Two candidates running for the Michigan Senate seat said this week that they had both been targets of swatting.
“today, [former Rep.] Mike Rogers [(R-Mich.)] “He was the target of a swatting attack at his Livingston County home,” Chris Gustafson, communications director for the Rogers campaign, said in a press release.
“Michigan State Police responded to the false threat and thankfully no one in the home was harmed,” Gustafson said. “Mike and his family are extremely grateful for the police’s professionalism and swift response.”
multiple The news media According to the report: Spokesperson Rogers’ Democratic rival, Rep. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, said she was a victim of swingers at her home the same week.
“It was a prank set up by someone who called and sent a bunch of police officers from Oakland County to my house,” Slotkin said. He said in a video on Friday “I wasn’t there at the time, but this was certainly something that was meant to confuse me, to confuse law enforcement, to distract police officers from all the other work that they were doing,” he said.
Both Rogers and Slotkin recently won their respective parties’ primaries to replace incumbent Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), and the race to replace Stabenow is one of the few to attract national attention because it takes place in a key battleground state.
“The news that Mike Rogers and his family were also ‘swatted’ is extremely disturbing. I am relieved to hear that he and his family were not harmed,” Slotkin said in a post on social platform X on Friday. “This type of behavior has no place in public life. I appreciate the Michigan State Police’s swift and professional response and hope that those responsible are investigated and held accountable by law enforcement.”
The Hill has reached out to Slotkin’s office.
