Michigan’s longtime Senator Debbie Stabenow is retiring this year, meaning an open U.S. Senate seat is up for grabs. There is a multitude of candidates running, both Democrats and Republicans, but the odds-on favorite looks like Democrat Elissa Slotkin, who raised $1.2 million within the first day of her candidacy. Slotkin currently serves in the House of Representatives for Michigan’s 7th district, which includes both the state capital, Lansing, and arch-conservative Livingston County.
Support for LGBTQ rights? It can’t be that either. Slotkin was one of only two Democrats to join Republicans in Congress in voting to ban the Pride flag from military bases. Slotkin claimed that the ban also banned the Confederate flag and that’s why she voted the way she did. But, you can read Sen. Roger Marshall’s press release introducing the ban where he says, “It’s a sad state of affairs when the White House prioritizes their radical social agenda over patriotism...
Whether the eventual winner is Slotkin, Rogers, or Meijer, it’s clear who the real losers will be: peace activists, civil libertarians, fighters for single-payer healthcare, and anti-death penalty activists. Another loser is our democratic process which puts up such awful choices in the first place.
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