Michigan State Senate District 25 candidate surveys, 2022
This article shows responses from candidates in the 2022 election for Michigan State Senate District 25 who completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey.
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Candidates and election results
General election
General election for Michigan State Senate District 25
Incumbent Dan Lauwers defeated Bert Van Dyke in the general election for Michigan State Senate District 25 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Dan Lauwers (R) | 66.8 | 78,193 |
 | Bert Van Dyke (D)  | 33.2 | 38,811 | |
| Total votes: 117,004 | |||
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Bert Van Dyke (D)
Environment: Climate change is real, serious, and costly. We need to transition toward the energy sources of the future. We need to protect our water, soil, and air from pollution and exploitation. Michigan already has over 7,000 toxic clean up sites and we must not allow even one more. Line 5 must be removed from the straits. The most powerful way to clean up environmental disasters is to prevent them from occurring.
People: Everyone deserves a seat at the table and this will be a fully inclusive campaign. Consensus and inclusion instead of division and hostility. Social, racial, and economic justice. Freedom from government interference in your medical or family decisions. Freedom to live your life without barriers or discrimination.
Bert Van Dyke (D)
I believe public education is the foundation of democracy. It is a promise to accept and engage every child and provide them a fair starting point in life, regardless of background or financial situation.
It is the responsibility of a society to provide education for all children.
Education is the development of the individual through experiences, relationships, agency, content, and pursuit of interests.
It is the responsibility of the educated individual to intellectually and empathetically participate in a civil society.
Public education must be improved to the promise is kept for every child, and so every child can exercise agency as a participant in their development.
Public education must be strengthened against the relentless attacks from oligarchs and agents who seek to dismantle our institutions for the purpose of profit, power, and exploitation. I encourage citizens to push back against those who seek to disrupt our communities. Refuse to accept their lies about so-called choice and their empty allegations against teachers and curriculums. Students already have real choice. We don't need to put public funding into unaccountable private or religious hands and we don't need to provide even more preferential tax breaks to the wealthy. These are schemes to steal funding from our local schools.
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