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Senator-elect Elissa Slotkin (D-MI)
LISTEN: Laslo & Slotkin
Ask a Pol asks:
Do you know where you are on SAFER Banking Act?
Key Slotkin:
“I'm a fan. I believe in it,” Senator-elect Elissa Slotkin exclusively tells Ask a Pol. “I couldn't explain to you why people don't support it on either side of the aisle.”
Caught our ear:
“I want that industry — that's now worth billions of dollars and legal in the United States — to be able to bank,” Slotkin tells us.
Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s exclusive interview with Senator-elect Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), slightly edited for clarity.
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TRANSCRIPT: Senator-elect Elissa Slotkin
SCENE: Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo runs into Senator-elect Elissa Slotkin as she’s casting one of her last votes in the US House of Representatives in December 2024.
Matt Laslo: “Do you know where you are on SAFER Banking Act?”
Elissa Slotkin: “Pardon?”
ML: “SAFER Banking Act — it’s the cannabis…”
ES: “SAFE — I don't think it's SAFER, is it?”
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ML: “It used to be SAFE…”
ES: “Oh really. Oh, okay.”
ML: “…and then they added the ‘R'.’”
ES: “I am a co-sponsor.”
ML: “Yeah.”
ES: “I'm a fan. I believe in it, and I don't understand why we — I couldn't explain to you why people don't support it…”
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ML: “Yeah?”
ES: “…like, on either side of the aisle.”
ML: “Yeah? What do you make of the talking points. Like, being there in Michigan, like, the reality looks a lot different than the talking points on that issue.”
ES: “On that issue?”
ML: “Yeah.”
ES: “Oh, I don't know what the talking points are. I can just tell you that I want that industry — that's now worth billions of dollars and legal in the United States — to be able to bank.”
ML: “Yeah?”
ES: “That's it. That's it.”
Laslo laughs.
ES: “Period.”
Slotkin heads to the House floor to vote.
ML: “I'll be watchin. Thank you ma’am.”
LJ Dawson contributed to this reporting.
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