Before Jim Pillen recommended lobbyist Julie Bushell for a $208,333-a-month no-bid contract, she was pushing lawmakers to fund her company's nitrate sensors. The state's top environmental official warned Pillen's chief of staff the technology was unproven. The lawmaker carrying the bill says he never saw the warning.
Records show Roger Marshall's ballot goes to a Kansas P.O. box, he held Florida fishing licenses from 2019 until May, his wife listed their Sarasota house as her main address, and the family pays roughly five times more in property taxes in Florida than in Kansas.
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After leaving Congress, Mike Rogers moved to a $1.7 million Cape Coral estate, registered to vote in Florida and claimed a tax break on it as his primary residence.
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A group called "Arkansans for Democracy and Justice" is flooding Arkansas with attack ads, but it is registered in Alabama, uses out-of-state vendors and hasn't received a single dime from actual Arkansans.
Eli Crane has built his campaigns on stopping drugs and blaming immigrants for smuggling them. FEC records show that between 2025 and 2026 alone he paid more than $55,000 to a fundraising consultant arrested in 2016 after police found meth, LSD, heroin and cocaine in her Phoenix home.
An outside group is spending nearly $1 million telling Michigan voters that Bill Huizenga took on congressional stock trading. His own disclosures show Johnson Controls stock through his first seven years on the Financial Services Committee, a purchase reported 57 days late in 2021, and a vote against making members sell what they already own.
Eight Republicans on the 2026 ballot want to represent places where the paper trail — mortgages, ballots, flight records, voter rolls — keeps pointing somewhere else: Virginia, Florida, Kansas, or the next district over.
Ramaswamy's own Ohio ethics filing lists stock in the companies that make the chips, run the servers and own the land behind the data center boom. As governor he'd appoint the boards that hand out their tax breaks and approve their power plants. Asked whether he'd sell, he didn't answer.
Governor Kelly Ayotte has built her reelection campaign around her opponent's old work for Purdue Pharma. In 2021 she personally urged the Executive Council to make Gordon MacDonald — who had fought New Hampshire's opioid investigation as Purdue's lawyer — chief justice, calling it 'about his character.' This week he resigned after admitting he broke the judicial ethics rules.
