Lansing Capitol
Lansing Capitol
In what appears to be a violation of state policy, Michigan lawmakers have used political donations to rent housing near the Capitol and pay for electricity bills, car payments and repairs, Craig Mauger of The Detroit News reports.
The News analyzed the current 147 legislators' campaign spending from the last three years and found that, in one case, a representative used funds to pay for their Netflix and Peacock subscriptions.
Mauger writes:
State policies bar lawmakers' campaigns from using their funds for personal benefit. And multiple lawyers said some of the expenditures uncovered by The News might violate that standard. But, according to others, the transactions raised different concerns about whether state law does enough to prevent interest groups' money from flowing into the pockets of officials who are supposed to regulate them.
