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Name: DINNER & DIALOGUE CANDIDATE FORUM FOR STATE SENATE SEATS In Partnership With: INFORM. ENGAGE. ACT. • Welcome • State Senate District • Sizing Up Candidate Speech AGENDA • Determine Table Questions • 1-minute Candidate Introductions June 28, 2018 • Speed Dating with Candidates ©CitizenDetroit 2018. CitizenDetroit Dinner & Dialogue is propriety content. Use of materials outside of the organization requires consent. 2018 ELECTIONS COLOR GUIDE DPSCD School Board Secretary of Legislative (9 total; 2 seats up for election) State Makes & changes laws Hires the Superintendent, Chief election officer. Executive establishes policies for the Oversees vehicle Puts laws into action district, approves the budget, registration and Judicial and determines facility needs licensing of drivers. Interprets the law Other Attorney General 36th District Court Chief law enforcement (31 total; 11 seats up for election) officer. Legal advisor to state gov. District court judges deal with DETROIT traffic violations, landlord/tenant issues, lawsuits up to $25,000 and money disputes up to $6,000. County Commissioners (16 total; 7 Detroit) Legislators for Wayne County: 3rd Circuit Court adopts the budget and enacts (58 total; 19 seats up for election) ordinances. Circuit Court judges deal with larger civil cases, criminal cases (eg. drugs, violence), and family WAYNE cases (eg. child custody, domestic violence, divorce). COUNTY Probate Court (8 total; 3 seats up for election) Probate judges deal with wills County Executive Top executive for Wayne County. and estates - such as what Responsible for delivering happens when a homeowner county services, implementing dies without a will and there is county laws. a question about who now owns the house. 2 Wayne County Comm. Secretary of College Board of Trustees (9 total; 5 Detroit; 3 seats up for State election) Governor/Lt. Governor Chief election officer. MI House of Reps Top executive for the State Oversees vehicle of Michigan. Signs off on laws registration and (110 state total; 10 Detroit) passed by the State legislature licensing of drivers. Lawmakers who are elected and implements those laws. from all over Michigan to make laws and pass the budget for the whole state. UMich Board of Regents (8 total; 2 seats up for MI Senate MICHIGAN election) (38 state total; 5 Detroit seats) Lawmakers who are elected from all over Michigan to make laws and pass the budget for the whole MI First District state. Court of Appeals (6 total; 2 seats up for election) MI Supreme Court (7 total; 2 seats up for election) Wayne State Board of Governors (8 total; 2 seats up for election) MSU Board of Trustees (8 total; 2 seats up for election) US House of Reps. (435 national total; 14 MI total; US Senate (100 national total; 33 nationally 2 Detroit) up for election; 2 MI total; 1 seat up Lawmakers who are elected from all 50 states who come for election in MI) together to make laws and 2 Senators from each of the 50 pass the budget for the UNITED states are elected to pass laws whole country. and adopt the budget for the STATES whole country. 3 SIZINGSIZING UP UPCANDIDATE CANDIDATE SPEECH SPEECH 1.PLATITUDES Water is a right! WHAT TO LISTEN FOR WHEN A general statement that sounds HEARING A POLITICIAN TALK good, but doesn’t oer specific actions the candidate will take. Great! So what’s your plan to ensure water for families? 4. PERTINENT Directly responds 2. PANDERING I tell you “bold”and to the question. Tells people what they want “challenging” ideas that Demonstrates understanding to hear to gain their votes. CONFIRM YOUR VIEWS. about the role of the oce. Often appeals to people’s Demonstrates accurate knowledge prejudices or fears or myths. about the issue. 3.GOOD PIVOT/BAD PIVOT 5.POTSHOT GOOD PIVOT: Responds, but redirects the topic by building a verbal bridge from one topic to a dierent topic that is their priority. An unfounded or irrelevant criticism of an opponent’s character that doesn’t impact Neighborhood revitalization job performance (like gender or religion), Q: when the target doesn’t have a chance to A: BLIGHT... ...BUDGET DECISIONS defend him/herself. OPPORTUNISTIC X BAD PIVOT: Avoids the topic and/or switches to UNFOUNDED dierent topics that they really want to talk about. huh? IRRELEVANT Q: Neighborhood revitalization INFORM. ENGAGE. ACT. A: LET’S TALK ABOUT CLASSROOM SIZES! CitizenDetroit.org • InformDetroit.org @CitizenDetroit (313) 334-3131 4 PARTIAL TERM; TERM LIMITS - DISTRICT 2 State Senators are limited to two four-year terms. Partial terms (elected or appointed) that last for more than one half of a term are considered one term for the purpose of term limits. (Michigan Constitution Article IV, Section 54) State Senate District 2 2018 Election Cycle STATE SENATE DISTRICT 2 [Partial Term & Full Term] 2018 Election CycleGov. Snyder chose to conduct the State Senate Dist. 2 special election (Partial Term &s iFullmul tTerm)aneously with the regular election Governor Snyder chose to conduct the State Senate District 2 special election simultaneously with the regular election. Aug. 7th, 2018 Nov. 6th, 2018 Primary Vote General Vote Partial & Full Partial & Full Term Term Partial State Sen. Bert Johnson Vacant Full Term Term Jan. 1st, 2019 Dec. 31st, 2022 Jan. 1st 2015 Mar. 3rd, 2018 Full Full Current Term State Sen. Term Begins Term Ends Begin Johnson Nov. 7th - Dec. Resigns 31st, 2018 Partial Term 5 ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES Article IV of Michigan’s State Constitution outlines the roles and responsibilities of the Legislative Branch of our government. MICHIGAN STATE GOVERNMENT STATE SUPREME STATE LEGISLATURE GOVERNOR COURT House of Senate Representatives The Senate consists of 38 members from across The state constitution also highlights certain issues the state who are elected for four-year terms as critical to the public interest, and outlines them during the same election period as the Governor. as duties of the legislature. Notable examples are: (Article IV, Section 2) Each senator represents • Protection of the air, water, and other between 212,400 and 263,500 residents. natural resources of the state from pollution, Each senator must be a citizen of the United States, impairment, and destruction at least 21 years old, and a voting resident of the • Protection and promotion of public health district he or she represents. • Resolution of disputes concerning public employees, except those in the state classified Senators are primarily responsible for proposing civil service new laws and, through the appropriations process, deciding how our tax dollars get spent and The Senate approves Gubernatorial appointees. prioritized in the state budget. Senators on the (Article V, Section 3 & 6) Appropriations committee can decide to further fund or completely cut programs like workforce Senators investigate and vote on impeachment apprenticeships, road funding projects, or low- cases brought against public officials that are income health care services. initiated by the House of Representatives. A two- thirds vote of the full Senate is required to convict. 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