CHeck the facts

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Verify the facts: Helena Scott has taken over $140,00 from corporate PACs since 2020.

Helena Scott has raised a total of $326,239.66 for her campaign from when she first ran in 2020 through the latest close of books at the end of 2025.

According to her public filings, Scott has raised $149,100.00 from Political Action Committees (PACs) representing specific corporations (she accepted over $18,000 from DTE alone) or corporate associations (like the Chamber of Commerce).

She raised the remaining balance from individuals ($43,294.66) and other PACs ($133,845.00). In addition to her campaign committee, Scott’s Leadership PAC raised a separate $68,215.00 from Corporate PACs, on top of $14,700.00 from individual executives at DTE and other Utilities.

If you would like to do further research, you can view the data by searching her campaign committee (ID: 519473) and her PAC (ID: 519987) on the official Michigan Transparency Network Contribution Analysis search or unofficially on on TransparencyUSA.

Verify the facts: Helena Scott voted for millions in tax handouts for AI Data Centers

Helena Scott YES on a $90 Million tax break planfor AI Data Centers intended to attract big corporations like Google, Microsoft, and Oracle to Michigan.

In total, Scott voted in favor of tax handouts for AI Data Centers on four separate occasions:

  1. House Bill 4906 of 2023, Roll Call No. 501 on 11/08/2023

  2. House Bill 4905 of 2023, Roll Call No. 500 on 11/08/2023

  3. Senate Bill 237 of 2023, Roll Call No. 297 on 9/25/2024

  4. House Bill 4906 of 2023, Roll Call No. 331 on 11/13/2024

Verify the facts: Helena Scott failed to support universal healthcare in during the Democratic Trifecta

In 2023, Rep. Carrie Rheingans (D-Ann Arbor) introduced House Bill 4893 of 2023 to enact single-payer healthcare in Michigan. This bill was co-sponsored by 22 other Democrats. Helena Scott failed to co-sponsor this critical legislation when Democrats had the power to act on it. That failure is why two of its co-sponsors, Rep. Dylan Wegela and Rep. Natalie Price, endorse Chris. They know we can trust him to fight for universal healthcare.

Verify the facts: Helena Scott reimbursed herself over $63,000 from her campaign and PAC

In February, the Detroit News reported that “[a]cross 2023, 2024 and 2025, state Rep. Helena Scott, D-Detroit, received $63,655 in reimbursements from her campaign committee and political action committee (PAC), according to the accounts' disclosures.”

A majority of the reimbursements (slightly over $32,000) were for rental payments on an apartment in Lansing or “housing,” and another $5,514 were listed as reimbursements for “car payments.” Rep. Scott has been reimbursing herself using money from the same campaign and PAC that accepted tens of thousands of dollars from corporate PACs.

"No constituent has ever voiced a concern about that to me,” Scott said of donors paying for some of her housing and car expenses.

Asked if constituents were aware of it happening, she replied, "I guess you’d have to ask them."

Scott was the chairwoman of the House Energy, Communications and Technology Committee in 2023 and 2024, meaning she had direct sway over proposals related to Michiganians' electricity bills. She led the panel at a time when some lawmakers unsuccessfully pushed for legislative action to combat widespread power outages.

On Aug. 8, 2023, her campaign committee reported a single reimbursement to Scott of $14,153 for what was listed as "Lansing rental payment." From Jan. 1, 2023, through Aug. 8, 2023, her campaign's top donor was the political action committee of the state's largest electric utility, DTE Energy, which gave $9,000 to the Citizens to Elect Helena Scott. Jerry Norcia, the then-CEO of DTE Energy, personally appeared before Scott's committee on June 28, 2023.

Published in the Detroit News on Feb. 18, 2026, written by Craig Mauger. An archive of the article may be found here.