State Rep. Jamie Thompson (R-Brownstown Township) paid her son Jackson more than $24,000 in consulting fees from August 2024 through December 2025 for canvassing and general consulting, according to campaign finance disclosures reviewed by the Detroit News.
That amount totals around 15% of the campaign’s expenditures in that period, and includes over $5,000 since her son was charged with domestic violence in Wayne County last September. There is no law in Michigan against paying family members for services with campaign funds, though the Detroit News noted that it is increasingly rare in Lansing.
Thompson defended the payments to her son, arguing that, when seeking her seat in the Legislature, which she was first elected to in 2022, she “didn’t have fancy out of state donors or some massive team locally.”…