Curtis Hertel
Role at the time: Chair of the Michigan Democratic Party
Responding to
Mike Rogers’s allegation about Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign received funding from a terrorist organization?
“Rogers’ remarks were dangerous and desperate, and they were beneath the office he seeks.”
Why we used this label
Hertel rejected the characterization advanced in Rogers’s remarks. His statement concerned the address overall, so it is not coded as a direct response to the campaign-finance claim.
Direct page access was unavailable when reviewed on September 11, 2026. Public search indexing exposed limited quotation excerpts. The article reports responses to Rogers’s September 10 convention address, which included the campaign-finance allegation. The reporting does not establish that either response specifically denied the funding sentence, so any related position must retain that limitation.