One promise you can actually check:
a six-month freeze on DTE and Consumers rate hikes.
Not "energy policy." Not a task force. Your bill, held still.
Go look at your bill
Find what you paid DTE or Consumers five years ago and what you pay
now. Nobody put that increase to a vote. Somebody approved it, and
somebody took their money.
A rate freeze is the rare campaign promise that passes the only test
worth applying: a year from now you will be able to tell
whether it happened. "Fighting for working families" fails
that test. "Freeze the rate hikes" passes it.
He is not running like it's owed to him
He has said plainly that this race is not a coronation, and that
voters want actions rather than talking points from establishment
candidates.
For a lot of people that is the most important sentence in the race —
not because of who it is aimed at, but because somebody finally said
the obvious thing out loud. He has also run this deliberately as
"options, not opponents," which is a strange way to run if you are
only in it for yourself.
Name the object
If you take one thing from this page: this is about the number on
your utility bill. Everything else is downstream of who gets to set
that number and who they answer to.