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Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for December 1, 2025.

Thanks to great reporting from Tom Perkins in Michigan Advance, we learned that top lawyers for Michigan's utility monopolies, DTE and Consumers' Energy, have given multiple donations to Karen McDonald, who's running in the Michigan Democratic Party's Attorney General primary race. 

This is important since one of the main jobs for Michigan's Attorney General is to represent working class Michiganders against the utility monopolies that keep seeking massive energy rate hikes.

Even more, with Big Tech invading Michigan to build its energy and job-sucking A.I. data centers across the state, the AG is expected to fight on behalf of working class Michiganders, who are against these data centers. 

Why are individuals from DTE and Consumers giving to Karen McDonald?

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NOTES:

"Utility lawyers’ donations to Michigan AG candidate raise conflict-of-interest concerns." By Tom Perkins of Michigan Advance

"Oakland Co. Prosecutor Karen McDonald is top fundraiser among candidates for Michigan AG." By Paul Egan of The Detroit Free Press