Lansing, MI – Today will mark 24 days of Senate District 35 being vacant.
For weeks, hundreds of thousands of Michigan taxpayers in the Great Lakes Bay Region have had no voice in Michigan’s State Senate as Governor Gretchen Whitmer refuses to call a special election for the vacancy created by Kristin McDonald Rivet.
While taxpayers wait to get a voice back, the Michigan Freedom Fund has created a clock at RestoreMIVoice.com counting how much time taxpayers in the Great Lakes Bay Region have been without a State Senator, down to the second.
“Every Michigan taxpayer should rightfully expect a voice in their government. But right now over a quarter million taxpayers in the Great Lakes Bay Region are being sidelined by Governor Whitmer’s inaction,” said Zach Rudat, Advocacy Director for Michigan Freedom Fund. “Whitmer’s been quick to call these special elections in the past and there’s no reason why she can’t do so again today. Michiganders in SD 35 deserve the same representation in Lansing that every other Michigan taxpayer has today, and they deserve it as soon as possible.”
Whitmer has often played politics with special elections. Below you will find a table laying out a clearly established track record of accelerated or delayed special election announcements from Governor Whitmer, depending on how problematic (or helpful) a given vacancy is to her party’s power in Lansing.
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