“Detroit-area residents are seeing a lot of Shri Thanedar’s face if they flip on the television, and taxpayers are footing the bill to broadcast two 30-second advertisements starring ‘Congressman Shri’ at the U.S. Capitol,” the Detroit News reports.
“The Democratic congressman is flooding airwaves in the Detroit market with a whopping $789,000 in taxpayer-funded TV ads reserved for this month alone and another $40,000 in radio advertisements, according to ad tracking data.
The ad spending represents about 44% of Thanedar’s $1.9 million office budget for the entire year.”