Subject: Re: No Big Gretch in 2028

I started to smell a rat.

Interesting tidbits hitting the "news" today. This is about the Michigan Dem primary for the open US Senate seat, caused by Dem Gary Peters' retiring from the Senate. The Detroit News piece is paywalled.

Pro-Israel PAC uses 'loophole' to quietly fund Stevens in Dem primary

Washington — A prominent pro-Israel political group is responsible for a significant share of the donor base for Haley Stevens’ Democratic U.S. Senate bid, despite not showing up by name in public disclosures, a Detroit News analysis of campaign finance records shows.

https://www.detroitnews.com/st...

A Democrat’s Dodge on AIPAC Points to the Party’s Tensions Over Israel

When Representative Haley Stevens of Michigan was asked on Thursday during a Democratic primary debate for Senate what it meant that she had accepted campaign contributions from donors to AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobbying group, she spoke 160 words without coming remotely close to answering the question.

Instead, Ms. Stevens said her campaign was “a love letter to our state,” called for campaign finance reform and highlighted her endorsements from several high-profile former Democratic politicians from the state. She did not mention Israel or her support from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

AIPAC, which has become toxic in Democratic primary politics, has not sent campaign money directly to Ms. Stevens or to other Democratic primary candidates this year. Instead, its donors have funneled money to preferred candidates and funded shadowy super PACs that have spent millions on Democratic primary contests in other states.

The question to Ms. Stevens followed a report on Thursday by The Detroit News that found that 31 percent of donors to Ms. Stevens’s Senate campaign had also given to AIPAC, a percentage far higher than during her previous two House bids. AIPAC’s fund-raising website has a page through which donors can give directly to Ms. Stevens.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/0...

TYT covered the content of the Detroit News article tonight, along with some other bits. One of the other bits was video of Stevens saying "Israel comes to me in my dreams".

Now all this, the Detroit News article, the video of Stevens saying she has visitations from Israel in her sleep, could all be fake, to sabotage her campaign, to plant that thought that, as a Senator, she will be more interested in working for Israel, like Ted Cruz says he does, out loud, rather than serving the taxpayers of Michigan. But my suspicion of excessive Israeli influence in US government deliberations, started with Hillary, either when she was campaigning against Trump, 10 years ago, or campaigning against Obama, 18 years ago, long before Israel became so toxic to most USian voters.

If I think of it, I'll post a link to the TYT piece, when it goes up on YT.

Steve