Today, the Serious About Safety PAC (SASPAC) officially launches with a six-figure investment in candidates who are paving a new path forward with real, proven public safety solutions. For the 2026 midterms, SASPAC is backing two candidates who reject “tough-on-crime” fearmongering and champion community-based solutions for crime prevention paired with effective, accountable policing. 

Abdul El-Sayed for U.S. Senate in Michigan 

Abdul El-Sayed knows that safe communities are built on proven solutions. As executive director of the Detroit Health Department and later as health director of Wayne County, El-Sayed partnered with local law enforcement on community programs, including to tackle the overdose crisis. As a senator, he’ll fund trained mental health responders so people in crisis get the right help, expand treatment for addiction, and invest in community programs that stop violence before it happens–building safer, stronger futures for all Michiganders. Michigan voters want a senator who supports the police officers who put their lives on the line every day while holding those who use excessive force or abuse their power accountable. This is the senator that El-Sayed will be.

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David Crowley for Governor of Wisconsin 

David Crowley has built his campaign around the idea that Wisconsinites deserve real investments that will make our neighborhoods safer and improve everyone’s quality of life. As Milwaukee county executive, Crowley expanded mental health emergency response and invested in evidence-based gun violence prevention. In Wisconsin, voters want leaders who will fully fund things that are proven to create safe communities—like good schools, jobs, and affordable housing—and help prevent crime by increasing treatment for mental health and drug addiction and by getting illegal guns off the street. Crowley will make those investments a reality as governor.  

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“Voters in Michigan and Wisconsin want leaders who are serious about safety, not politicians who just talk tough,” said Ellen Flenniken, a board member at SASPAC. “Public opinion research shows that a serious, solutions-oriented approach to public safety wins with voters in battleground states. While their opponents resort to scare tactics, Abdul El-Sayed and David Crowley are not backing down from proven solutions that work to prevent crime and break its cycle: mental health services and addiction treatment, youth programs, education, good jobs, affordable housing, and getting illegal guns off the street.”