Richard Steenland
Richard Steenland (Democratic Party) was a member of the Michigan House of Representatives, representing District 22. He assumed office on January 1, 2021. He left office on January 1, 2023.
Steenland (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Michigan House of Representatives to represent District 13. He lost in the Democratic primary on August 6, 2024.
Biography
Richard Steenland lives in Roseville, Michigan. Steenland graduated from Carl Brablec High School in 1979.[1] He earned an associate degree from Macomb Community College in 1992. Steenland has served with the Knights of Columbus (Father Solanus Casey #3797), Roseville Optimist Club, Roseville Scholarship Foundation, Roseville Goodfellows, and Macomb Club.[2]
Committee assignments
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2021-2022
Steenland was assigned to the following committees:
- Insurance Committee
- Military, Veterans and Homeland Security Committee (decommissioned)
- House Regulatory Reform Committee
Sponsored legislation
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Elections
2024
See also: Michigan House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
General election for Michigan House of Representatives District 13
Incumbent Mai Xiong defeated Ronald A. Singer and Hashim Malik Bakari in the general election for Michigan House of Representatives District 13 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Mai Xiong (D) | 50.8 | 24,911 |
![]() | Ronald A. Singer (R) | 46.3 | 22,673 | |
Hashim Malik Bakari (Working Class Party) | 2.9 | 1,430 |
Total votes: 49,014 | ||||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 13
Incumbent Mai Xiong defeated Richard Steenland and Patricia Johnson Singleton in the Democratic primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 13 on August 6, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Mai Xiong | 71.4 | 5,996 |
![]() | Richard Steenland | 19.1 | 1,600 | |
![]() | Patricia Johnson Singleton | 9.5 | 798 |
Total votes: 8,394 | ||||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 13
Ronald A. Singer defeated Mark T. Foster, John Sheets, and Jerrie Bowl Bilello in the Republican primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 13 on August 6, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Ronald A. Singer | 38.2 | 1,848 |
Mark T. Foster | 32.2 | 1,555 | ||
![]() | John Sheets | 20.0 | 967 | |
Jerrie Bowl Bilello ![]() | 9.6 | 465 |
Total votes: 4,835 | ||||
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Working Class Party convention
Working Class Party convention for Michigan House of Representatives District 13
Hashim Malik Bakari advanced from the Working Class Party convention for Michigan House of Representatives District 13 on June 23, 2024.
Candidate | ||
✔ | Hashim Malik Bakari (Working Class Party) |
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Steenland in this election.
2022
See also: Michigan House of Representatives elections, 2022
General election
General election for Michigan House of Representatives District 12
Kimberly L. Edwards defeated Diane Saber and Gregory Creswell in the general election for Michigan House of Representatives District 12 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Kimberly L. Edwards (D) | 70.4 | 20,962 |
![]() | Diane Saber (R) ![]() | 27.4 | 8,159 | |
![]() | Gregory Creswell (L) ![]() | 2.2 | 643 |
Total votes: 29,764 | ||||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 12
Kimberly L. Edwards defeated incumbent Richard Steenland in the Democratic primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 12 on August 2, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Kimberly L. Edwards | 51.9 | 3,862 |
![]() | Richard Steenland | 48.1 | 3,575 |
Total votes: 7,437 | ||||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 12
Diane Saber advanced from the Republican primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 12 on August 2, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Diane Saber ![]() | 100.0 | 3,189 |
Total votes: 3,189 | ||||
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Libertarian convention
Libertarian convention for Michigan House of Representatives District 12
Gregory Creswell advanced from the Libertarian convention for Michigan House of Representatives District 12 on July 10, 2022.
Candidate | ||
✔ | ![]() | Gregory Creswell (L) ![]() |
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Campaign finance
2020
See also: Michigan House of Representatives elections, 2020
General election
General election for Michigan House of Representatives District 22
Richard Steenland defeated Steven Warner in the general election for Michigan House of Representatives District 22 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Richard Steenland (D) ![]() | 59.9 | 24,954 |
Steven Warner (R) | 40.1 | 16,701 |
Total votes: 41,655 | ||||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 22
Richard Steenland defeated Ryan M. Nelson and Michael James Anderson in the Democratic primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 22 on August 4, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Richard Steenland ![]() | 51.3 | 4,557 |
![]() | Ryan M. Nelson ![]() | 26.2 | 2,327 | |
Michael James Anderson ![]() | 22.5 | 1,996 |
Total votes: 8,880 | ||||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 22
Steven Warner defeated Jeff Bonnell in the Republican primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 22 on August 4, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | Steven Warner | 51.1 | 2,667 | |
Jeff Bonnell | 48.9 | 2,548 |
Total votes: 5,215 | ||||
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
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Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Richard Steenland did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.
2022
Richard Steenland did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
2020
Richard Steenland completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Steenland's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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|- Experienced: Our state is facing difficult times ahead after we get thru this pandemic. We will need experienced leadership and someone with a track record of working collaboratively with others to help in Michigan's recovery. Over the years, I have worked with my fellow City Council members, City Administration, and public sector employee unions to approve collectively bargained contracts, balance a budget and provide our residents with quality city services at an affordable and reasonable rate. I have extensive experience in local government, the court system, the administration of elections, labor relations (as a retired member of UAW Local 889), as well as in municipal retirement systems.
- Effective: Successfully ran over 30 elections as City Clerk, including four presidential elections, overseen the hiring process of over 200 police and fire applicants, trained over 275 new election inspectors, implemented new election equipment, streamlined the licensing process for businesses in the city, updated and implemented rapid response of FOIA procedures and modernized and streamlined the clerk's office to go as paperless as possible.
- Community Orientated Priorities: If elected, I will advocate for increasing the access and the affordability of health care, strengthening our communities through improving educational opportunities, investing in our communities and infrastructure, and creating a good environment for the creation of great paying jobs
1.Lack of proper funding levels for our public schools including very little consideration over the significant costs of educating special needs students, "at-risk" students and English Language Learners. To be successful, we must invest in our public schools.
2. The disinvestment of our educators. Through legislation and misguided policies, we have made it difficult and unwelcoming for our best and brightest to become teachers and to keep them in the profession. Low pay, increased hours, increased health care costs and the loss of many other benefits have had a significant impact on the morale of educators and support staff. State mandating testing forces teachers to teach to the test to maintain their jobs and stifles their creativity and innovation.
3.The assault on teacher's unions. Over the years, the Legislature has enacted many policies that have made it difficult for teachers to have more input in educating our students. Right to work has sought to reduce the strength of teachers and the middle/working class to collective negotiate for better wages, benefits, retirements and more input into working conditions. We must restore full collective bargaining rights to our educators and work with them to come up with better policies.
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Campaign finance summary
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2022
In 2022, the Michigan State Legislature was in session from January 12 to December 28.
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2021
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In 2021, the Michigan State Legislature was in session from January 13 to December 31.
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Michigan House Democrats, "Meet Rep. Steenland," accessed January 19, 2021
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on June 25, 2020
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Preceded by John Chirkun (D) |
Michigan House of Representatives District 22 2021-2023 |
Succeeded by Matt Koleszar (D) |