Wealthy DeVos family won't back Michigan's Amash in primary
LANSING, Mich. — The politically powerful DeVos family said Wednesday that it is no longer financially backing a Michigan congressman who is the first Republican on Capitol Hill to accuse President Donald Trump of impeachable conduct.
Nick Wasmiller, a spokesman for the family's RDV Corp., said family members have not made campaign contributions to five-term Rep. Justin Amash this political cycle and have no plans to do so.
Amash is facing a primary challenge for the first time since 2014, when billionaire members of the DeVos family — who live in Amash's Grand Rapids-area district — gave his campaign roughly $65,000 while others in the business community backed his challenger. Though Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has halted all of her political spending since joining Trump's Cabinet, others in the family — heirs to the Amway marketing empire — are still major GOP donors.
"Family members have expressed increasing concerns about a lack of representation for the Third Congressional District and an inability to advance efforts connected to important policy matters," Wasmiller said. "Recent statements by Congressman Amash have not changed the family's thinking regarding its intent to not provide future support."
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Fucking oligarch assholes.
