Ex-Michigan Gov. Jim Blanchard (D) — a longtime friend of Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) — revealed that her stunning endorsement of U.S. Senate nominee Mike Rogers ® occurred less than 48 hours after she told him over dinner that she planned to reiterate her support for Rogers’ opponent, Democrat Abdul El-Sayed.
In the lead-up to Sunday, the congresswoman — who is backed by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee — and her fiancé, Jason Turkish, ramped up their criticisms toward El-Sayed’s views on Israel, pressuring the progressive to denounce ads backing his bid that they called “hateful” and antisemitic.
Turkish — who is Jewish and has donated to AIPAC — had endorsed Rogers days before attending the dinner with Stevens on Friday.
Blanchard, speaking on Turkish’s behavior at the dinner, told Gongwer, “He was working her over.”
“The way he was saying it was, ‘Everyone is disappointed in you, they did everything they could to help you and then immediately after you lose the primary, you endorsed him,’” Blanchard said.
AIPAC and its donors have no place in American politics.
Why stop there? No donors. Zero. It’s all the same problem.
You can’t (logically) reject AIPAC money while accepting luxury jets from Qatar.
Honestly if you want fair elections then you would need to set up an election fund and use it to give everyone the same sum of money for their campaign. Any other external contributions would be illegal. That way everyone, no matter who they are would be on equal footing.
There are countries that do exactly this. It’s insane how much money is allowed to influence the US politicians.
This would be fine and could be done for a fraction of the current election spending. It’s absurd how much money is wasted on these dumbass campaign ads.
A side benefit of this change would be that corpo media loses one of their primary revenue streams. They might have to start doing actual journalism again…!
This is unironically what needs to happen.
I dunno, sounds like socialism to me.
Politicians vote to send money to isreal, then isreal uses it to elect politicians that will send money to isreal. Its the circle of life.
IF china dropped a hundred million dollars in US races there would be riots.
Only if they were dropped as cheap TVs at Walmart.
Difficult to say really. We would have to hear what the propaganda machine says on the matter.
If they supported Republicans? Probably not
Gee, $$$$$ I wonder $$$$$$ what could $$$$$$$$$$ have $$$$$$$$ happened $$$$$$$ to make her $$$$$$ change her $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ mind
That’$ $ome kinda li$p you got going.
We may never know
$$$$ is the root of all that kills, right Israel?
It’s a mystery
We may never know. /s What’s amazing to me, at this time, is not the fact that politicians can be bought, or that Israel is throwing some $$ around, but rather how cheaply politicians are being bought by Israel / AIPAC. And I’m happy to see, on the link below, that MI-12 Representative Rashida Tlaib is the only one from MI that took ZERO $ from AIPAC.
And no harsh reaction to that foreign interference yet? Because it feels like for Canadians, yawning at the wrong time would definitely be a major interference.
Maybe something snapped, it’s possible, but that only ever works in one direction. “Snapping” suggests a period of pressure that the “snap” – or reversion to natural state – then resolves.
If she genuinely snapped and in that “snap” she changed in character, that only means that this is who she was all along.
For myself, I don’t believe even that much. This whole thing sounds like the beginnings of a plan to blame it all on the fiancé whenever she wants to reenter politics.
Turkish donated $15,000 toward a political action committee supporting Slotkin’s 2024 campaign, per federal election data.
What kind of “normal” person can fucking donate $15k to a PAC?
The same sort of person who can donate $24k to a Susan Collins PAC.
Turkish has described himself as a Democrat, although his political donations have also included contributions to Republican candidates.
According to The Detroit News, federal campaign finance records show that he donated more than $24,000 to committees allied with Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine in 2025.
His photo looks insane. This isn’t a 2000s-era video game NPC?
It’s like someone drew a picture of Stephen Miller with their foot
That’s it, that’s exactly it… Stephen Miller, ordered on Wish that’s what he looks like. It was driving me crazy!
You win.
I can’t believe you are shaming this guy because of his beady eyes and his little face and chubby cheeks and stringy hair. That’s not right
Well, the eyes specifically may be because he’s been blind since birth.
Looksism is harsh, and sometimes it applies.
Ozempic did this to him.
Same logic as people who buy ba water of a celebrity
Can it just really be money? Any chance she’s being blackmailed?
Emotionally, yes. Read the article. Her partner is Jewish and was basically telling her that she was being anti-Semitic for backing Sayed. You throw that kind of borderline abusive emotional manipulation on top of half her campaign funding coming from AIPAC and it’s not hard to see how this happened. No conspiracy required.
This makes a lot of sense. Especially given her bizarre interview with Anderson Cooper. He kept asking her the same question: what changed on the night before you endorsed the Republican? And she kept (ineptly) tap-dancing around the issue and fluctuating wildly between thanking Cooper for giving her air time and getting hostile about his question.
Her behavior and that interview shows all the hallmarks of someone who has jumped into or been pushed into a corner and doesn’t know how to get out.
Not that I pity her as it stands. This whole fiasco shows a remarkable lack of character and spine from her.
Jesus.
Can you imagine what she would’ve been like as a senator? The woman appears to have no foundation.
And her fiancé… this relationship sounds toxic. In all directions. His behavior and hers sound awful.
The woman appears to have no foundation
She’d fit right in unfortunately.
Partner or handler?
Yes.
Israel came to her dream again
I$RAEL COME$ TO ME IN MY DREAM$!!!
-Haley $teven$
She looks like a spooky Halloween decoration. Also, she sucks
Israel left a note in her home saying they can get to her.
Wednesday’s let herself go.
