MI-GOV: National group helps fund Michigan senator's campaign for governor, through web of PACs
Lansing — GOPAC, a Virginia-based Republican group funded by some of the nation's largest companies, flowed more than $400,000 through a web of accounts to Michigan Senate Minority Leader Aric Nesbitt's campaign to be the next governor, according to an analysis of public disclosures.
The arrangement involves an influential GOP organization, Nesbitt, who's a key state lawmaker, and about 19% of the money he's collected so far to run for the state's top elected office.
Likewise, the movement of the dollars from the national organization through a string of political action committees (PACs) makes it difficult to track potential connections between donors and Nesbitt, who's from Van Buren County and leads an 18-member caucus in the state Senate.
The Detroit News tallied about $428,000 of the $2.2 million that Nesbitt has raised so far as donations linked back to GOPAC. Most of the money was given to Nesbitt's campaign on either Jan. 14 — the day he announced his bid for governor — or Jan. 15, records show.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/16/michigan-senator-aric-nesbitt-governor-campaign-cash-gopac/85674975007/