A Democrat running for the U.S. Senate in Michigan is accused of starting a small business to gain support from voters before running for Congress in 2017.
Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) launched a business called Pinpoint Consulting in June 2017, and a month later used a message describing herself as a small business owner. announced his candidacy for the House of Representatives election. However, her campaign does not confirm whether her consulting business has ever generated any revenue or had any clients. The company has been inactive since she ran for Congress in 2017, and has not filed her annual report since 2019. In 2020, the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulation deemed the company in “not in good standing.”
“Elissa Slotkin set up a paper consulting business so she could call herself a small business owner when running for Congress,” said Maggie Abboud, a spokeswoman for the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Ta. washington examiner. “But it seems like she didn't really have any customers.”
Mr. Slotkin's campaign has sought to portray the company's existence as an interim job since his term as acting assistant secretary of defense ended in 2017.
“Congressman. Ms. Slotkin founded a consulting firm after leaving the Department of Defense and while considering various job opportunities. She ultimately decided to run for Congress,” the campaign statement reads. is written.
The Michigan Democrat won the House election in 2018 by a 2 percentage point margin over incumbent Republican Mike Bishop.
Jason Cabell Roe, who led the Congressional Leadership Fund's efforts to support Mr. Bishop in the campaign, denounced the alleged political framing of Mr. Slotkin's business.
“What she was trying to do in 2018 was try to present herself as a moderate Republican to Republican voters who didn't like Donald Trump,” he said.
Law explained that the business was “her go-to talking point in 2018. But once she got elected, I'm sure she never talked about it again after 2019.”
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The allegations are all the more striking given that Mr. Slotkin's U.S. Senate race was against a group of Republicans, including former U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, in the battleground state of Michigan.of cook political report This race is currently classified as Democratic-leaning.