Insider Intelligence

This week, Governor Rick Snyder announced the appointment of Brock Swartzle to the Michigan Court of Appeals, 4th District.  Mr. Swartzle currently serves as Chief of Staff and General Counsel to the Michigan House of Representatives.  Prior to joining the House, he was a partner at Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP.  Mr. Swartzle also […]

This week, Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein filed a request for a recount of the results of the 2016 presidential election in Michigan.  On her website, Ms. Stein states the recount is needed to verify the results of the machine-counted vote totals in the state.  According to a press release from Secretary of State […]

On Thursday, Representative Lisa Lyons (R-Alto) introduced legislation requiring a candidate requesting a statewide recount for an election that resulted in more than a 5% difference between the winning candidate and the petition of the recount to pay 100% of the estimated cost of the recount.  Under current law, a person requesting a recount is […]

Last week, Representative Lauren Plawecki (D-Dearborn Heights) took the oath of office to begin serving in the House of Representatives.  She represents the 11th House District, which includes Garden City and Inkster and portions of Dearborn Heights, Livonia, and Westland.  Representative Plawecki fills the seat vacated by her mother, former Representative Julie Plawecki, who passed […]

The House and Senate are scheduled to hold session Tuesday – Thursday.

Governor Snyder announced his eighteen appointments to the Public Health Advisory Commission. State Senator-elect Ian Conyers (D-Detroit) will take the oath of office this week, bringing the Senate back to thirty-eight members elected and serving. On Monday, the Board of State Canvassers is meeting to officially certify election results from November. Economic forecasts presented last […]

Last Friday, Governor Rick Snyder announced the appointments of eighteen members to the Public Health Advisory Commission.  The twenty-four-member commission will complete an assessment of the current public health service delivery system in Michigan, at both the state and local level.  Including a review of: The organization of public health functions within and across the […]

Next week, State Senator-elect Ian Conyers (D-Detroit) will take the oath of office.  He won the special election earlier this month to complete the term of former Senator Virgil Smith (D-Detroit) who resigned from office in April.  He will need to run for a full, four-year term in November 2018.  “Congratulations to Senator-elect Conyers.  He […]