How Tom Barrett’s Challengers Sucked Up to Soros-Funded Activists

Two Democrats hoping to win Michigan’s 7th Congressional District recently revealed to an activist group how out of touch their positions are from the majority of voters in the state, especially regarding immigration enforcement and climate policy.

Bridget Brink and Matt Maasdam recently submitted a questionnaire to Indivisible Michigan District 7 as part of the endorsement process. The George Soros-backed organization ultimately chose the farthest Left candidate, William Lawrence.

Lawrence parrots most of the progressive cures, including Medicare for All, more labor unions, bigger handouts, interfering in the housing market, surefire climate change fixes, and taxing billionaires more.

Lawrence accuses Immigration and Customs Enforcement of being an army that “occupies” cities and targets “innocent people.”

“ICE was created in March 2003, as part of the War On Terror. It is now equivalent, all by itself, to the 15th largest military in the world,” Lawrence said. “ICE is occupying American cities and raiding neighborhoods in the 7th District, sweeping up innocent people whose only crime is trying to build a better life.”

In reality, the federal law enforcement agency works with other agencies to pick up criminals running from justice in their home countries who made it across President Biden’s open borders.

It seems Brink and Maasdam weren’t far enough to the left for Indivisible’s backing, which at the national level calls for defunding ICE and Customs and Border Patrol and accuses Republicans of creating “concentration camps.”

The org says “the GOP is trying to shower Trump’s secret police—which already gets more funding than most countries’ militaries—with even more money for concentration camps and militarized deployments to US cities.”

While Brink didn’t call to abolish ICE, she grossly misconstrues the work of federal agents.

“We must completely overhaul ICE and recalibrate its mission: keeping people safe and upholding the law and due process, not grabbing people off the street without warrants to meet arbitrary quotas and deporting people with no process,” Brink said.

In reality, ICE runs careful operations to arrest wanted criminals who roam our streets. Maasdam’s response to Indivisible also minimized the hard work of law enforcement, calling it all scare tactics.

“Right now Donald Trump is turning American cities into war zones and treating our fellow citizens like enemies,” Maasdam wrote in response to a questionnaire. “He is using ICE as his personal paramilitary force—deploying them to airports, and threatening to use them to intimidate Americans at the polls.”

Maasdam then called for Democrats to “fundamentally reform ICE and prevent them from ever being used in this manner again.”

Lawrence, Brink, and Maasdam say they back the inversion of our energy economy from one to supply and demand to one where bureaucrats decide what kinds of fuel are acceptable, no matter what normal Americans want or can afford.

Brink told Indivisible that “Michigan should be at the forefront of the economy of the future: the green energy economy.”

Paradoxically, Maasdam says: “We should stop letting politics drive energy policy,” while arguing for the reinstatement of wind and solar projects cancelled by Trump. “Cut the red tape that slows clean energy permitting, and let the market work.”

If only Democrats would stop claiming the world is going to end and let the market work, these candidates would have more common ground with normal people who are already struggling to afford a car payment.

Instead, they’re sounding the climate alarm bells and demanding everyone shell out for an EV in 10 years.

These Democrat candidates in Michigan’s 7th Congressional District are racing to the left. The only winners are the activists and politicos who use overblown rhetoric to oversimplify immigration and climate policies.

The losers are voters in Michigan who want some sanity in Congress.