Michigan Dem Senate candidate pushing water affordability agenda racked up unpaid bills on $1.28M home

Democrat Senate candidate Mallory McMorrow accrued nearly a year’s worth of unpaid utility charges on her million-dollar home while campaigning on affordability.Until Friday, McMorrow and her husband, former Gawker executive Ray Wert, had not paid water or sewer charges on their home in Royal Oak, Mich., since June 2025, according to records reviewed by Fox News Digital.The property had accrued $3,000.37 in unpaid bills and late fees. The debt was paid shortly after Fox News Digital reached out for comment. “The bills in question have been paid,” the spokesperson said.“We respect the commitment to covering anything other than the fact that every single American’s bills — from gas to groceries to electricity — are going way up because of Donald Trump and his enablers like Mike Rogers.”McMorrow, a state legislator vying for the Democratic nomination in one of the country’s top Senate races, has repeatedly fallen behind on payments in recent years. Records show the couple has been fined 10 times totaling more than $400 in late fees for nonpayment since late 2021, when they purchased a $1.28 million home in the Detroit suburb.A report in the Detroit Metro Times that year described the property — with a pool and outside courtyard — as a home “to marvel at.”McMorrow and Wert also let overdue water bills pile up on the home in the latter half of 2024, when they went five months without making a payment.When the couple finally paid $917 in January 2025, records showed an unpaid balance of $45 in late fees.Royal Oak Township sends water bills quarterly and assesses a 5% late fee on unpaid balances.If McMorrow had failed to pay the balance by June 1, another 5% penalty would have been added, according to a billing notice.Under Royal Oak policy, unpaid water and sewer bills can eventually be added to the couple’s property tax bill and prolonged nonpayment can result in water shutoff.The delinquent payments come as recent disclosures show McMo...