West Michigan Democratic Elected Officials
Michigan State House
60: Robert Jones
70: Mike Huckleberry
75: Robert Dean
76: Roy Schmidt
91: Mary Valentine
92: Doug Bennett
101: Dan Scripps
Candidates
US Congress
Fred Johnson (2nd District)
Pat Miles (3rd District)
Jerry Campbell (4th District)
Don Cooney (6nd District)
Statewide Candidates
Virg Bernero
Jocelyn Benson
David Leyton
Michgan Senate Candidates
District 20 Kalamazoo
Robert Jones
District 21 Berrien, Cass, Van Buren
Scott Elliott
District 24 Allegan, Barry, Eaton
Michelle DiSano
District 28 Kent (part)
Robin Golden
District 29 Kent (part)
David LaGrand
District 30 Ottawa
John Chester
District 34 Muskegon, Oceana, Mason, Newaygo
Mary Valentine
District 35 Northwest LP
Roger Dunigan
District 37 Grand Traverse & north
Bob Carr
Michigan State House Candidates
District 59 (St. Joseph & Cass Counties)
Carol Higgins
District 60 (Kalamazoo)
Sean McCann
District 61 (Kalamazoo)
Thomas Batten
District 63 (Kalamazoo)
David Morgan
District 70 (Ionia & Montcalm Counties)
Mike Huckleberry
District 72 (Kentwood & Cascade)
Brian Bosak
District 73 (Kent County)
Jerrod Roberts
District 74 (Ottawa County)
Leon Chase
District 75 (Grand Rapids)
Brandon Dillon
District 76 (Grand Rapids)
Roy Schmidt
District 77 (Wyoming)
Scott Baron
District 78 (Berrien County)
Cindy Ellis
District 79 (Berrien County)
Julee Laurent
District 80 (VanBuren)
Tom Erdmann
District 86 (Kent County)
Frank Hammond
District 87 (Barry & Ionia Counties)
Greg Grieves
District 89 (Ottawa County)
Donald Bergman
District 91 (Muskegon)
Ben Gillette
District 92 (Muskegon)
Marcia Hovey-Wright
District 100 (Newaygo, Lake, and Oceana Counties)
Donald Bergman
District 101 (Northwest)
Dan Scripps
County Commissions Candidates
Allegan County Commission
9 Fritz Spreitzer (I)
10 April Carvalho
Barry County Commission
1 Bob Dickinson
Benzie County Commission
3 Kristin Hollenbeck (I)
4 Anne Damm (I)
6 Donald Tanner (I)
Berrien County Commission
3 Marletta Seats (I)
4 Mamie Yarbrough (I)
10 Andrew Vavra (I)
11 Jess Minks
12 Michael Ringler
13 John Klimek (I)
Cass County Commission
1 Ed Goodman (I)
7 David Taylor (I)
9 Judy Helpingstine
11 Clark Cobb (I)
12 Minnie Warren (I)
13 Johnie Rodebush (I)
14 Debbie Johnson (I)
Grand Traverse County Commission
1 Bernol Soutar
Ionia County Commission
1 Lynn Mason (I)
4 Mark Vroman (I)
Kalamazoo County Commission
1 Jack Urban (I)
2 Carolyn Alford (I)
3 Robert Barnard (I)
4 John Taylor (I)
5 Brian Johnson (I)
6 Mike Seals
7 David Buskirk (I)
9 Chuck Vliek
10 Michael Quinn (I)
11 Barb Hammon
12 Scott McCormick
13 Harvey Hanna
15 Leroy Crabtree
16 Thomas Post
17 Jerry Rudolph
Kent County Commission
1 Mary Lauka
2 Patricia Kramer
3 James Black
4 Fred Clowney
6 James Rinck
7 Al Nielsen
8 Keith Courtade (I)
9 Duane Sprague
10 Albert Abbasse
11 Russell Duffin
12 Pete Hickey (I)
13 Kyle Hinton
14 Carol Hennessy (I)
15 Dick Bulkowski (I)
16 Jim Talen (I)
17 Candace Chivis
18 Richard Tormala
19 Bob Synk (I)
Leelanau County Commission
3 Jason Harrall
6 David Marshall (I)
7 Karl Dungjen
Manistee County Commission
2 Marlene E. Wood-Zylstra
3 Glenn Lottie (I)
4 Ervin A. Kowalski (I)
5 Karl R. Waitner
6 Jim Krolczyk (I)
7 Carl Rutske (I)
Montcalm County Commission
1 Ronald C. Blanding (I)
Mason County Commission
5 Jerome Rybicki (I)
8 David Fonnesbeck
Musekgon County Commission
1 Kenneth Mahoney (I)
2 Charles Buzzell (I)
4 James Derezinski (I)
5 Carl Wentzlof
6 Lew Collins (I)
7 Scott Plummer
8 Anthony Longmire
9 Rillastine Wilkins
10 Benjamin Cross
11 John Jurkas
Newaygo County Commission
1 Barbara Geno (I)
5 Rick Werkema
Oceana County Commission
1 David Spitler
5 Evelyn Kolbe (I)
Ottawa County Commission
3 Jeff Williams
Van Buren County Commission
1 Claudia Maddox
3 Al Hughes
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Very briefly, NOTHING was brought up during the meeting about the whole primary/caucus/delegate situation. It was just not there, as far as the DSSC was concerned.
Following the meeting, Mark Brewer ran a training on the district convention process. Most of that followed the Delegate Selection Plan, nothing new if you have read that.
There were only a few things my ears perked up at -
1) Each caucus at the convention (Clinton, and Uncommitted) will have a temporary chair, whose job it is to run the election for a permanent chair. In the case of the Clinton caucus, her campaign will designate the temporary chair, but for the Uncommitted caucus, Brewer will do so, looking (he said) for someone who will NOT run for permanent chair, who has some stature, will run the election for permanent chair and then get out of the way. The permanent chair of each caucus will then run the election of delegates within that caucus, so it should be someone with authority who knows what they are doing. The Uncommitted folks in the districts might be thinking about who could do this to make things run smoothly.
2) Brewer said that each delegate must be elected by a MAJORITY of the caucus, not just a plurality. This means that if there are multiple candidates for each slot, and no one gets a majority, the candidate with the lowest vote total is dropped, and the caucus votes again. Each time, we'll be going through the proportional representation calculation (weighted by county), so if there are a lot of votes, this could get pretty complicated. For the 6th CD convention, I'm going to offer a spreadsheet with the proportional representation formulas already written, to save time and possible errors.
3) I heard through the grapevine that the state party is still looking for more delegate candidates in the 6th to run for the Clinton slots. Seems strange that there are not enough folks who want to be delegates, especially in one of the most hotly contested primary seasons we have ever had. of course, the uncertainty about whether the delegates will actually be seated has a lot to do with it. Any other districts having this issue?