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Rich McClain
Rich McClain (Libertarian Party) ran for election to the Michigan House of Representatives to represent District 87. He lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
McClain completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Rich McClain was born in Holyoke, Massachusetts. McClain's career experience includes working as an electronics technician. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1982 to 1984. McClain earned a degree from the Business Education Institute in 1985 and a degree from Allstate Institute of Technology in 1997.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Michigan House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
General election for Michigan House of Representatives District 87
Incumbent Will Snyder defeated Chip Chipman and Rich McClain in the general election for Michigan House of Representatives District 87 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Will Snyder (D) | 59.3 | 24,679 |
 | Chip Chipman (R) | 37.8 | 15,742 | |
 | Rich McClain (L)  | 2.8 | 1,173 | |
| Total votes: 41,594 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 87
Incumbent Will Snyder advanced from the Democratic primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 87 on August 6, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Will Snyder | 100.0 | 7,495 |
| Total votes: 7,495 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 87
Chip Chipman advanced from the Republican primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 87 on August 6, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Chip Chipman | 100.0 | 3,276 |
| Total votes: 3,276 | |||
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Libertarian convention
Libertarian convention for Michigan House of Representatives District 87
Rich McClain advanced from the Libertarian convention for Michigan House of Representatives District 87 on July 20, 2024.
Candidate | ||
| ✔ | | Rich McClain (L) |
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Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for McClain in this election.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Rich McClain completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by McClain'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 transplant to Muskegon from Westfield, Ma. The only thing I miss from there is the pizza. I love being a Michigander, we have it so good here in Muskegon. My education is 900 hours of training at a vocational college with a 600hr/300hr split between Electronics Technician/ Computer Technician. I am a veteran of the US Navy. (Short timer, and it was a loooong time ago)
I am kind of retired, which means my wife owns her own business and puts me to work. (I don't mind). I am, however, looking forward to being more active in and for the community.- I would like to provoke our legislature to support a constitutional amendment I affectionately call "The Fiscal Responsibility Amendment". This amendment ends the federal governments' ability to tax individuals and businesses. The federal government would still be able to charge tariffs to imports and they would get fifteen percent of all taxes collected from each state. They would be prohibited from subsidizing industry, providing exemptions to states based on favored programs or industries, and prohibited from providing exceptions to favored states from paying their fifteen percent. Also, they would have to balance the budget year over year.
- I agree with the Libertarian party that all education should be private education, but since that is not going to happen soon we need to change our public education system to at least approximate private education. This means training our children on how to use money properly, balance a checkbook, how to leverage debt and when it is appropriate to do so, credit card usage and how to avoid credit card pitfalls that are so prevalent in our society. Physical training along with physical education to promote work ethic and proper training in maintaining heath/ wellness. Raise the standard of education generally, so that our public school students aren't so far behind their private school counter-parts.
- We have mandatory permit laws that turn our Michigan into a state run Home Owners Association. This set of laws needs to be repealed and any permitting needs to be voluntary making private property privately owned again. If people want a HOA they can form one on their own. The state should not be in the HOA business.
I would also like to protect and promote family farming without interfering with corporate farming.
Facing reality when dealing with a particular subject. For example, there those who would like to ban abortion. That is not happening here in Michigan - and I am against it - so there is a certain reality that requires the acceptance of abortion and a possible resolution of restricting abortion to within a set time period. (Similar to Florida) There can be a moderate solution that uses good sense. Rather than the two extremes going back and forth.
1. See the Fiscal Responsibility Amendment pass which I believe would help our federal government get out of empire thinking and building.
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See also
2024 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on October 9, 2024
