| New reporting from Politico uncovered that Tom Barrett’s campaign funneled more than $50,000 in campaign cash to companies that his wife works for, after she was hired by the firms.
Barrett paid more than $30,000 to law firm Butzel Long in the months following his wife’s hiring – and “Barrett hadn’t paid the Butzel Long law firm before his wife…was hired in 2023.” The firm’s PAC gave him more than $13,000, their first contributions to Barrett ever, after his wife joined the firm.
And Barrett’s campaign “doubled its payments to top political software firm Aristotle International after his wife was hired in 2023.”
 DCCC Spokesperson Katie Smith:
“Tom Barrett got caught funneling money to companies his wife works for and owes Michiganders answers about whether he’s been personally profiting.”
Read more from Politico:
- FIRST IN SCORE — Rep. Tom Barrett’s (R-Mich.) campaign and affiliated committees have paid two firms his wife works for more than $50,000 for political work over the last two cycles, according to FEC reports reviewed by your host and our own Daniel Lippman.
- Barrett hadn’t paid the Butzel Long law firm before his wife Ashley Barrett, a campaign finance lawyer, was hired in May 2023. Butzel Long, which hadn’t donated to Barrett in an earlier cycle, also donated $13,300 to Barrett’s campaign and joint fundraising committee in 2024. In the other case, Barrett’s campaign doubled its payments to top political software firm Aristotle International after his wife was hired in 2023, according to a review of FEC records.
- Ashley Barrett and Butzel Long had no comment. A spokesperson for Aristotle referred a request for comment to the Barrett campaign.
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