MIDLAND DAILY NEWS GARY GLENN, R • Glenn today will attend Public Servants Day at Calvary Baptist Church, an annual recognition and thanks to local elected officials and candidates for public office. • Glenn discussed energy policy and other business-related issues with executives of The Dow Chemical Corp. As a result of the discussions, Glenn will ask to serve on the House Energy Committee if elected. A veteran, Glenn has also committed to area veterans that he’ll request to serve on the House Veterans Affairs Committee. • Glenn met with former state Rep. Jim McNutt to discuss funding options for road repair and the overall legislative process in Lansing. • Glenn spoke and answered questions with local residents during an open house at the home of Larry and Ginny Schuelke in Homer Township. • Glenn held a successful fundraiser at the home of Kevin and Krista Blaser in Midland featuring comments by Sen. John Moolenaar and Rep. Jim Stamas, both R-Midland. Attorney General Bill Schuette, Congressman Dave Camp, and Rep. Kevin Cotter, R-Mt. Pleasant, were also sponsors of the event. • Glenn attended a showing in Sanford of the documentary “Hogwash,” sponsored by We the People of Mid-Michigan, a local TEA Party group, about northern Michigan pig farmer Mark Baker’s ongoing two-year fight to stop the Department of Natural Resources from putting him and his family farm out of business over DNR’s erroneous classification of his pig herd as “feral.” If elected, Glenn will support a state constitutional amendment to restore the legislature’s oversight and ability to overrule regulations issued by state executive branch agencies. • Glenn, a former staffer of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a free market think tank located in Midland, presented opening remarks at Northwood University inaugural Freedom Week. According to the university’s website, “America is the only country in history founded on sound Biblical principles and authentic liberal ideas of individual rights and personal responsibility. Two dozen of the world’s leading conservative and libertarian institutions, economists, entrepreneurs, and political philosophers will participate” in the week-long symposium. Glenn, a founding board member of the Michigan Freedom to Work coalition in 2011, focused on the state’s recent enactment of Freedom to Work legislation. • Glenn and his Democratic opponent recorded television interviews with Midland Community Television that allows voters a rare opportunity to hear the candidates’ views side by side. The 22-minute program is airing on Charter Communications cable channel 191. Go to cityofmidlandmi.gov/474/Schedule for the remaining broadcast schedule today and Monday. • Glenn is planning to speak today about 5 p.m. at the Republican Comeback State Bus Tour at the Midland Victory Center, 113 East Ashman St. • A similar 30-minute interview of the two candidates by WCMU-TV at Central Michigan University can be viewed online at goo.gl/nmIj7C For more information about Glenn’s campaign: GaryGlenn.US.
Posted on: Sun, 02 Nov 2014 19:33:21 +0000
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