After careful review of all the information obtained by MTA-PAC Committee members, the committee has made endorsements for the Aug. 3 primary election. Members of the committee reviewed all 110 races for the Michigan House of Representatives and 38 races for the Michigan Senate, which consisted of over 660 total candidates. Committee members determined that the following candidates would best benefit MTA's efforts in gaining positive legislation on behalf of townships, as well as opposing legislation harmful to townships.

For those districts not listed, no endorsement was made for the primary. If more than one name per district is listed, a candidate in both the Republican and Democrat primary election was endorsed. Following the primary, the committee will again review the races for the November general election. General election endorsements will be published in the October issues of Michigan Township News and Capitol Currents.

The MTA-PAC Committee encourages township officials to do all they can to support these candidates. Involvement by township officials in many cases can make the difference in closely contested races. The MTA-PAC Committee also wishes to thank those township officials who took the time to send in their ballots and information on the candidates. Your input was very important to PAC Committee members in making decisions on which candidates to endorse in the Aug. 3 primary election. Thank you!

MTA would like to offer a reminder to township officials that all political activities must take place outside of your public office and may not involve any public funds in any manner.

Michigan Senate Candidates

District/Party/Candidate's Name

001        D-Coleman A. Young

003        D-Morris Hood

004        D-George Cushingberry, Jr.

005        D-Tupac A. Hunter

006        D-Glenn S. Anderson

007        R-Deborah Whyman and D-Kathleen Law

008        D-Hoon-Yung Hopgood

009        D-Steven Bieda

010        D-Paul Gieleghem and R-Tory Rocca

011        R-Kim Meltzer

012        R-Jim Marleau

013        R- John Pappageorge

014        D-Vincent Gregory

015        R-Mike Kowall

016        R-Bruce Caswell

017        R-Randy Richardville

019        R-Mike Nofs

020        R-Tonya Schuitmaker and D-Robert B. Jones

021        R-John Proos

022        R-Joe Hune

023        D- Gretchen Whitmer

024        R-Rick Jones

025        R-Phil Pavlov

026        D-Jim Slezak and
            R-David B. Robertson

027        D- John J. Gleason

028        R- Mark C. Jansen

029        R-Dave Hildenbrand and D-Robert Dean

030        R-Arlan B. Meekhof

031        D-Jeff Mayes

032        R-Roger Kahn

033        R-Brian N. Calley

035        R-Darwin L. Booher

036        R-John Moolenaar

037        R-Howard Walker

038        D-Michael A. Lahti 

Michigan House of Representatives Candidates

District/Party/Candidate's Name

001        D-Timothy Bledsoe

006        D-Fred Durhal, Jr.

007        D-Jimmy Womack

009        D-Shanelle Jackson

011        D-David E. Nathan

012        D-Rashida Tlaib

013        D-Andrew J. Kandrevas

014        D-Paul Clemente

016        D-Bob Constan

018        D-Richard LeBlanc

019        R-John J. Walsh

020        D-Joan Wadsworth and R-Kurt Heise

021        D-Dian Slavens and R-Shannon Price

022        D-Douglas A. Geiss

023        D-Deb Kennedy

025        D-Jon M. Switalski

027        D-Ellen Cogen Lipton

028        D-Lesia Liss

029        D-Tim Melton

032        D-Jennifer Haase

033        R-Gina Bucci

034        D-Woodrow Stanley

037        D-Vicki Barnett

038        R-Hugh D. Crawford

039        D-Lisa Brown

040        R-Chuck Moss

041        R-Marty Knollenberg

042        D-Harold L. Haugh

043        R-Gail Haines

044        R-Eileen Kowall

045        R-Tom McMillin

047        R-Cindy Denby

048        D-Richard E. Hammel

049        D-Jim Ananich

050        D-Gerald Masters

052        D-Christine Green and R-Mark Ouimet

054        D-David E. Rutledge

055        R-Mary Kay Thayer

056        D-Kate Ebli

057        R-Nancy E. Jenkins

058        R-Kenneth L. Kurtz

059        R-Matt Lori

060        D-Sean McCann

061        R-Margaret E. O'Brien

062        D-Kate Segal

063        R-James Bolger

064        D-Martin J. Griffin

065        R-Mike Shirkey

066        R-Bill Rogers

067        D-Barb Byrum

068        D-Joan Bauer

069        D-Mark S. Meadows

070        D-Mike Huckleberry

071        R-Deb Shaughnessy

072        R-Ken Yonker

073        R-Peter MacGregor

074        R-Dave Agema

075        D-Brandon Dillon and R-Jordan W. Bush

076        D-Roy Schmidt

077        R-Nate Vriesman

078        R-Sharon Tyler

079        R-Al Pscholka

080        R-Aric Nesbitt

081        R-Jud Gilbert

082        R-Kevin Daley

083        R-Alan J. Broughton

084        D-Terry L. Brown

085        R-Ben Glardon and
            D-Pamela Drake

086        R-Lisa Posthumus Lyons

087        R-Mike Callton

088        R-Bob Genetski

089        R-Amanda Price

090        R-Joe Haveman

091        D-Ben Gillette and R-Holly Hughes

092        D-Marcia Hovey-Wright

093        R-Paul E. Opsommer

094        R-Ken Horn

095        D-Greg Dietrich

096        D-Brian K. Elder

097        R-Joel Johnson and D-Mark Alan Lightfoot

098        R-Jim Stamas

099        R-Christine Alwood and D-Toni Sessoms

100        R-Jane Drake

101        D-Dan Scripps

102        R-Philip N. Potvin

103        D-Van Sheltrown

104        R-Wayne A. Schmidt

105        R-Kenneth R. Glasser

106        D-Patrick Pokorski and R-Peter Pettalia

107        D-Richard Timmer and R-Frank Foster

108        D-Judy Nerat

109        D-Steven W. Lindberg

110        D-Robert Black