More than one-third of the current members of the Michigan House of Representatives are barred from returning next year — they’ll be booted out of office by Michigan’s term limits law.
That creates opportunity for Center for Michigan volunteers to begin the long and steady process of educating the next generation of leaders in Lansing about the common ground, transformational agenda that more than 1,800 of you across the state have helped create.
The Center will unveil that agenda on Thursday, May 22, with a celebration in Lansing for the one-year anniversary of the Michigan’s Defining Moment Public Engagement Campaign. Next week’s newsletter will exclusively focus on the report we’re releasing on the 22nd.
Soon thereafter, it’s time we’ll begin to organize volunteer meetings with many of those who seek seats this fall in the Michigan House of Representatives. Email us if you’d like to get involved.
To get a sense for the competitive nature of some of the open seats, take a peek into the candidates in 37th District centered in Farmington Hills. Former Oakland County Republican Party Chair Paul Welday is one of three GOP members seeking to square off against former Farmington Hills Mayor Vicki Barnett.
Across the state, in Grand Rapids, the backlash over last fall’s budget gridlock and tax increase can be seen in the 75th District race where incumbent Democrat Robert Dean, a first-termer, faces three GOP challengers running largely anti-tax, anti-Lansing campaigns.
To get familiar with the candidates in your area, peruse the list of all statewide candidates from the Secretary of State Elections Division
One Comment
I think there are good and bad points about both term limits and length of terms, but i really think both should be extended in length. I think that would be the best compromise.
For grand legislators that have eventually run the length of their terms, and still want to work in the government sector to help the citizenry, why not create a continuous analysis panel made up of the most experienced and most effective former state legislators with staff to analyze major issues and provide recommendations and conclusions?
I know we occassionally have that kind of thing happen already but maybe we need a more permanent and more vocal group from that source of knowledge.