Michigan Democratic Party chair Curtis Hertel made it crystal clear on Sunday that Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) was no longer welcome in the state’s Democratic party.

Hertel posted to X after Stevens yanked her support from Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D) and gave it to his Republican challenger, “Congresswoman Stevens is not a current member of the Michigan Democratic Party, nor will she be in the future.”

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    Wasn’t this the same woman who was called out for concern trolling the other day on Some More News Podcast?

    Yeah, she seemed slippery as fuck. This behavior isn’t surprising.

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    What makes this all especially delicious is that there was SUPPOSED to be an event today for “Party Unity” with Representative Jim Clyburn (D-SC).

    El-Sayed said Stevens shouldn’t be there because she would be “a distraction.”

    One of Clyburn’s people issued a statement saying: “Abdul can’t uninvite her because it’s not his event”.

    Then she went full on nuts, getting kicked out of the party. She uninvited herself. LOL.

    https://mynorthwest.com/national/michigan-democrats-unity-push-falters-as-stevens-is-asked-to-skip-event-with-el-sayed/4293027

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    Mike Rodgers has made it clear he’s against Trans rights, he’s against equal pay for women, he’s against minimum wage increases, and he’s very proud of his ‘‘100% anti abortion voting record’’ in the past he’s said he would respect Michigan’s right to abortion laws, but shifted further right this cycle saying he’ll support federal bans on abortion. So in a fight between “won’t disavow a commercial that says the US funding Isreal and joining Israel in attacking Iran has led to high gas prices” or “will do everything in his power to harm women’s equality and human rights” she prefers harming women.

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    Honestly, I’m not sure if she’s trying to grift to the right (and is really bad at it) or is having an honest mental breakdown. Maybe the mental breakdown is the reason for the sloppy grift.

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      her career has been heavily funded by the pro Israel lobby for a long time, her husband endorsed the republican way earlier than the commercial controversy, she’s not that old and likely wants to cash in on her political career, and the most likely job after legislature is a lobbyist, and she’s mostly interacted with pro Isreal lobbyist, so… that’s probably where she’d like to work. This is a grand romantic gesture.

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        The thing is, that’s not her husband, it’s her fiancé, and they only started dating back in spring of this year. She might actually be a honeypot victim.