Liam Richichi (East Lansing City Council, Michigan, candidate 2025)
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Liam Richichi ran for election to the East Lansing City Council in Michigan. He was on the ballot in the general election on November 4, 2025.
Richichi completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. Click here to read the survey answers.
[1]Biography
Liam Richichi provided the following biographical information via Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey on September 30, 2025:
- High school: Northville High School
- Bachelor's: Michigan State University
- Gender: Male
- Profession: Government
- Incumbent officeholder: No
- Campaign slogan: Balancing the books, building the future.
- Campaign website
- Campaign endorsements
Elections
General election
General election for East Lansing City Council (2 seats)
The following candidates ran in the general election for East Lansing City Council on November 4, 2025.
Candidate | ||
| Adam DeLay (Nonpartisan) | ||
| Kath Edsall (Nonpartisan) | ||
| Chuck Grigsby (Nonpartisan) | ||
| Joshua Ramirez-Roberts (Nonpartisan) | ||
 | Liam Richichi (Nonpartisan)  | |
| Steven Whelan (Nonpartisan) | ||
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Election results
Endorsements
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Campaign themes
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Liam Richichi completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Richichi'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’m a graduate of James Madison College at Michigan State University, with a degree in Political Theory and minors in Business and Organizational Management.
Originally from Northville, Michigan, I’ve been active in local organizing for years. In high school I led my school's Democratic club and was the Chair of the Michigan High School Democrats. I have worked on campaigns up and down the ballot and in our state government. During college, I served as president of the MSU College Democrats, growing the club to be the largest chapter of college Democrats in the nation, and I currently work for State Representative Jason Morgan.- Rebuild trust in our local government. That means getting back to an energetic, responsive city council and actively listens to the community, not just expensive consultants that blow holes in the side of our budget. How many families and parents have raised concerns or complained to the city about traffic safety, lack of stop signs and enforcement, and unsafe crosswalks? How often are those concerns heard and responded to? Almost never. It took folks living on Kensington road years of activism, sleepless nights, and near harmful accidents. They just got their signage. This is not a sign of responsive government.
- Fix our budget. That does NOT mean continuing to raise taxes on hard-working families and seniors who are feeling the crunch from the cost of living crisis. It means finding ways to increase revenues into our city without asking folks for more. Building new housing and commercial opportunities in our downtown and along transit corridors, expanding our tax base and easing the burden on individual tax-payers.
- Housing is another key priority of mine. Many young families cannot afford to live here. They move to the East side of Lansing and patronize Lansing businesses instead of those in East Lansing. According to a 2025 housing study just conducted, and as a recent MSU grad, I can tell you there is a shortage in housing for students. Want to know an easy solution to this? Build smart, sustainable housing options and bring young folks out of single family homes that are being used as rentals. Let’s work together to remodel these homes and turn them back into single-family housing while expanding our tax base. All of this means: more money in your pocket, more diversity in our community, and better investments in public safety and services.
Mayor Pro Tem Kerry Ebersole Singh
Lansing Mayor Andy Schor
State Rep. Julie Brixie
State Rep. Penelope Tsernoglou
Ingham County Clerk Barb Byrum
Councilmember Dana Watson
County Commissioner Irene Cahill
MSU Trustee Rebecca Bahar-Cook
Former East Lansing Mayor Aaron Stephens
Chair of the Parks and Rec Advisory Commission Sarah Reckhow
East Lansing School Board President Chris Martin
Member of the Human Rights Commission Rebecca Kasen
Former East Lansing Clerk Jen Schuster
Chesterfield Hills Resident & Parent Brianna Egan
MSU College Democrats
College Democrats of America
LGBTQ+ Victory Fund
IBEW Local 665
LiUNA Local 499
Greater Lansing Association of REALTORS
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See also
2025 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ "Email with Michigan Secretary of State," September 11, 2025
