Michigan House District 39 Choose 1
Duties: The Michigan House of Representatives shares responsibility with the Michigan Senate to enact new laws and amend or repeal existing laws.Qualifications: Representatives are elected in even-numbered years to 2-year terms. They must be at least 21 years of age and a registered voter in their district. There are 110 State House districts which are re-apportioned after each census.Term: 2 years
Biographical Information
EDUCATION: How do you evaluate Michigan’s current education system in terms of quality, funding, the teacher workforce and standardized testing? What changes, if any, would you propose or support?
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ECONOMY: What policy initiatives do you support for residents to earn a living wage and address the overall question of affordability across Michigan?
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ENVIRONMENT/ENERGY: How would you approach ensuring energy reliability, consumer affordability, and environmental protection in Michigan?
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IMMIGRATION: What is your position on due process, First Amendment, and Fourth Amendment rights for all Michigan residents, including noncitizens, and what changes, if any, would you support?
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Biographical Information
EDUCATION: How do you evaluate Michigan’s current education system in terms of quality, funding, the teacher workforce and standardized testing? What changes, if any, would you propose or support?
Candidate has not yet responded.
ECONOMY: What policy initiatives do you support for residents to earn a living wage and address the overall question of affordability across Michigan?
Candidate has not yet responded.
ENVIRONMENT/ENERGY: How would you approach ensuring energy reliability, consumer affordability, and environmental protection in Michigan?
Candidate has not yet responded.
IMMIGRATION: What is your position on due process, First Amendment, and Fourth Amendment rights for all Michigan residents, including noncitizens, and what changes, if any, would you support?
Candidate has not yet responded.
Biographical Information
Website
http://www.votepolonowski.com
Occupation / Current Position
Subcontractor/graduate student
Education
Bachelors
Qualifications and Experience
Chamber, booster and political boards, chairperson of locals org, secretary of the Green Party of MI, democratic nominee for state of MI, owned operated small business
EDUCATION: How do you evaluate Michigan’s current education system in terms of quality, funding, the teacher workforce and standardized testing? What changes, if any, would you propose or support?
I'd rather look at it a different way. Michigan's education system needs major improvements, from funding that needs significant increases, probably a complete overhaul considering school of choice and charter schools are decimating entire districts. The teacher workforce needs improvement, from the improving teaching requirements to pay and benefits and classroom support. Our goal should creating be optimal environment for learning and we know what this entails, but we are choosing to not execute the changes. I personally don't care for standardized testing but there are reasons to continue their implementation to evaluate progress.
ECONOMY: What policy initiatives do you support for residents to earn a living wage and address the overall question of affordability across Michigan?
I would first and foremost Focus on education and skills training with a good public education policy from prek to college and ensure that all of our employers in Michigan provide a wage that would ensure that our workers are able to be independent and productive citizens in their own communities. If you work 40 hours a week, you should be able to afford housing, food and shelter without government welfare and subsidies. Same goes for corporations, corporations shouldn't be posting profits or profit sharing while taking government welfare and subsidies.
ENVIRONMENT/ENERGY: How would you approach ensuring energy reliability, consumer affordability, and environmental protection in Michigan?
In a perfect world the people would own the utilities that they rely on such as electric, water and gas and we would remove the greedy corporations from raping and pillaging Americans. In the short term I would focus on nuclear power generation to overcome our energy shortages and I would focus on green energy in the long term with the goal zero carbon emissions and require large corporations to be responsible for paying their fair share and ensuring that they are also net zero or otherwise be taxed accordingly to recover their carbon emissions. Shut down line 5. We have an obligation to the entire world as Michiganders to protect the lakes.
IMMIGRATION: What is your position on due process, First Amendment, and Fourth Amendment rights for all Michigan residents, including noncitizens, and what changes, if any, would you support?
I would focus on ensuring all non-citizens be registered with the state and have an avenue to obtain proper documentation to work, own property and pay taxes in the state and have access to a free pathway for us citizenship. Existence should not be illegal.