange way to go about it.

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Jay DeBoyer, the Republican nominee for Michigan lieutenant governor, said he would personally support cutting Medicaid and food assistance in a speech just five days after John James announced him as his running mate, according to audio obtained by Metro Times.

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Before Mike Rogers called for a one-year moratorium on new data centers in Michigan, he spent months arguing the state should compete for them.

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Republican gubernatorial nominee John James has weighed in on one of the more pressing issues facing Michigan voters: whether men should submit their penises to the Lord.

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U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga accepted campaign donations from a West Michigan gravel company and its executives after the company struck a potentially lucrative deal with businesses he co-owned, according to records reviewed by Metro Times.

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U.S. Rep. John James once attacked a political opponent for getting rich in Congress. Now, financial disclosure records show James’ own wealth has soared since he took office.

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Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers is pitching deregulation as a path to cheaper housing decades after pushing measures that weakened building safeguards and energy-efficiency standards while his family was in the construction business.

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An Instagram account that appears to belong to the wife of Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers recently reposted a video portraying Muslims as resistant to assimilation and suggesting many view terrorism as a legitimate form of resistance.

The post Mike Rogers’ wife appears to join the anti-Muslim fear campaign ahead of Dearborn hate rally appeared first on Detroit Metro Times.

A Highland Park activist with a track record of knocking candidates off the ballot is trying to do the same to Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, the Democratic nominee for governor.

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Republicans are using false claims, guilt by association, and anti-Muslim rhetoric to portray Abdul El-Sayed as a dangerous extremist in Michigan’s U.S. Senate race.

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U.S. Rep. Max Miller, a Republican from Ohio, is accused of holding a gun to his ex-wife’s head, burning her with hot water, and injuring their 2-year-old daughter, allegations that have prompted several fellow Republicans to call for his resignation.

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