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Kathy Clark (Michigan)

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Kathy Clark
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Republican Party

Elections and appointments
Last election

August 2, 2022

Education

Bachelor's

Michigan State University, 1973

Other

Western Theological Seminary, 1996

Personal
Birthplace
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Religion
Evangelical Presbyterian
Profession
Chaplain
Contact

Campaign website

Kathy Clark (Republican Party) ran for election to the Michigan House of Representatives to represent District 90. She lost in the Republican primary on August 2, 2022.

Clark completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Kathy Clark was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She earned a bachelor's degree from Michigan State University in 1973 and additional education from the Western Theological Seminary in 1996. Her career experience includes working as a chaplain. Clark has been affiliated with Stand up Michigan and Michigan Health Choice Alliance.[1]

Elections

2022

See also: Michigan House of Representatives elections, 2022

General election

General election for Michigan House of Representatives District 90

Incumbent Bryan Posthumus defeated Meagan Hintz in the general election for Michigan House of Representatives District 90 on November 8, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Bryan Posthumus
Bryan Posthumus (R)
 
62.1
 
29,448
Image of Meagan Hintz
Meagan Hintz (D) Candidate Connection
 
37.9
 
17,992

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 47,440
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 90

Meagan Hintz advanced from the Democratic primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 90 on August 2, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Meagan Hintz
Meagan Hintz Candidate Connection
 
100.0
 
5,826

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 5,826
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 90

Incumbent Bryan Posthumus defeated Kathy Clark in the Republican primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 90 on August 2, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Bryan Posthumus
Bryan Posthumus
 
66.1
 
11,016
Image of Kathy Clark
Kathy Clark Candidate Connection
 
33.9
 
5,659

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 16,675
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Campaign themes

2022

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Candidate Connection

Kathy Clark completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Clark's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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As a retired Grand Rapids Police Officer, retired pastor, retired Rockford School Bus Driver and former Michigan State Director of Convention of States, I have spent a lifetime of service. I have also spent decades of fighting to save people, Michigan and America. We all have been awakened to the fact that our state and nation are in peril. I am no longer voting for people who tell me what they believe or think I want them to believe every time they run for office with no actions in between. Therefore, I will hit the ground running with plans to restore election integrity; restore schools to parents and their community, (the money will follow the student); protect life; restore the 1st, 2nd, 9th and 10th amendments; protect women's/girls' sports, locker rooms and bathrooms; restore law and order and support our law enforcement officers; address the current crisis of energy costs and food supply shortages; and restore government to the people. "Freedom and responsibility go hand in hand." For too long we have enjoyed our freedom and neglected our responsibility. It's time for each one of us to stand up save our state and nation. Join me.
  • I am not a politician. Like you, I am a mother and a grandmother who is concerned about the country that I will leave to my grandchildren. I have served you as a precinct delegate, organizing petition drives, going door to door and manning phone banks to get people elected who would speak for us as our representatives and preserve our nation. Many of them go to Lansing or Washington and are swallowed by the swamp. But here and across the state and across the nation, grassroots candidates are stepping up to storm the capitols and work together to bring sanity and American ideals back, to represent our neighbors.
  • The covid pandemic revealed how rapidly government can turn a republic into a totalitarian state. Our current legislature did not stop illegal actions in regard to our health, our elections, our ability to work, operate our businesses and live our lives. Your grassroots candidates at the county, state and federal levels will work together to end this tyranny and restore our constitutional rights and freedoms. That is why I am endorsed by the Michigan Health Choice Alliance.
  • This is a critical time for all life. Farmers are warning us of upcoming food shortages and costs rising up to an additional $1000/mo. This will mean hunger in our nation and famine in others. I have been sharing a plan for neighborhoods to come together now to help provide food and for state, county, city and township governments to allow farmers to sell their crops on public lands to bring the food to people unable to afford gas or food. The second issue is the returning of abortion to the state. I support our prolife state law. Let's make saving lives on all fronts a priority.
1.The right to life, guaranteed in our founding documents.

2. The lawlessness and anti-police officer hatred fomented by Marxists and their leaders in the Democratic Party. I have a plan to turn this around.
3. The corruption of our education system which is teaching socialism and anti-American sentiment with distorted and false history, Also, their work to separate kids from their parents so that they can denigrate their parent's values and authority. The schools have become the indoctrination camps for the LGBT and Marxist movements. My plan for the schools includes the ending of school count day because the money will follow the student. The Supreme Court has just affirmed that the state cannot tell you where you can or cannot take your school voucher. We have great candidates running for the State Board of Education that will help us return government schools to the public schools they are supposed to be.

4. Every one of us is affected by regulations that come out of all levels of government. They are written by career employees who are not elected. They seem to spend their time thinking up new regulations until you can't live without violating some unknown regulation. We need to audit each department's regulations in regard to purpose, fulfillment of purpose and unintended consequences. We need to eliminate as many as possible and require the legislature to approve the regulations kept and all future regulations before they can take effect.
President George Washington. He placed his nation above himself, selflessly serving and uniquely giving up power for the good of his country. He supplied his troops from his own resources and never gave up. Facing overwhelming odds and what logic easily said was impossible, he persevered to victory. His relationship with the Lord was his foundation and guide in all that he did and the source of the many miracles that he experienced.
The Bible

John Adams by David McCullough

Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxes
Their Character. Virtue, honesty, courage, perseverance, humility, integrity, respectfulness, and loyalty to their voters, the state and the nation.
Integrity, courage, perseverance and honesty.
Know their states constitution, its history, its struggles, its people, its vision and why you were elected. Then make the focus of your time and energy to spend the next 2 years to bring the people closer to their vision.
The restoration of freedom in our state and nation.
The assassination of President John F. Kennedy. 12 years old.
Holmes Hall, MSU Cafeteria 1 year
As someone who is always reading 3 or 4 books at a time, many of them historical novels or biographies, there is only one that I read daily, year after year. That is the love letter from God, otherwise known as the Bible.
The invisible man.
The Battle of New Orleans
Trying to meet the needs of my children as a single mother, not receiving child support, while working as a police officer with 2 part time security jobs to help cover the cost of childcare. Sleep was rare.
Respect with a shared goal to represent the people who elected them.
Restoring our energy production.

Supporting agriculture by requiring that farmers from each field be included in policy decisions and regulations.

Restoring our schools from near last in the nation to top schools in preparing our students for entering the work force, technical school or university. We also need to restore civics and authentic history to our curriculum, We must remove CRT and replace the 1619 project with the 1776 project.
As someone who worked to get legislation through, it is frustrating to have it pass in one side and die before the second addresses it. On the other hand, the founders were wise in establishing the peoples house to speak for the people, but requiring a Senate, more insulated from the next election, to spend time to look beyond the emotions of the moment and seek the wisdom or pitfalls of the pending legislation.
It can be. However, generally the focus usually becomes ensuring that their office is safe from challenge. It is very difficult to succeed against an incumbent. The saving grace is term limits. However, in keeping track of new representatives I have found that it was not uncommon for a term-limited legislator to be replaced by a spouse. The original intent was for citizens to stand up and take their turn in serving. I think this is the best way of overcoming the entrenched power of political families.
It is necessary. We all have to work together to accomplish anything for the state. Building relationships will help us to communicate as friends or at least respected colleagues. This will help us to listen with respect and work together for solutions.
The house by population. The senate by geography/square miles.
Elections & Ethics

State Police
Health Policy
Education

Agriculture
US Senator Marsha Blackburn
No.
I ran into a former Canadian who was struggling with our Medicare system. She was at her wits end trying to get help to deal with the exceptions she was encountering that required her to pay a large percentage of her income in monthly payments to the system for coverage. I was thankful that I could direct her to Kent Counties Senior Services where she can speak to Social Security and Medicare specialist to help her.
Moses, Jesus and an old man were golfing. Moses hit off the tee and his ball headed for the pond. He held up his club, the water parted and the ball bounced off the bottom and rolled up onto the green.
Jesus came next. He ball also headed for the pond. It hit the water and rolled across the top and onto the green. Next came the old man. His ball dropped right into the center of the pond. Suddenly a fish leaped out of the pond with the ball in its mouth. A bird flew by, grabbed the ball and dropped it into the cup. "Nice shot dad," Jesus said.
Emergency powers are dangerous in the wrong hands. Because there are times when they are necessary as in red alerts for road closures due to blizzards or statewide damage from storms, civil defense. The powers need to be defined as strictly as possible and be very temporary with legislature approval for any extension and legislature veto power.
Not on values and beliefs. The details in accomplish the goals must be hammered out with the input of others allowing for the best ideas to surfac.

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    1. ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on July 6, 2022


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