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Patrick Wood (Michigan)

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Patrick Wood

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Democratic Party

Elections and appointments
Last election

November 3, 2020

Personal
Birthplace
Lansing, Mich.
Profession
Entrepreneur

Patrick Wood (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Michigan House of Representatives to represent District 84. He lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.

Wood completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Patrick Wood was born in Lansing, Michigan. His professional experience includes working as an entrepreneur, milkman, car salesman, mortgage loan officer, pearl diver, and business owner. He is affiliated with the Millington DDA.[1]

Elections

2020

See also: Michigan House of Representatives elections, 2020

General election

General election for Michigan House of Representatives District 84

Incumbent Phil Green defeated Patrick Wood in the general election for Michigan House of Representatives District 84 on November 3, 2020.

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Phil Green (R)
 
72.2
 
33,473
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Patrick Wood (D) Candidate Connection
 
27.8
 
12,913

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Total votes: 46,386
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 84

Patrick Wood defeated Douglas Marker in the Democratic primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 84 on August 4, 2020.

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61.7
 
3,016
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Douglas Marker
 
38.3
 
1,869

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

Total votes: 4,885
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 84

Incumbent Phil Green advanced from the Republican primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 84 on August 4, 2020.

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Phil Green
 
100.0
 
13,479

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Total votes: 13,479
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Campaign themes

2020

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Candidate Connection

Patrick Wood completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Wood'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 husband a father four and a business man in my community, been on my local DDA for over a decade.
  • Education is the key to every community
  • Mom and Pop shops like my own are the true engine to our economy.
  • Family farms grow more than food. To lose the family farm is the loss of a culture.
Education. We have to properly fund and give our children and young adults the best education possible. Women's reproductive rights. From suffrage to Equal rights to credit. Women make .75 cents to the dollar of men in the 84th district. We have politicians that want to put women in prison for up to 6 yrs. for their own personal decisions. Single mothers have a poverty rate of 45%. Enough is enough, Small business. You want to see what the American dream is? Find a small business owner. Support your local business and tell the dollar shop to wait in line. Adoption and foster care as an adoptee as well as my spouse I believe that taking care of the most vulnerable of us is truely the work of the best of us. Renewable energy. We can do better and we must do better. Climate change is real it is here and it is our mountain to climb. Let's show the future that we can overcome and thrive. Did I say Education. Education and I mean a good education brings the things the 84th district needs.... people. We can flourish in the 84th by embracing the diversity, economic growth and community the educational system brings. Pandemic reconstruction. We are in for a tough road and our lives have changed. When we come together we succeed. Covid 19 is real and it will touch all of us. Together we stand, divided we fall. Mostly though the one public policy I hold closest is The Constitution. It is not perfect, but it's getting there.
My Uncle Skip. He was a good man who was kind to people. Worked hard and became a succesful businessman. Get a plan work a plan. That is what he would tell me. I am not writing this had he not been part of my life. We don't all come from the easy road. I didn't and that didn't matter to him. He let me screw up, Showed me the direction I should go. Let me screw up and showed me again and again. He never gave up on me. Though he could have plenty of times, he never did. Uncle Skip had a family of his own and they all treated me just like he did. That's because they had him too. You see that is what real leadership is. Taking the people you have and helping to pave the paths they will take in their lives. Knowing the path they take is their own. I hope anyone who reads this has an Uncle like mine but if you didn't, do your best to be the person that lets some kid know it will be alright, you will get through it and you will overcome your obstacles. that way when someone looks back at the memory of you, it's worth more than the weight of gold. Thanks Uncle Skip see ya at the waters edge.
The Grapes of Wrath, 1937 sit-down strike, The Stand, My Candidate facebook page, The Constitution,
I don't know I guess it depends on the individual. I mean everyone has different personalities. So some things seem to be strengths while others come off as weaknesses. Best practice would be to do your best and keep becoming better as you go. Politics seem to be like raising children. We should all know how to do it, then there it is and all bets are off.
I carry the constitution around in my back pocket. It is what qualifies me and is what will make me successful as a officeholder.
Represent the people that sent you. Be responsible for the task at hand. Stay connected to those same people.
I left it better than I got it.
Nixon resigning from office. Seven.
Car transport about 6 years.
The Grapes of Wrath
Huck Finn
Promised Land
Life. It's has also been my greatest joy.
Right at this moment not very much. Until we decide that our votes and trust should go to people who represent us as citizens and not corporations and lobbyist. We have become a government of two parties instead of chambers of government working for the betterment of our society. The theory that if you are them you are not us cannot continue to stand. The house and senate need to work as it was designed. Before we talk about the differences we need to figure out why that is all that now matters.
No, however just like a mechanic, a doctor, a delivery driver or anyone who ties up their boots and goes to work, you can get better at what your hands ply. If not you get fired and move onto what you are good at. It's one thing to be good at politics. It's another to be good at governance. Keep good people, send the others out into the marketplace.
Flight. People are leaving and nobody is coming to replace them. In the 84th district we have a 94% white population. we have lost over 6000 to other opportunities. Their children are leaving and our communities are struggling to find an answer. Until we embrace diversity it will continue to contract. Our signs should say open for business, our schools should say open to learn, to people who would love to live in our rural communities. They may not look just the same, they may not listen to the same music, they may even have different ideas about how a place should look. That's o.k. because from my view we could use some updating.
Tension just tight enough to make both uncomfortable.
A non partisan commitee that will make a fair district for every citizen. Our voices have been muffled by gerrymandering and this has to end. Put the power of government back into the hands of who should hold it. The citizens of the State of Michigan.
Not necessarily. Maybe Committees I could cross the Isle and get a different point of view. A committee that would be challenging yet rewarding to the 84th district.
Sure. In Education, womens rights, Small business reforms things that make an impact on the people I represent.
I put yard signs in for Dale Kildee and Carl Levin was a kid. However it would be more in line with the mayor of my community, Gailan Reinert. I have watched him make impact upon positive impact in our Village. To top it off he has done it for 30 years. It's not the size of your office it's the impact it possesses.
I'm interested in running for the 84th district State Representative.
Bob Gifford. He was in an accident that left him with a broken body. He however was not broken and left a mark on me that I will carry for the rest of my life. I don't think the man understood the word can't. Bob was one of the owners of my local tractor dealership CMR tractors. let me put it this way. If you ever met Bob Gifford you would never say can't again. RIP my friend.

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  1. ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on September 16, 2020


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