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governor.swill@gmail.com wrote:

What a fucking whore.

Slotkin represents Michigan's 8th Congressional District, but
will now be running in a tight race in the 7th

Fox News Digital has learned that Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich.,
recently moved into a Lansing, Michigan, condo owned by a
lobbyist, who also happens to be one of her campaign donors, in
order to run for re-election in a new congressional district.

Slotkin, who currently represents Michigan's 8th Congressional
District, opted to move to Lansing from her family farm in
northern Oakland County, just outside of Detroit, in order to
run in the newly drawn 7th Congressional District in a year when
new congressional maps were drawn following the 2020 census.

"From my perspective, if the district moves and is a Lansing-
based district, and that is the district that’s most natural for
me to run in, then I will move and live in the Lansing area and
run in the Lansing district," Slotkin told Ingham County
Democrats in their party organization's monthly meeting in
September 2021.

According to Michigan voter registration data, Slotkin updated
her voting address in May of this year to reflect the address of
a home in Lansing currently owned by Jerry Hollister, an
executive at Niowave Inc., a Lansing-based pharmaceutical
manufacturing company that has received millions in federal
funding.

Slotkin's campaign denied that her congressional office
advocated for or was involved in any way with Niowave contracts,
and says she pays fair market rent for her Lansing home.

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Hollister, however, works as the chief operating officer and
director of government relations at the company, where his
responsibilities are "to continue developing Congres[s]ional
relationships, local community relationships, and media
relationships important to continued growth," according to his
LinkedIn profile.

He listed an additional role as a principal consultant at BBC
Entrepreneurial Training & Consulting LLC, another Michigan-
based technology consulting company that assists organizations
with grant proposals for government funding.

Voter registration data also shows that Hollister, his wife
Kathleen and son Jonathan have all been registered to vote at
Slotkin's new address since 2020, the same year the family
purchased the home.

According to Federal Election Commission data accessed on Sept.
9, Hollister has also been a frequent donor to Slotkin's
campaign since her first run for Congress in 2018.

Additionally, Niowave has been awarded nearly $30 million in
federal funding since January 2019, when Slotkin first took
office, receiving significantly more money in 2019 and 2022 than
in any other previous year, according to data from
USAspending.gov.

Slotkin's new home is also the business address of J. Hollister
LLC, a consulting firm run by Hollister which does work related
to government contracting and procurement, as well as operations
management.

Fox News Digital reached out to Slotkin's campaign for comment
and received a response from campaign spokesperson Lynsey
Mukomel, who blamed "attempts to twist the facts" on Slotkin's
Republican opponent, Michigan state Sen. Tom Barrett.

"Congresswoman Slotkin pays market rate rent for her home in
Lansing, just like millions of tenants in Michigan, and previous
attempts to twist the facts have failed with other outlets for
that reason," Mukomel said.

"This is nothing more than an attempt by Tom Barrett's weak
campaign to distract from his five votes to block thousands of
jobs at a new GM plant in his own backyard, his opposition to
the bipartisan CHIPS Act and his failed attempt to cover up his
dangerous position to ban all abortions in Michigan, even in
instances of rape or incest," she added.

A source close to Slotkin's campaign said that Niowave had been
receiving federal funds since 2007, more than a decade before
Slotkin took office, and that any funds they received after she
took office was not advocated for, worked on or related in any
way to her or her staff.

The source pointed to other individuals besides Hollister
employed by Niowave who had contributed to Republican Rep. John
Moolenaar's re-election campaign in 2020, highlighting that
contributions from employees of the company were bipartisan.

The source also provided a copy of the lease Slotkin signed to
rent Hollister's property, showing her paying monthly rent, and
expiring in November of this year. The source added that Slotkin
plans to purchase a home in the Lansing area once the lease
expires, and that the housing market had made buying a challenge
earlier in the year.

Fox News Digital also reached out to Hollister for comment but
did not receive a response.

Slotkin is facing a tough challenge from Barrett, a veteran who
served in the U.S. Army and completed deployments in both Iraq
and Afghanistan, in a race rated by Fox News' Power Rankings as
a "toss up."

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrat-elissa-slotkin-moves- home-lobbyist-campaign-donor-new-district

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