CATCH UP QUICK: What to Know About the MI-04 Race Between Sean McCann and Bill Huizenga

Refresh your memory on what Michiganders have learned about Huizenga’s toxic record:

• Bill Huizenga increased his net worth by as much as five times during the years he’s been in Congress. Huizenga voted to give himself as much as a $50,000 tax cut and his business is “receiving some of the largest corporate tax reductions in the bill.”
• Huizenga spent 15 years in Washington holding and trading individual stocks while saying he had “mixed feelings” about a stock trading ban and feared it was “an overreaction.” He was also one of just a dozen members of Congress who voted against banning insider trading.
• Huizenga rubberstamped every policy raising prices on Michiganders. He voted to rip away health care from hardworking people and raise health care costs – voting to gut Medicaid, repeal the ACA, privatize Medicare, and raise the Social Security retirement age.
• Huizenga voted for Trump’s tariffs eight times, saying they are “for the positive” even as Michigan families are paying $5,600 more per year. And he backs Trump’s war of choice in Iran that is raising prices for Michiganders at the pump, raising diesel and fertilizer prices, and putting service members’ lives in danger.
• Huizenga voted to give data center developers $83 billion in tax breaks. He called data centers our nation’s “crown jewels” – it’s no wonder he’s raked in nearly $10 million from corporate special interests, including utilities and companies trying to build data centers.
• Huizenga got caught paying more than $400,000 in campaign cash to his brother – who also worked as a full time real estate agent, selling condos for Huizenga’s luxury condo company.

Key reads about the MI-04 race: 

• Detroit News: Huizenga trying to stay afloat amid rising gas and diesel prices
• Detroit Metro Times: Ads praise Huizenga for stock-trading ban. His disclosures show years of stock ownership
• Michigan Advance: Huizenga’s office confirms Scotland delegation visit during partial shutdown
• Semafor: Exclusive / Battleground Democrats try to stay above their party’s fray
• Detroit Metro Times: Huizenga’s campaign paid his brother’s business $400,000 as he sold the congressman’s condos 
• Gongwer: Dems like their chances in a once-unflippable MI-04. Can Bill Huizenga hang onto his seat?
• Washington Examiner: House Democrats make push for western Michigan seat that’s long been a GOP stronghold
• Detroit Metro Times: Bill Huizenga took campaign donations after a company struck a deal with his businesses
• American Journal: Huizenga’s revolving door: at least a dozen staffers became lobbyists
• Heartland Signal: Rep. Bill Huizenga has a 15-year record of voting to cut Social Security and Medicare

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