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Conner Wallace
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Conner Wallace (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Michigan House of Representatives to represent District 51. He lost in the Democratic primary on August 4, 2020.
Wallace completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Conner Wallace was born in Flushing, Michigan. He received a bachelor's degree from Kettering University.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: Michigan House of Representatives elections, 2020
General election
General election for Michigan House of Representatives District 51
Incumbent Mike Mueller defeated Brad May in the general election for Michigan House of Representatives District 51 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Mike Mueller (R) | 64.4 | 38,154 |
 | Brad May (D)  | 35.6 | 21,087 | |
| Total votes: 59,241 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 51
Brad May defeated Conner Wallace in the Democratic primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 51 on August 4, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Brad May | 55.9 | 5,204 |
 | Conner Wallace | 44.1 | 4,109 | |
| Total votes: 9,313 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 51
Incumbent Mike Mueller advanced from the Republican primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 51 on August 4, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Mike Mueller | 100.0 | 11,667 |
| Total votes: 11,667 | |||
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Campaign finance
Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Conner Wallace completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Wallace's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I am a life long flushing resident and have been studying to be a software engineer at Kettering University. I was inspired by the Sander's campaign to launch my own campaign to fight for working people within my own community. I am hoping that I can be a voice showing young people that elected office is obtainable and something to strive for.
- Funding michigan road construction
- Racial justice thought econmic and judicial reforms
- Increasing funding to all michigan schools
Striking worker's bill of rights. Protecting reproductive rights. Ending police violence through reform and defunding police departments. Ending police unions. Banning ads in food. Funding michigan roads via a gas tax. Raising property taxes statewide to pay for school funding. Taxing wealth in Michigan to fund social safety nets.
I was inspired to run for office after seeing the brilliant leadership of Bernie Sanders. He has been fighting for the American people for over twice as long as I have been alive. Every single day it seems he is finding to people that he can connect with and help them in their fight for a better live.
Our Revolution by Bernie Sanders. It clearly shows that it is simple create good legislation and the only difficulty is dealing with large corporations stealing from the working people.
The first historical event that I can clearly remember is the election of President Obama in 2008 when I was 10 years old. I have the privilege of being white and I when to almost all white schooling. I remember it being a very big deal that Obama was the first black president even if I was not yet educated on why that was important. In years since I have grown up to the see the racism embedded into our criminal justice system how many black people are brutalized by the police for the color of their skin. Today, the police are fighting desperately for their ability to kill black people in their own home without repercussions and I want to be someone fighting for policy to end this violence.
My first job was a bus boy at Rugerro's Restaurant in Flint. I worked there for 1 year during my senior year of high school before leaving for college. I felt that this was a great lesson in humility and in fighting for myself. I was paid less than minimum wage with the expectation that the waiters and waitresses would tip me that would generally have me making more that minimum wage. It didn't and an important lesson for me was to learn and fight for my rights. The owners were required by law to pay me the difference between my wage and minimum wage and once I was educated and fighting for that right I was able to keep proper payment. Now as politician I want to continue the fight to make sure that every single person is not only paid the legal minimum wage but also that they are paid good, liveable wages.
Experience will always be a benefit to help people achieve their goals in any work. Political experience is no different. However most working people are not satisfied with their current legislators state level or otherwise. I have have to feel there is a problem with our current legislators in both parties not representing the will of the working people. I feel most politicians only care about their own personal gain in politics or that gain of millionaires and billionaires.
Michigan will have to continue finding a new economic system that is not wholly dependent on the automotive industry for its stability. Michigan and Detroit was once the most prosperous area in America built solely on the automotive industry. But as federal politicians continue to right trade deals that only benefit large corporations, General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler continued to move jobs out of Michigan and into countries where they do not need to pay minimum wages. This has been crushing Michigan's economy for decades and this will continue until we can rebuild without dependence on the Big 3.
Ideally the Governor is just the head of administrating what the state legislature wants, this of course requires that they are in agreement over the vast majority of policy goals. When they are not aligned it is fine for the governor to be a check against the power of the state legislature or vice versa but that does not allow for productive change to happen and is not ideal.
Personal relationship are very useful for persuasion, ultimately every bill must get a majority of votes to become law and any tools to help get good policy passed into law should be used.
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See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on June 10, 2020
Current members of the Michigan House of Representatives
Leadership
Speaker of the House:Matt Hall
Minority Leader:Ranjeev Puri
Representatives
District 1
Tyrone Carter (D)
District 2
Tullio Liberati (D)
District 3
Alabas Farhat (D)
District 4
Karen Whitsett (D)
District 5
Regina Weiss (D)
District 6
Natalie Price (D)
District 7
District 8
Helena Scott (D)
District 9
Joseph Tate (D)
District 10
Veronica Paiz (D)
District 11
Donavan McKinney (D)
District 12
Kimberly Edwards (D)
District 13
Mai Xiong (D)
District 14
Mike McFall (D)
District 15
Erin Byrnes (D)
District 16
Stephanie Young (D)
District 17
Laurie Pohutsky (D)
District 18
Jason Hoskins (D)
District 19
District 20
Noah Arbit (D)
District 21
Kelly Breen (D)
District 22
Matt Koleszar (D)
District 23
Jason Morgan (D)
District 24
Ranjeev Puri (D)
District 25
Peter Herzberg (D)
District 26
Dylan Wegela (D)
District 27
Rylee Linting (R)
District 28
Jamie Thompson (R)
District 29
James DeSana (R)
District 30
William Bruck (R)
District 31
Reggie Miller (D)
District 32
Jimmie Wilson (D)
District 33
Morgan Foreman (D)
District 34
District 35
Jennifer Wortz (R)
District 36
Steve Carra (R)
District 37
Brad Paquette (R)
District 38
Joey Andrews (D)
District 39
Pauline Wendzel (R)
District 40
Matt Longjohn (D)
District 41
Julie Rogers (D)
District 42
Matt Hall (R)
District 43
Rachelle Smit (R)
District 44
Steve Frisbie (R)
District 45
Sarah Lightner (R)
District 46
Kathy Schmaltz (R)
District 47
Carrie Rheingans (D)
District 48
Jennifer Conlin (D)
District 49
Ann Bollin (R)
District 50
Jason Woolford (R)
District 51
Matt Maddock (R)
District 52
Mike Harris (R)
District 53
Brenda Carter (D)
District 54
Donni Steele (R)
District 55
Mark Tisdel (R)
District 56
Sharon MacDonell (D)
District 57
Thomas Kuhn (R)
District 58
Ron Robinson (R)
District 59
Douglas Wozniak (R)
District 60
Joseph Aragona (R)
District 61
Denise Mentzer (D)
District 62
District 63
Jay DeBoyer (R)
District 64
Joseph Pavlov (R)
District 65
Jaime Greene (R)
District 66
Josh Schriver (R)
District 67
Phil Green (R)
District 68
David Martin (R)
District 69
Jasper Martus (D)
District 70
Cynthia Neeley (D)
District 71
Brian BeGole (R)
District 72
Mike Mueller (R)
District 73
Julie Brixie (D)
District 74
Kara Hope (D)
District 75
District 76
Angela Witwer (D)
District 77
Emily Dievendorf (D)
District 78
Gina Johnsen (R)
District 79
Angela Rigas (R)
District 80
Phil Skaggs (D)
District 81
Stephen Wooden (D)
District 82
Kristian Grant (D)
District 83
John Fitzgerald (D)
District 84
Carol Glanville (D)
District 85
Bradley Slagh (R)
District 86
Nancy De Boer (R)
District 87
William Snyder (D)
District 88
Greg VanWoerkom (R)
District 89
Luke Meerman (R)
District 90
Bryan Posthumus (R)
District 91
Pat Outman (R)
District 92
Jerry Neyer (R)
District 93
Tim Kelly (R)
District 94
Amos O'Neal (D)
District 95
Bill Schuette (R)
District 96
Timothy Beson (R)
District 97
Matthew Bierlein (R)
District 98
District 99
Mike Hoadley (R)
District 100
Tom Kunse (R)
District 101
Joseph Fox (R)
District 102
Curt VanderWall (R)
District 103
Betsy Coffia (D)
District 104
John Roth (R)
District 105
Ken Borton (R)
District 106
Cameron Cavitt (R)
District 107
Parker Fairbairn (R)
District 108
David Prestin (R)
District 109
Karl Bohnak (R)
District 110
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Democratic Party (52)
