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Bill Saxton
Bill Saxton (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Michigan House of Representatives to represent District 73. He lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.
Saxton completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Bill Saxton earned a bachelor's degree from Boston University in 1999.[1]
Elections
2024
Bill Saxton ran for East Grand Rapids Public Schools school board. Click here to learn more.
2020
See also: Michigan House of Representatives elections, 2020
General election
General election for Michigan House of Representatives District 73
Bryan Posthumus defeated Bill Saxton, Theodore Gerrard, and Ron Heeren in the general election for Michigan House of Representatives District 73 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Bryan Posthumus (R)  | 57.0 | 37,137 |
| Bill Saxton (D) | 41.7 | 27,178 | ||
| Theodore Gerrard (U.S. Taxpayers Party of Michigan) | 1.3 | 877 | ||
| Ron Heeren (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 1 | ||
| Total votes: 65,193 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 73
Bill Saxton advanced from the Democratic primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 73 on August 4, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Bill Saxton | 100.0 | 10,517 | |
| Total votes: 10,517 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 73
Bryan Posthumus defeated John Inhulsen and Robert Regan in the Republican primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 73 on August 4, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Bryan Posthumus | 46.1 | 7,853 |
| John Inhulsen | 29.0 | 4,941 | ||
 | Robert Regan | 24.9 | 4,239 | |
| Total votes: 17,033 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Brandon Sinclair (R)
U.S. Taxpayers Party of Michigan convention
U.S. Taxpayers Party of Michigan convention for Michigan House of Representatives District 73
Theodore Gerrard advanced from the U.S. Taxpayers Party of Michigan convention for Michigan House of Representatives District 73 on July 25, 2020.
Candidate | ||
| ✔ | Theodore Gerrard (U.S. Taxpayers Party of Michigan) | |
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
To view Saxton's endorsements in the 2020 election, please click here.
2018
General election
Lynn Afendoulis defeated Bill Saxton in the general election for Michigan House of Representatives District 73 on November 6, 2018.
General election
General election for Michigan House of Representatives District 73
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Lynn Afendoulis (R) | 60.1 | 30,783 |
| Bill Saxton (D) | 39.9 | 20,430 | ||
| Total votes: 51,213 (100.00% precincts reporting) | |||
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Democratic primary election
Bill Saxton advanced from the Democratic primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 73 on August 7, 2018.
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 73
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Bill Saxton | 100.0 | 9,416 | |
| Total votes: 9,416 | |||
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Republican primary election
Lynn Afendoulis defeated Robert Regan, Ken Fortier, and David Spencer in the Republican primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 73 on August 7, 2018.
Republican primary election
Republican primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 73
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Lynn Afendoulis | 49.0 | 7,166 |
| Robert Regan | 23.9 | 3,503 | |
| Ken Fortier | 14.5 | 2,119 | ||
| David Spencer | 12.6 | 1,840 | ||
| Total votes: 14,628 | |||
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Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Bill Saxton completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Saxton's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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From a young age, Bill's parents, a U.S. Navy Seal and a saleswoman, instilled in him the values of respect, integrity, service, and civic responsibility. Growing up in a working-class family that stressed the importance of hard work and education, Bill began working at a neighborhood deli when he was 15 years old. He worked his way through high school and college, and graduated summa cum laude from Boston University. Bill pursued a career in computer systems engineering and started a real estate small business, investing in and developing properties in neighborhoods hit hard by the Great Recession. He saw firsthand the outdated, complicated web of rules, barriers, and bureaucracies facing small business owners. Bill is raising his three young children in Kent County with his wife Barbara, an interventional cardiologist at University of Michigan Metro Hospital.
In his free time, he enjoys spending time with family, coaching his daughter's peewee soccer team, cooking, and staying active in the community.- GET MICHIGAN WORKING - Provide free COVID testing, expand paid sick leave, and make childcare more affordable, so families can make ends meet and we can keep our community healthy.
- REDUCE HEALTHCARE COSTS - Advocate for a competitive prescription drug market with other countries like Canada and cap the price of insulin and other life-saving medicines.
- INVEST IN EDUCATION - Protect our community's K-12 schools from devastating budget cuts and expand post-secondary opportunities such as affordable college and skilled trades training.
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2018
Ballotpedia survey responses
- See also: Ballotpedia's candidate surveys
Bill Saxton participated in Ballotpedia's candidate survey on August 22, 2018. The survey questions appear in bold, and Bill Saxton's responses follow below.[2]
What would be your top three priorities, if elected?
| “ | Increasing funding for K-12 education and expanding opportunities in the skilled trades Ensuring everyone has access to safe and affordable drinking water |
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What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about? Why?
| “ | Michigan's public education system is struggling due to inadequate funding and burdensome every-changing assessments. We need to increasing per pupil spending across the board, reduce the intrusiveness of student assessments, and maintain a consistent set of assessments/curriculum so that teachers and administrators can properly evaluate teaching effectiveness.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; invalid names, e.g. too many[4]
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See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on July 26, 2020
- ↑ Note: The candidate's answers have been reproduced here verbatim without edits or corrections by Ballotpedia.
- ↑ Ballotpedia's candidate survey, "Bill Saxton's responses," August 22, 2018
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
