MI-07: Tom Barrett Scrambles to Bury His Data Center Past
If you watched this new ad in the toss-up Seventh Congressional District in Michigan and had no knowledge of the race, you wouldn’t know whether the person talking was a Republican or a Democrat. “Michigan water, Michigan land, and Michigan’s future belong to Michiganders,” the candidate says, shooting from the hip from a bar. “So while politicians are cozying up with Big Tech billionaires to force data centers on our communities, I stood up to my own party and voted against giving your tax dollars to data centers.”
Here's Barrett's data center ad, he attempts a local control message but otherwise he's chasing Lawrence, who's already established authenticity on this.A revealing (also probably a losing) Republican catch-up message. pic.twitter.com/v5EWzBZrcb
The ad comes from Rep. Tom Barrett, the Republican incumbent trying to hold onto his seat. And it’s in tiny print, but the vote he’s talking about was from 2015, when “AI” was still mostly the name of a forgettable Steven Spielberg …