William Alexander (Michigan)

From Ballotpedia
Jump to: navigation, search
BP-Initials-UPDATED.png
This page was current at the end of the individual's last campaign covered by Ballotpedia. Please contact us with any updates.
William Alexander
Image of William Alexander
Elections and appointments
Last election

August 2, 2022

Contact

William Alexander (Republican Party) ran for election to the Michigan House of Representatives to represent District 82. He lost in the Republican primary on August 2, 2022.

Alexander completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.

Elections

2022

See also: Michigan House of Representatives elections, 2022

General election

General election for Michigan House of Representatives District 82

Kristian Grant defeated Ryan Malinoski and Gerard Akkerhuis in the general election for Michigan House of Representatives District 82 on November 8, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Kristian Grant
Kristian Grant (D) Candidate Connection
 
74.0
 
23,976
Ryan Malinoski (R)
 
24.5
 
7,945
Gerard Akkerhuis (G)
 
1.5
 
475

Total votes: 32,396
Candidate Connection = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey.
If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey.

Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team.

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 82

Kristian Grant defeated Robert Womack and Salim Al-Shatel in the Democratic primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 82 on August 2, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Kristian Grant
Kristian Grant Candidate Connection
 
43.1
 
3,922
Robert Womack
 
42.5
 
3,870
Image of Salim Al-Shatel
Salim Al-Shatel
 
14.4
 
1,314

Total votes: 9,106
Candidate Connection = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey.
If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey.

Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team.

Republican primary election

Republican primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 82

Ryan Malinoski defeated William Alexander in the Republican primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 82 on August 2, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
Ryan Malinoski
 
63.4
 
2,681
Image of William Alexander
William Alexander Candidate Connection
 
36.6
 
1,547

Total votes: 4,228
Candidate Connection = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey.
If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey.

Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team.

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Green convention

Green convention for Michigan House of Representatives District 82

Gerard Akkerhuis advanced from the Green convention for Michigan House of Representatives District 82 on April 23, 2022.


Candidate Connection = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey.
If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey.

Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team.

Campaign finance

Campaign themes

2022

Ballotpedia survey responses

See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection

Candidate Connection

William Alexander completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Alexander's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

Expand all | Collapse all

I am a Michigan native, born and raised in Whitehall, not far from Grand Rapids in Muskegon County. I have been a Grand Rapids resident, home owner and entrepreneur for 28 years and have an accute knowledge of the issues, challenges and successes resulting from policies initiated pertaining to the Grand Rapids community. Michigan's 82nd House District encompasses a large portion of the city of Grand Rapids, from 44th St. north to Fulton St. and from East Paris Ave. west to US 131.
     I am an American citizen with decades of real-world workforce experience, who instead of accepting the deplorable abuses coming from government, seeks to jump into the proverbial "Lions' Den" and contribute to changing the situation, rather than watch things deteriorate, powerless to elicit change.
As an advocate of preserving our Constitutionally protected rights as Americans, you could say that I'm a Civil Rights Activist, promoting and defending our civil rights which are so clearly articulated in The U.S. Constitution.
  • 1st AMENDMENT: Lately, the assault on our First Amendment right to free speech, by so-called "Big Tech", mainly social media, is unacceptable and will be met by my resistance until there is some kind of legislative action to restore this right. Another issue regarding the First Amendment is how the power hungry in Lansing and D.C. violated our First Amendment right to peaceably assemble to celebrate, rally, or protest our grievances, and our right to the free exercise of assembling for religious expression during the Covid-19 debacle. I will be proactive regarding legislation that will prevent dictators from censoring free speech and imposing penalties for public assembly and for hosting and participating in religious gatherings.
  • 2nd AMENDMENT: I will be persistent, pragmatic and unrelenting in protecting, preserving and respecting our Second Amendment Right to keep and bear arms. I am a nearly life-long gun owner and Second Amendment rights advocate. Communities are safer where the citizens' constitutional rights to preserve and protect their property and being are defended by those who are entrusted to properly govern. "The Constitution shall never be construed...to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms." –Samuel Adams The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is not at all hard to understand and interpret: “A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, (and) the r
  • 5th & 14th AMENDMENT: Medical Privacy = Medical Freedom. Medical Privacy and thus medical freedom are also issues which I will champion, as the Right to Privacy is clearly enumerated in both the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of our Constitution and thus entail our right to medical freedom. This Constitutionally protected privacy would therefore definitely prevent any regime such as the CDC, the WHO and even our own Federal and State governments from "mandating" the administration of any drug, vaccination, operation or procedure. I will initiate, author, support and vote for any and all legislation introduced which will outlaw any intrusion into our medical privacy, which is confidential and reserved only for us citizens and our chos
*The Right To Life
 From the moment of conception, each person is assigned a unique DNA. Along with that DNA, dignity is assigned to each individual, and our founders echoed this in the Declaration of Independence when they stated that “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men (mankind)- are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are LIFE, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” Family background, nationality or ethnicity do not determine dignity. Dignity is for all, is non-negotiable and shall not be infringed by any government or medical entity. You are exactly who you were meant to be. You are special and unique. I will support and implement state legislation and citizen initiatives that will uphold and protect the life of unborn children and the legislation central to that protection, which will serve as a safeguard and proponent of protecting precious human life. 
  • Vote Fraud is a CRIME
I will support legislation that would require voters to present identification to ensure "one person, one vote". We must hold accountable, those in power who intentionally muck up the voting procedure by mass mailing of ballots, where many may receive multiple ballots delivered to their address, as we witnessed during the Covid-19 debacle. Those responsible for the dirty deed of intentionally "cancelling out" legitimate votes using these tactics, must face indictment, trial and imprisonment if found guilty

Note: Ballotpedia reserves the right to edit Candidate Connection survey responses. Any edits made by Ballotpedia will be clearly marked with [brackets] for the public. If the candidate disagrees with an edit, he or she may request the full removal of the survey response from Ballotpedia.org. Ballotpedia does not edit or correct typographical errors unless the candidate's campaign requests it.

See also


External links

Footnotes


Current members of the Michigan House of Representatives
Leadership
Speaker of the House:Matt Hall
Minority Leader:Ranjeev Puri
Representatives
District 1
District 2
District 3
District 4
District 5
District 6
District 7
District 8
District 9
District 10
District 11
District 12
District 13
Mai Xiong (D)
District 14
District 15
District 16
District 17
District 18
District 19
District 20
District 21
District 22
District 23
District 24
District 25
District 26
District 27
District 28
District 29
District 30
District 31
District 32
District 33
District 34
District 35
District 36
District 37
District 38
District 39
District 40
District 41
District 42
Matt Hall (R)
District 43
District 44
District 45
District 46
District 47
District 48
District 49
District 50
District 51
District 52
District 53
District 54
District 55
District 56
District 57
District 58
District 59
District 60
District 61
District 62
District 63
District 64
District 65
District 66
District 67
District 68
District 69
District 70
District 71
District 72
District 73
District 74
Kara Hope (D)
District 75
District 76
District 77
District 78
District 79
District 80
District 81
District 82
District 83
District 84
District 85
District 86
District 87
District 88
District 89
District 90
District 91
District 92
District 93
Tim Kelly (R)
District 94
District 95
District 96
District 97
District 98
District 99
District 100
Tom Kunse (R)
District 101
District 102
District 103
District 104
John Roth (R)
District 105
District 106
District 107
District 108
District 109
District 110
Republican Party (58)
Democratic Party (52)