Primary Election—Vote August 2 ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ Lifespan Volume 45 Number 5 Presenting the Pro-Life Message in Southeastern Michigannews Since 1970 July 2016 CANDIDATE SURVEY Inside: LIFESPAN sent the following ten-question survey to each candidate for U.S. House of Representatives, F District Index State Senate (Wayne Co., 4th Dist.), Michigan House of Representatives, County Commissioner and various page 2 other offices in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb Counties. (A separate Judicial Candidate Survey was also mailed to candidates for Appeals, Circuit, District and Probate Courts. See pages 21-24.) F Wayne 1. The 1973 U.S. Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision allows for abortion for any reason, even as a County method of birth control, even in the late stages of pregnancy. Do you SUPPORT the reversal of this Candidates decision? pages 3-8

2. Do you SUPPORT a law banning partial-birth abortions? F Election Calendar 3. Some public funds are used for abortions or abortion referrals. Do you OPPOSE the use of public funds for abortion or abortion referrals except to prevent the death of a mother? page 8

4. Human embryonic stem cells and human fetal tissue are used in some medical experimentation F Oakland which has no beneficial effects for the fetus. Would you SUPPORT legislation that would prohibit County the use of embryonic stem cells and fetal tissue research, especially when the killing of the preborn Candidates child is necessary for this type of experimentation? pages 9-15

5. Due to recent revelations of the practices of Planned Parenthood, would you defund Planned F Macomb Parenthood? County 6. Would you SUPPORT a law banning so-called “reproductive cloning” – cloning meant to result in Candidates the birth of a baby? pages 16-20

7. Knowing that the removal of stem cells from human embryos results in the death of those F Registering embryos, would you SUPPORT a law banning so-called “therapeutic cloning” (somatic cell to Vote and nuclear transfer)? Absentee Ballots 8. Do you OPPOSE laws allowing assisted suicide (so called “aid in dying”)? page 20 9. Do you SUPPORT honoring the wishes of patients who want life-saving treatment (including food F and water) regardless of their degree of disability, age and “quality of life”? Judicial Survey and 10. Do you SUPPORT legislation that would protect health care professionals from being forced to Candidates distribute medications or provide medical care that violates their moral or religious beliefs? pages 21-24

NOTE: LIFESPAN is not a political organization and does not endorse candidates for election. We have surveyed the candidates as a service to our members. The questionnaires are on file at LIFESPAN’s Main Office for your perusal. If you need further verification on a candidate’s stand on these or other issues, please contact the candidate directly. GOVERNMENTAL UNIT C SS SH AC CC DC WAYNE COUNTY Michigan Legislative Index Michigan Congressional Allen Park City...... 12 4 13 1 3 24 Belleville City...... 12 6 21 1 3 34 State Senate Brownstown Twp...... 12 6 23 1 3 33 State House of Representatives Canton Twp...... 11 7 20, 21 1 3 35 Dearborn City...... 12 3 9, 15 1 3 19 Court of Appeals Dearborn Heights City...... 12, 13 5 11, 13 1 3 20 Detroit City...... 13, 14 1-4 1-10 1 3 36 Circuit Court Ecorse City...... 13 1 6 1 3 25 District Court Flat Rock City...... 12 6 17 1 3 33 Garden City...... 13 5 11 1 3 21 Gibraltar City...... 12 1 23 1 3 33 Codes for District Numbers: Grosse Ile Twp...... 12 1 23 1 3 33 Grosse Pointe City...... 14 2 2 1 3 M C = Congressional District No. Grosse Pointe Farms City...... 14 2 2 1 3 M SS = State Senate District No. Grosse Pointe Park City...... 14 2 2 1 3 M Grosse Pointe Woods City...... 14 2 1 1 3 M SH = State House of Representatives District No. Hamtramck City...... 14 2 4 1 3 31 Harper Woods City...... 14 2 1 1 3 32A AC = Appeals Court District No. Highland Park City...... 13 2 7 1 3 30 CC = Circuit Court Circuit No. Huron Twp...... 12 6 23 1 3 34 Inkster City...... 13 5 11 1 3 22 DC = District Court No. Lincoln Park City...... 12 4 14 1 3 25 Livonia City...... 11 7 11, 19 1 3 16 M = Municipal Court Melvindale City...... 13 3 14 1 3 24 Northville City...... 11 7 20 1 3 35 To locate your Congressperson, State Senator, State Representa- (see also Oakland Co.) Northville Twp...... 11 7 20 1 3 35 tive or appropriate court, use the lists on this page. If your city Plymouth City...... 11 7 20 1 3 35 is in more than one district, call your county or city clerk or Plymouth Twp...... 11 7 20 1 3 35 Redford Twp...... 13 5 10 1 3 17 the Elections Bureau of the Michigan Department of State at River Rouge City...... 13 1 6 1 3 25 Riverview City...... 12 1 14 1 3 27 517-373-2540 or see the website at: www.michigan.gov.sos Rockwood City...... 12 1 17 1 3 33 Source: A Citizen’s Guide to State Government Romulus City...... 13 6 12 1 3 34 Michigan Legislature Southgate City...... 12 4 13 1 3 28 Sumpter Twp...... 12 6 17 1 3 34 Taylor City...... 12 6 12 1 3 23 GOVERNMENTAL UNIT C SS SH AC CC DC Trenton City...... 12 1 23 1 3 33 OAKLAND COUNTY Van Buren Twp...... 12 6 12, 21 1 3 34 Village of Grosse Pointe Shores City...... 14 8 1 1 3 M Addison Twp...... 8 12 46 2 6 52 (see also Macomb Co.) Auburn Hills City...... 11 12 29 2 6 52 Wayne City...... 13 7 16 1 3 29 Berkley City...... 9 13 27 2 6 44 Westland City...... 13 6 11, 16 1 3 18 Birmingham City...... 11 13 40 2 6 48 Woodhaven City...... 12 1 23 1 3 33 Bloomfield Hills City...... 11 13 40 2 6 48 Wyandotte City...... 12 1 14 1 3 27 Bloomfield Twp...... 9 12 40 2 6 48 Brandon Twp...... 8 14 46 2 6 52 Clawson City...... 9, 11 13 41 2 6 52 Commerce Twp...... 11 15 39 2 6 52 Farmington City...... 11 11 37 2 6 47 Farmington Hills City...... 14 11 37 2 6 47 Fenton City...... 8 14 51 2 6 67 Ferndale City ...... 9 11 27 2 6 43 Groveland Twp...... 8 14 51 2 6 52 GOVERNMENTAL UNIT C SS SH AC CC DC Hazel Park City ...... 9 11 27 2 6 43 MACOMB COUNTY Highland Twp...... 11 14 44 2 6 52 Holly Twp...... 8 14 51 2 6 52 Armada Twp...... 10 25 33 2 16 42 Huntington Woods City...... 9 11 27 2 6 45 Bruce Twp...... 10 8 36 2 16 42 Independence Twp...... 8 12 43 2 6 52 Center Line City...... 9 9 28 2 16 37 Keego Harbor City ...... 14 15 29 2 6 48 Chesterfield Twp...... 10 8 32 2 16 42 Lake Angelus City...... 11 12 43 2 6 52 Clinton Twp...... 9 10 24, 31 2 16 41B Lathrup Village City...... 14 11 35 2 6 46 Eastpointe City ...... 9 9 18 2 16 38 Lyon Twp...... 11 15 38 2 6 52 Fraser City ...... 9 9 31 2 16 39 Madison Heights City...... 9 11 26 2 6 43 Harrison Twp...... 10 8 24 2 16 41B Milford Twp...... 11 15 44 2 6 52 Lenox Twp...... 10 8 33 2 16 42 Northville City...... 11 15 38 2 6 35 Macomb Twp...... 10 10 24 2 16 41A (see also Wayne Co.) Memphis City ...... 10 25 35 2 16 42 Novi City ...... 11 15 38 2 6 52 (also St. Clair Co.) Novi Twp...... 11 15 38 2 6 52 Mt. Clemens City...... 9 8 31 2 16 41B Oakland Twp...... 8 12 45, 46 2 6 52 New Baltimore ...... 10 8 32 2 16 42 Oak Park City...... 14 11 27 2 6 45 Ray Twp...... 10 8 33 2 16 42 Orchard Lake Village City...... 14 15 29 2 6 48 Richmond City...... 10 8 33 2 16 42 Orion Twp...... 8 12 46 2 6 52 (also St. Clair Co.) Oxford Twp...... 8 12 46 2 6 52 Richmond Twp...... 10 25 33 2 16 42 Pleasant Ridge City...... 9 11 27 2 6 45 Roseville City...... 9 9 22 2 16 39 Pontiac City...... 14 12 29 2 6 50 Shelby Twp...... 10 8 30 2 16 41A Rochester City...... 8 13 45 2 6 52 St. Clair Shores City...... 9 8 18 2 16 40 Rochester Hills City...... 8, 11 13 45 2 6 52 Sterling Heights City...... 9, 10 10 25, 30 2 16 41A Rose Twp...... 8 14 51 2 6 52 Utica City...... 10 8 30 2 16 41A Royal Oak City...... 9 13 26 2 6 44 Village of Grosse Pte. Shores...... 9 8 18 2 16 M Royal Oak Twp...... 14 11 27 2 6 45 (see also Wayne Co.) Southfield City...... 14 11 35 2 6 46 Warren City...... 9 9 22, 25, 28 2 16 37 Southfield Twp...... 9 12 40 2 6 46 Washington Twp...... 10 8 36 2 16 42 South Lyon City...... 11 15 38 2 6 52 Springfield Twp...... 8 14 44 2 6 52 Sylvan Lake City...... 14 12 29 2 6 48 Troy City...... 11 13 41 2 6 52 Village of Clarkston City...... 8 12 43 2 6 52 Walled Lake City...... 11 15 38 2 6 52 Waterford Twp...... 11 14 43, 44 2 6 51 West Bloomfield Twp...... 11, 14 15 39, 40 2 6 48 White Lake Twp...... 11 15 44 2 6 52 Wixom City...... 11 15 39 2 6 52

2 LIFESPAN NEWS F July 2016 WAYNE COUNTY ✔ Candidate Questionnaire Responses KEY: Y = YES N = NO * = with qualifications/comments (call LIFESPAN 734-524-0162)

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U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 3rd District State Representative John Brodersen (R) No Response 11th Congressional District April Bonner-Archer (D) No Response David A. Trott (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Wendell L. Byrd (D) No Response Anil Kumar (D) No Response Burgess Foster (D) No Response Donavan McKinney (D) No Response Damian C. Mitchell (D) No Response 12th Congressional District Lee Qualls (D) No Response Jeff Jones (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y N Y Y Al Williams (D) No Response Debbie Dingell (D) No Response 4th District State Representative 13th Congressional District Matt Schonert (R) No Response Jeff Gorman (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y — Y Y Y Charles A. Bell (D) No Response John Conyers, Jr. (D) No Response Mohammed Hassan (D) No Response Janice Winfrey (D) No Response Quincy Jones (D) No Response Jumar Motley (D) N Y Y Y N Y Y Y Y Y 14th Congressional District Rose Mary Robinson (D) No Response Howard Klausner (R) No Response Tracy Russell (D) No Response Brenda L. Lawrence (D) No Response Abraham Shaw (D) No Response Terrance Morrison (D) No Response Venessa Moss (D) No Response 5th District State Representative Dorthy Patterson (R) No Response STATE SENATE Fred Durhal (D) No Response Cynthia A. Johnson (D) No Response 4th District State Senator Keith Franklin (R) No Response James Cole, Jr. (D) No Response 6th District State Representative Ian Conyers (D) No Response Attie Pollard (R) No Response Fred Durhal, Jr. (D) No Response Dennis L. Black (D) No Response Patricia J. Holmes (D) No Response Stephanie Chang (D) No Response Vanessa Simpson Olive (D) No Response Deirdre Jackson (D) No Response Carron L. Pinkins (D) No Response Donnie N. Malone, Jr. (D) No Response Ralph R. Rayner (D) No Response Dwayne Redding (D) No Response H. Helena Scott (D) No Response David Sanchez (D) No Response Howard Worthy (D) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Casondria Walker-Keith (D) No Response

STATE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 7th District State Representative Gina Alicia Barr (R) No Response 1st District State Representative LaTanya Garrett (D) No Response William Broman (R) No Response Bernard Thompson (D) No Response Kameshea M. Amos (D) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Brian R. Banks (D) No Response Corey J. Gilchrist (D) No Response 8th District State Representative Keith Hollowell (D) No Response Jennifer Rynicki (R) No Response Pamela Sossi (D) No Response Sherry Gay-Dagnogo (D) No Response Washington Youson (D) No Response

Wayne County continued on page 4 2nd District State Representative Molly Augustine (R) No Response Anthony M. Murray (R) No Response Willie Bell (D) No Response Jeremy Henner (D) No Response Angles L. Hunt (D) No Response E. Regina Jones (D) No Response Every election is determined Bettie Cook Scott (D) No Response by the people who show up.” Joseph Tate (D) No Response Carla Tinsley-Smith (D) No Response ~ Larry J. Sabato ~

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9th District State Representative 16th District State Representative James Stephens (R) No Response Pat Gaffka (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y * Y Y Annie Carter (D) No Response Matthew Morrow (R) No Response Tijuana Morris (D) No Response Robert L. Kosowski (D) No Response Alicia Murphy (D) No Response William Phillips (D) No Response Gary S. Pollard (D) No Response 17th District State Representative Regina Ross (D) No Response Joseph Bellino, Jr. (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Sylvia Santana (D) No Response Bill LaVoy (D) No Response 19th District State Representative 10th District State Representative Laura Cox (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y William Brang (R) No Response Steve King (D) No Response Mary Cavanagh (D) No Response Jon Smith (D) No Response Elizabeth Jefferson (D) No Response Leslie Love (D) No Response Mary Mazur (D) No Response 20th District State Representative Jeffrey T. Neilson (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Jeff Noble (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y 11th District State Representative Chris Roosen (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Robert Pope (R) No Response Colleen Pobur (D) No Response Dale Prosser (R) No Response John J. Sullivan (D) No Response Julie Plawecki (D) Deceased 21st District State Representative 12th District State Representative Derek Moss (R) No Response Erik Soderquist (R) No Response Kristy Pagan (D) No Response Erika Geiss (D) No Response Edward F. Martell (D) No Response 23rd District State Representative Michael Frazier (R) No Response 13th District State Representative Bob Howey (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Annie L. Spencer (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Mike Taylor (R) No Response Frank Liberati (D) No Response Sherry A. Berecz (D) No Response Rebecca Reed (D) No Response Darrin Camilleri (D) No Response Elayne M. Petrucci (D) No Response 14th District State Representative Steven Rzeppa (D) No Response Darrell Stasik (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Jeff Chicoine (D) No Response Cara Clemente (D) No Response PROSECUTING ATTORNEY John A. Maranian (D) No Response Kym L. Worthy (D) No Response Daniela Peric (D) No Response SHERIFF 15th District State Representative Shelly L. Milton (D) No Response Terrance Guido Gerin (R) * Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Benny N. Napoleon (D) No Response Richard B. Johnson (R) No Response Dickie White (D) No Response Paul E. Sophiea (R) No Response Norman B. Alsahoury (D) Y Y Y Y Y N Y N Y Y CLERK Abdullah Hammoud (D) No Response Adam Salam Adamski (D) Y Y Y Y Y* Y Y Y Y Y Roxanne McDonald (D) No Response Cathy M. Garrett (D) No Response Alex Shami (D) No Response Brian Stone (D) No Response Jacklin Zeidan (D) No Response TREASURER Beverly Kindle-Walker (D) Y Y Y N N Y Y Y Y Y Eric Sabree (D) No Response

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REGISTER OF DEEDS 9th District County Commissioner LaMar Lemmons (D) No Response Thomas C. Berry (R) No Response Ricardo R. Moore (D) No Response Terry A. Marecki (R) Y Y — Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Bernard J. Youngblood (D) No Response Patrick Crandell (D) No Response

WAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE 10th District County Commissioner Joe Barone (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y TRUSTEE (non-partisan) Nate Smith-Tyge (D) No Response Scott T. Holiday, Dist. 4 No Response Lee Yancy, Dist. 4 No Response Robin Paul, Dist. 6 No Response 11th District County Commissioner Maria Edwards Wheeler, Dist. 6 No Response A. Haidous (D) No Response Alan Anderson, Dist. 7 No Response Patrick Kelley, Dist. 7 No Response 12th District County Commissioner Glenn S. Anderson (D) No Response WAYNE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS Susan Mason (D) No Response 1st District County Commissioner John W. Steininger (R) No Response 13th District County Commissioner Tim Killeen (D) No Response Gary Woronchak (D) No Response DaRell Andre Reed (D) No Response

14th District County Commissioner 2nd District County Commissioner Raymond E. Basham (D) No Response Jewel Ware (D) No Response 15th District County Commissioner 3rd District County Commissioner Patrick D. O’Connell (R) No Response R. L. Lemmons (D) No Response Patricia D. Hartig (D) No Response Anam Miah (D) No Response Joseph Palamara (D) No Response Martha G. Scott (D) No Response Brownstown Twp Supervisor 4th District County Commissioner Andrew Linko (D) Y Y Y Y Y — — Y Y Y Ilona Varga (D) No Response Teri Rybski (D) No Response

5th District County Commissioner Brownstown Twp Clerk Benjamin Bowman (D) No Response Sean Pacheco (D) No Response Michelle Broughton (D) No Response Brian Peters (D) No Response Irma Clark-Coleman (D) No Response Brownstown Twp Treasurer 6th District County Commissioner Mike Eberth (D) No Response Carl W. Baxter (D) No Response Alvin Bowman (D) N N N N N N N N Y Y Brownstown Twp Trustee Burton Leland (D) No Response Maureen Brinker (D) No Response Monique Baker McCormick (D) No Response John Joseph Cronin (D) No Response Joseph Grimes (D) No Response Patrick Killian (D) No Response 7th District County Commissioner John Knappmann (D) No Response Alisha Bell (D) No Response Clyde P. Walters (D) No Response

8th District County Commissioner Diane L. Webb (D) No Response

Wayne County continued on page 6

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CANDIDATE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 CANDIDATE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Canton Twp Supervisor Huron Twp Supervisor Pat Williams (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y David A. Glaab (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Syed Taj (D) No Response David Haener (D) No Response Marlene C. Krause (D) No Response Canton Twp Clerk Thomas Lutkenhoff (R) Y Y Y Y * * * Y Y Y Huron Twp Clerk Linda Obrec (R) No Response Kathlene Van Wasshnova (R) No Response Michael A. Siegrist (D) No Response Antoinette Gracia (D) No Response

Canton Twp Treasurer Huron Twp Treasurer Melissa McLaughlin (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Colleen Lazere (D) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Dian Slavens (D) No Response Linda Spangler (D) No Response Claude E. Wright (D) No Response Canton Twp Trustee John Anthony (R) No Response Huron Twp Trustee Geoff Boltach (R) No Response John Chont (R) No Response Darian Moore (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Michael Glaab (R) No Response Thomas Yack (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Walter Irodenko (R) No Response Sommer Nicole Foster (D) No Response David J. Patterson (R) No Response AnneMarie Graham-Hudak (D) No Response Jeremy R. Cady (D) No Response Steven M. Sneideman (D) No Response R. P. Lilly (D) No Response Dhaval Vaishnav (D) No Response Donna Puskar Mendrysa (D) No Response Candace Myshock (D) No Response Kristy Novicki (D) No Response Detroit City Council-at-Large (non-partisan) Melanie Ann Shepler (D) No Response Janee Ayers No Response Jesse Smrcka (D) No Response David Alexander Bullock No Response John W. Cromer N N N Y N Y Y N Y N Sigmunt J. Szczepkowski, Jr. No Response Lincoln Park Mayor (non-partisan) Eric Williams No Response Thomas E. Karnes No Response

Grosse Ile Twp Supervisor Lincoln Park Clerk (non-partisan) Brian Loftus (R) No Response Donna Breeding No Response

Grosse Ile Twp Clerk Lincoln Park Treasurer (non-partisan) Ute O’Connor (R) No Response Patricia Lulko No Response Grosse Ile Twp Treasurer Theodore A. VanOs (R) No Response Lincoln Park City Council (non-partisan) Chris Dardzinski No Response Mario DiSanto No Response Grosse Ile Twp Trustee Michael Higgins No Response Carl Bloetscher III (R) No Response Larry F. Kelsey No Response James Budny (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Thomas A. Murphy N Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Walt Kacher, Jr. (R) No Response Thomas Parkinson No Response Thomas Malvesto (R) No Response Maureen Tobin No Response Jim Nelson (R) No Response Walter J. Pociask (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Northville Twp Supervisor Robert R. Nix II (R) No Response

Northville Twp Clerk Sue A. Hillebrand (R) No Response

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Northville Twp Treasurer Redford Twp Treasurer Marjorie F. Banner (R) No Response Lily Cavanagh (D) No Response Lynn Ellyn (D) No Response Northville Twp Trustee Marvin Gans (R) No Response Redford Twp Trustee Symantha Heath (R) No Response Adam Bonarek (D) No Response Mindy Herrmann (R) No Response Jim Brenner (D) No Response Sonia Scappaticci (R) No Response Joseph T. Czech (D) No Response Fred Shadko (R) No Response Brian Everidge (D) No Response Ghulam Qadir (D) No Response Kenya Harper-Black (D) No Response Linda Jackson (D) No Response Joe Jenkins (D) No Response Plymouth Twp Supervisor Elizabeth Kangas (D) No Response Kurt L. Heise (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Jennifer M. Petty (D) No Response Shannon Price (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Kim Taylor (D) No Response Patty Werth (D) No Response Plymouth Twp Clerk Christopher Williams (D) No Response Nancy Conzelman (R) No Response Jerry Vorva (R) N Y Y Y Y Y Y N Y Y Sumpter Twp Supervisor Jay Bardell II (D) No Response Plymouth Twp Treasurer John W. Morgan (D) No Response Mark Clinton (R) No Response Ron Edwards (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Mary L. Siefert (D) No Response Sumpter Twp Clerk Deb Callison (D) No Response Clarence Hoffman, Jr. (D) No Response Plymouth Twp Trustee Esther Hurst (D) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Charles J. Curmi (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Jack Dempsey (R) * * * * * * * * * * Bob Doroshewitz (R) No Response Sumpter Twp Treasurer Alan D. Bates (D) No Response Gary Heitman (R) No Response Lydia May Graber (D) No Response Michael Kelly (R) No Response

Mike Oliansky (R) Y Y Y * Y Y * N* Y Y Thomas Parrelly (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Sumpter Twp Trustee Alexander Roehl (R) No Response Tim Rush (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Don Schnettler (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Jerry Anderson, Jr. (D) No Response Teresa Somercik (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Don LaPorte (D) No Response Peggy Morgan (D) No Response Matt Oddy (D) No Response Redford Twp Supervisor Jennifer Price (D) No Response James I. Bailey (D) No Response Ron Barrington Robinson (D) No Response Patricia Kennedy (D) No Response Jane Stalmack (D) No Response Tracey Schultz Kobylarz (D) No Response Don Swinson (D) No Response Pat McRae (D) No Response Tom O’Connor (D) No Response Wayne County continued on page 8 Redford Twp Clerk Garth J. Christie (D) No Response

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters. ~ Abraham Lincoln ~

LIFESPAN NEWS F July 2016 7 WAYNE COUNTY ✔ Candidate Questionnaire Responses KEY: Y = YES N = NO * = with qualifications/comments (call LIFESPAN 734-524-0162) CANDIDATE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 LIFESPAN Candidate Survey Right to Life - LIFESPAN, Inc. is a non-profit educa- Taylor Charter Commission (non-partisan) tional and legislative organization. The first informs Robert J. Chmielewski Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y and motivates people to do something. The second Tina Daniels No Response Dan Dobbins No Response speaks to changing laws. LIFESPAN can take sides William Craig Faulk No Response and urge passage of legislation which is called lobby- William Fisher No Response ing. LIFESPAN is not “political.” LIFESPAN does not Neil Thomas Goeckerman Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y have a political action committee (PAC) to elect or to Justin Mordarski Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Doug Reimel No Response defeat candidates.However, we can publish candidate surveys. This has been clearly permitted on a number Van Buren Twp Supervisor of occasions by the U.S. Supreme Court. We can also Phillip C. Hart (D) No Response list office holders and tell you how they have voted Brenda McClanahan (D) No Response on various issues. Such reporting, as we do it, is not Kevin McNamara (D) No Response “political.” Because this comes under Freedom of the Press, such information can be passed out through Van Buren Twp Clerk Leon Wright (D) No Response churches, without jeopardizing their tax status (again by a decision of the U.S. Supreme Court). According to Van Buren Twp Treasurer legal terminology, this corporation can engage in “issue Sharry A. Budd (D) No Response advocacy.” The responses to the survey questions are Harry R. Roesch (D) No Response dependent on the honesty and integrity of the individ- ual candidates. LIFESPAN is not responsible for any Van Buren Twp Trustee candidate’s responses that differ from his or her public Sherry A. Frazier (D) No Response stance on the issues. Any questions on discrepancies Kevin Martin (D) No Response F Reggie Miller (D) No Response should be directed to the candidate. Albert Ostrowski (D) No Response ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ Paul D. White (D) No Response Anthony Woodford (D) No Response Election Calendar ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ JULY 5 - Last day to register for August Primary Election. JULY 30 (by 2 p.m.) - Electors who wish to receive an absent voter ballot for the August primary by mail must submit absent voter ballot applications. AUGUST 1 (up to 4 p.m.) - Electors qualified to obtain an absent voter ballot for August primary may vote in person Remember something, if you will, in clerk’s office. about voting: Voting is not a horse race, AUGUST 2 (TUESDAY) - STATE PRIMARY you're not going there thinking, OCTOBER 11 - Last day to register for November General "Gee, I gotta pick the winner so I can brag to Election. my friends. Oh, I picked so-and-so and he or NOVEMBER 5 (by 2 p.m.) - Electors who wish to receive she won.” Voting is voting your heart an absent voter ballot for the November general election by and voting your conscience and when you've mail must submit absent voter ballot applications. done that, don't ever, EVER let a Democrat or NOVEMBER 7 (up to 4 p.m.) - Electors qualified to obtain Republican tell you that you've wasted your vote because the fact is, if you DON'T vote an absent voter ballot for November general election may your heart and conscience vote in person in clerk’s office. then you HAVE wasted your vote. NOVEMBER 8 (TUESDAY) - GENERAL ELECTION ~ Jesse Ventura ~

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U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 38th District State Representative Kathy S. Crawford (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y 8th Congressional District Carson Daniel Lauffer (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Mike Bishop (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Jason G. W. Dorsch (D) No Response Melissa Gilbert (D) Withdrew Amy McCusker (D) No Response 9th Congressional District Christopher R. Morse (R) No Response 39th District State Representative Klint Kesto (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Sander Levin (D) No Response Michael Stack (D) No Response 11th Congressional District David A. Trott (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y 40th District State Representative Michael D. McCready (R) No Response Anil Kumar (D) No Response Nicole Bedi (D) No Response 14th Congressional District Howard Klausner (R) No Response 41st District State Representative Brenda L. Lawrence (D) No Response Martin Howrylak (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Terrance Morrison (D) No Response Ryan Manier (R) No Response Venessa Moss (D) No Response Cyndi Peltonen (D) No Response

STATE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 43rd District State Representative Jim Tedder (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y 26th District State Representative Ted Villella (D) No Response Randy LeVasseur (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Jim Ellison (D) No Response 44th District State Representative Jim Runestad (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y 27th District State Representative Mark Venie (D) No Response Kyle Forrest (R) No Response Stefan Graziano (R) No Response Robert Wittenberg (D) No Response 45th District State Representative Michael Webber (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Immanuel Eickholdt (D) No Response 29th District State Representative Ted Golden (D) No Response Garren W. Griffith (R) No Response Peter Trzos (R) No Response Tim Greimel (D) No Response 46th District State Representative Joe Kent (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y John Reilly (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y 35th District State Representative David Lillis (D) No Response Robert Brim (R) No Response Jeremy Moss (D) No Response 51st District State Representative Joseph Graves (R) No Response 37th District State Representative Katherine Houston (R) No Response Matt Beer (R) No Response John Lauve (R) No Response Mitch Swoboda (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Ryan Bladzik (D) No Response Christine Greig (D) No Response Oakland County continued on page 10

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. ‘Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

LIFESPAN NEWS F July 2016 9 OAKLAND COUNTY ✔ Candidate Questionnaire Responses KEY: Y = YES N = NO * = with qualifications/comments (call LIFESPAN 734-524-0162) CANDIDATE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 CANDIDATE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

EXECUTIVE 5th District County Commissioner L. Brooks Patterson (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Tom J. Berman (R) No Response Vicki Barnett (D) No Response Tom Isaacs (R) No Response Mark Danowski (D) No Response S. Bobby Jasti (R) No Response Pat Ogg (R) No Response Philip A. Trzos (R) No Response PROSECUTING ATTORNEY Jane Felice-Boudreau (D) No Response Mike Goetz (R) No Response Julia A. Pulver (D) No Response Jessica R. Cooper (D) No Response 6th District County Commissioner SHERIFF Eileen Kowall (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Michael J. Bouchard (R) No Response Kimberli Troutt (D) No Response Craig S. Covey (D) No Response 7th District County Commissioner CLERK/REGISTER OF DEEDS Ekbal Bahoda (R) No Response Tina Barton (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Christine A. Long (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Bill Bullard, Jr. (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Frederick Golding (D) No Response Lisa Brown (D) No Response Michael D. Smith (D) No Response 8th District County Commissioner Phil Weipert (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y TREASURER Roland J. Schneider (D) No Response John P. McCulloch (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Andy Meisner (D) No Response 9th District County Commissioner Hugh D. Crawford (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y OAKLAND COUNTY COMMISSIONERS Colleen Crossey (D) No Response 1st District County Commissioner Michael J. Gingell (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y 10th District County Commissioner Michelle Bryant (D) No Response David B. Foster (R) No Response Terry Haines (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y David Bowman (D) No Response 2nd District County Commissioner Salvatore Delia (R) No Response Bob Hoffman (R) No Response 11th District County Commissioner Robert Kleven (R) No Response Doug Tietz (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Rhonda Carr (D) No Response Bob Storc (D) No Response

3rd District County Commissioner 12th District County Commissioner Michael Spisz (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Chuck Moss (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Michelle McClellan (D) No Response Shelly Goodman Taub (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y* Y Y Y Charles Gaba (D) No Response 4th District County Commissioner Tom Middleton (R) No Response 13th District County Commissioner Phillip Reid (D) No Response Michelle Dinardo (R) No Response Max Rohtbart (R) No Response Marcia Gershenson (D) No Response

14th District County Commissioner Bill Dwyer (R) No Response William Miller III (D) No Response No law can give me the right to do what is wrong. ~ Abraham Lincoln ~

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15th District County Commissioner Bloomfield Twp Supervisor Adam Kochenderfer (R) No Response Leo C. Savoie (R) No Response Mary Ward (D) No Response David Thomas (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y

16th District County Commissioner Bloomfield Twp Clerk Wade Fleming (R) No Response Susie Kern (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Charles Salgat (D) No Response Janet M. Roncelli (R) No Response

17th District County Commissioner Regina Brim (R) No Response Bloomfield Twp Treasurer David A. Cuttner (R) N Y N N Y Y N N Y Y Dan Devine (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Nancy Quarles (D) No Response Brian E. Kepes (R) No Response Bloomfield Twp Trustee 18th District County Commissioner Jeffrey Axt (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Steven Zimberg (R) No Response Neal Barnett (R) No Response Helaine Zack (D) No Response Kirk R. Brannock (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y David B. Buckley (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y 19th District County Commissioner Geoff Hockman (R) No Response Michael Ryan (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Corinne Khederian (R) No Response Dave Woodward (D) No Response Michael Schostak (R) No Response Dani Walsh (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y 20th District County Commissioner David J. Harrell (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Brandon Twp Supervisor J. Karl Jackson (R) No Response Jayson W. Rumball (R) No Response Gary R. McGillivray (D) No Response Kathy Thurman (R) No Response

21st District County Commissioner Richard A. Van Camp (R) No Response Brandon Twp Clerk Candee Allen (R) No Response Janet Jackson (D) No Response

Addison Twp Supervisor Brandon Twp Treasurer Bruce Pearson (R) No Response Terri Darnall (R) Y Y Y Y * Y Y N* Y Y Susan M. Hollingshead (R) No Response

Addison Twp Clerk Pauline Bennett (R) No Response Brandon Twp Trustee Dana M. DePalma (R) No Response Kris J. Kordella (R) No Response Robert S. Marshall (R) No Response Addison Twp Treasurer Elizabeth Waters (R) No Response Lori Fisher (R) No Response Patricia A. Salter (D) No Response

Addison Twp Trustee Commerce Twp Supervisor Deanna K. Cushing (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y N David E. Scott (R) No Response Jennie Eller (R) No Response Thomas K. Zoner (R) No Response Linda Gierak (R) No Response Joel King (R) No Response Philip Marshall (R) No Response Commerce Twp Clerk Jacob Newby (R) No Response Melissa Creech (R) No Response Erich Senft (R) No Response Kelly Finn (R) No Response Robert Long (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y

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LIFESPAN NEWS F July 2016 11 OAKLAND COUNTY ✔ Candidate Questionnaire Responses KEY: Y = YES N = NO * = with qualifications/comments (call LIFESPAN 734-524-0162) CANDIDATE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 CANDIDATE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Commerce Twp Treasurer Holly Twp Treasurer Molly B. Phillips (R) No Response Mark C. Freeman (R) No Response

Commerce Twp Trustee Holly Twp Trustee Bob Berkheiser (R) No Response Patrick Feeney (R) No Response John Hindo (R) No Response Steve Ruth (R) No Response Vanessa Magner (R) No Response Mark A. Cornwell (D) No Response Rick Sovel (R) No Response Maria Howard-Smith (D) No Response

Independence Twp Supervisor Groveland Twp Supervisor Patrick J. Kittle (R) No Response Robert DePalma (R) No Response

Independence Twp Clerk Groveland Twp Clerk Barbara A. Pallotta (R) No Response Pamela Mazich (R) No Response

Independence Treasurer Groveland Twp Treasurer Paul A. Brown (R) No Response David Ax (R) No Response

Independence Twp Trustee Groveland Twp Trustee Jose Aliaga (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Dale Cason (R) No Response Rachel Loughrin (R) No Response Merilyn McGee (R) No Response Tony Miller (R) No Response Ronald A. Ritchie (R) No Response Highland Twp Supervisor Andrea K. Schroeder (R) No Response Rick A. Hamill (R) No Response Lyon Twp Supervisor John Dolan (R) No Response Highland Twp Clerk Stephen Emsley (R) No Response Tami Flowers (R) No Response Catherine Kristian (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Lyon Twp Clerk Michele Cash (R) No Response Highland Twp Treasurer Judy Cooper (R) No Response Lyon Twp Treasurer Patricia D. Carcone (R) No Response Highland Twp Trustee Mary Pat Chynoweth (R) No Response Chuck Dittmar (R) No Response Lyon Twp Trustee Scott Green (R) No Response Lise Blades (R) No Response Brian Howe (R) No Response Daniel L. Cash (R) No Response Beth Lewis (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Jim Chuck (R) No Response Lee G. McCarty (R) No Response Kristofer Enlow (R) No Response Mary McDonnell (R) No Response John Hicks (R) No Response Joseph M. Salvia (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Edward Kriewall (R) No Response Phil Mitchell (R) No Response Sean O’Neil (R) No Response Holly Twp Supervisor Chriss Roberts (R) No Response George A. Kulis (R) No Response Mark J. Schultz (R) No Response Dale M. Smith (D) No Response Joe Shigley (R) No Response

Holly Twp Clerk Richard I. Kinnamon (R) No Response Karin S. Winchester (R) No Response

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Milford Twp Supervisor Orion Twp Supervisor Don Green (R) No Response Chris Barnett (R) No Response

Milford Twp Clerk Orion Twp Clerk Holly Brandt (R) No Response Penny S. Shults (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Jenn Zielinski (R) No Response Milford Twp Treasurer Cynthia Dagenhardt (R) No Response Orion Twp Treasurer Donni Steele (R) No Response Mark C. Thurber (R) No Response Milford Twp Trustee Randal Busick (R) No Response William E. Mazzara (R) No Response Orion Twp Trustee Dale R. Wiltse (R) No Response Brian Birney (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Brien R. Worrell (R) No Response Tony Cook (R) No Response Michael Flood, Jr. (R) No Response Neal Porter (R) No Response Novi Twp Supervisor Ron Sliwinski (R) No Response John F. Juntunen (R) No Response John Steimel (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Courtney F. Shafer (D) No Response Novi Twp Trustee Ray Schovers (R) No Response Oxford Twp Supervisor Tony Galdikas (D) No Response William Dunn (R) No Response

Oakland Twp Supervisor Michael Bailey (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Oxford Twp Clerk Curtis W. Wright (R) No Response Terry R. Gonser (R) Y Y Y Y Y* Y Y Y Y Y Andy Zale (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Oxford Twp Treasurer Oakland Twp Clerk Joseph G. Ferrari (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Karen Reilly (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Judy Workings (R) No Response Oxford Twp Trustee Melvin Cryderman (R) No Response Oakland Twp Treasurer Jack Curtis (R) No Response Jeanne Langlois (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Patti K. Durr (R) No Response Elgin L. Nichols (R) No Response Margaret J. Payne (R) No Response Oakland Twp Trustee Dominic Abbate (R) No Response Oakland County continued on page 14 Brian Blust (R) No Response Robin Buxar (R) No Response Jayson Corey (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Frank Ferriolo (R) No Response John Giannangeli (R) No Response Jeaneane Landers (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Lana Mangiapane (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Robert Ricketts (R) No Response You can either vote by voting or vote by not voting. If you don’t vote, someone else’s vote counts more. IT’S MATH.

LIFESPAN NEWS F July 2016 13 OAKLAND COUNTY ✔ Candidate Questionnaire Responses KEY: Y = YES N = NO * = with qualifications/comments (call LIFESPAN 734-524-0162) CANDIDATE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 CANDIDATE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Rose Twp Supervisor Southfield Twp Trustee Dianne Scheib-Snider (R) No Response Dan Nelson (R) No Response Bonnie Cook (D) No Response Paul J. Scarcello (D) No Response Rose Twp Clerk Debbie Miller (R) No Response Springfield Twp Supervisor David F. Smith (R) No Response Rose Twp Treasurer Collin Walls (R) No Response Paul J. Gambka (R) No Response Dior Rushton (R) No Response Springfield Twp Clerk Laura Moreau (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Rose Twp Trustee Philip Allmen (R) No Response Teresa Blaska (R) No Response Springfield Twp Treasurer Marilee Carstens (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Jamie L. Dubre (R) No Response Glen Noble (R) No Response Springfield Twp Trustee Marc Cooper (R) No Response Rose Twp Constable Judy Hensler (R) No Response David A. Allemon, Jr. (R) No Response Dave Hopper (R) No Response Emile Bair (R) No Response Craig Spicer (R) No Response Denny Vallad (R) No Response Royal Oak Twp Supervisor David W. Ford, Jr. (D) No Response Waterford Twp Supervisor Cary M. Junior (D) No Response John A. Scott (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Delwayne Owens (D) No Response Gary Wall (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Donna Squalls (D) No Response Tom Wilhelm (R) No Response

Royal Oak Twp Clerk Waterford Twp Clerk Janice Terrell Brinkley (D) No Response Julie Brown (R) No Response Gwendolyn W. Turner (D) No Response Sue Camilleri (R) No Response Rita Holloway-Irwin (D) No Response Royal Oak Twp Treasurer Cynthia A. Phillips (D) No Response Waterford Twp Treasurer Margaret Birch (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Royal Oak Twp Trustee Cherie Anderson (D) No Response Waterford Twp Trustee Karen D. Ballard (D) No Response Anthony Barolotta (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Jolie Dixon (D) No Response Linda Hardacre (R) No Response Patrick W. Harbin, Sr. (D) No Response Michael Healy (R) No Response Richard D. Miles (D) No Response Karen Joliat (R) No Response Kim S. Tillery (D) N Y Y Y N Y Y Y Y N Matt Marko (R) No Response Steve Thomas (R) No Response Southfield Twp Supervisor Kent Douglas (D) No Response Phillip Schmitt (R) No Response Donna F. Kelley (D) No Response Matthew K. McClure (D) No Response Robin McGregor (D) No Response Southfield Twp Clerk Sharon Tischler (R) No Response

Southfield Twp Treasurer Janet Mooney (R) No Response

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West Bloomfield Twp Supervisor Steven Kaplan (D) No Response Sam Logan Khaleghi (D) No Response

West Bloomfield Twp Clerk Debbie Binder (D) No Response Mary Schulman (D) No Response Cathy Shaughnessy (D) No Response

West Bloomfield Twp Treasurer Muhommed Hussain (D) No Response Gary Morof (D) No Response Saturday, October 22, 2016 Teri Adelberg Weingarden (D) No Response LIFESPAN’s Annual Pro-Life Brunch West Bloomfield Twp Trustee Paul Karmo (R) No Response Don Perry (R) No Response Sheila Siegel Weissman (R) No Response Jim Manna (D) No Response Patty Richie (D) No Response Howard Rosenberg (D) No Response Featuring Igor Shpunt (D) No Response Diane Rosenfeld Swimmer (D) No Response Jason Negri, Jonathan Warshay (D) No Response PLLC White Lake Twp Supervisor Rik Kowall (R) No Response Doug Hankes (D) No Response

White Lake Twp Clerk Chances are that everyone Terry Lilley (R) No Response Every person will some day face medical Matt Sprader (R) No Response will some day face medical issues

issues asas they the nearend ofthe life end nears. of their life. White Lake Twp Treasurer Mike Roman (R) No Response ComeCome and and findfind out whatwhat toto expectexpect and and howhow to to protect protect yourself yourself andand loved loved ones. ones. White Lake Twp Trustee Frank James Cavanaugh (R) No Response Martin Cirulik (R) No Response Peter Piccinato (R) No Response Michael C. Powell (R) No Response Mark Ross (R) No Response Scott Ruggles (R) No Response We are still finalizing the place where we Liz Fessler Smith (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Andrea C. Voorheis (R) No Response will have this important event.

✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ Watch for the registration forms and additional information in the next LIFESPAN News!

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U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 31st District State Representative Austin Negipe (R) No Response 9th Congressional District Lisa Valerio-Nowc (R) No Response Christopher R. Morse (R) No Response Michael Brewington (D) No Response Sander Levin (D) No Response William J. Sowerby (D) No Response

10th Congressional District Tony Forlini (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y 32nd District State Representative Pamela Hornberger (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Paul Mitchell (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Michael Shmina (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Phillip Pavlov (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Justin Tranchita (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Alan Sanborn (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Paul Manley (D) No Response David VanAssche (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Frank Accavitti, Jr. (D) No Response 33rd District State Representative Colleen Carl (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y STATE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Julianne Cusumano (R) No Response 18th District State Representative Charles Karafa (R) Y* Y Y Y Y* Y * Y Y * Renata Polonaise (R) No Response Mel Koch (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Steven Joseph Fleck (D) No Response Steven Joseph Stoll (R) No Response Paul R. Francis (D) No Response Jeff Yaroch (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Kevin Hertel (D) No Response Yani Warda (D) No Response

22nd District State Representative 36th District State Representative Jeff Bonnell (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y N Y Y Peter J. Lucido (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y John Chirkun (D) No Response Diane Young (D) No Response Nicole Reid (D) No Response PROSECUTING ATTORNEY 24th District State Representative Michael R. Wrathell (R) No Response Steve Marino (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Eric J. Smith (D) No Response Arzo F. Smith (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y N Y Y Daryl L. Smith (R) No Response Dana Camphous-Peterson (D) No Response SHERIFF Philip Neumeyer (R) No Response Paul M. Smith (R) No Response 25th District State Representative Anthony Wickersham (D) No Response Ronald Simon Albers (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Steve Naumovski (R) Y Y Y Y Y* Y/N* Y Y Y Y Jacqueline Sproles (D) No Response CLERK/REGISTER OF DEEDS Henry Yanez (D) No Response Sylvia Grot (R) No Response Debera Guenther (R) No Response Karen A. Spranger (R) No Response 28th District State Representative Julie Ann Williams (R) Y Y Y Y Y* Y Y Y Y Y* Antoine M. Davison (R) No Response Denise Doherty (D) No Response Patrick Green (D) No Response Fred Miller (D) No Response Paul M. Kardasz (D) No Response Paul Wojno (D) No Response Lori M. Stone (D) No Response Mike Westphal (D) No Response TREASURER Larry Rocca (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y 30th District State Representative Erin A. Stahl (R) No Response Joseph Bogdan (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Paul Viar (R) No Response Diana Farrington (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y N Derek E. Miller (D) No Response Jackie Ryan (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Michael Shallal (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Michael R. Notte (D) No Response PUBLIC WORKS COMMISSIONER John Spica (D) No Response Joseph M. Hunt (R) No Response Candice S. Miller (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Anthony Marrocco (D) No Response

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MACOMB COUNTY COMMISSIONERS 10th District County Commissioner Greg Fedon (R) No Response 1st District County Commissioner Linda Burns Torp (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Danita Buchholtz-Feirstein (R) No Response Michael A. Boyle (D) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Andrey Duzyj (D) No Response Raymond D. Contesti (D) No Response ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ Jimmy Gwizdala (D) No Response 2nd District County Commissioner Robert A. Leonetti (D) No Response Ronald C. Michals (R) Y* Y* Y* Y Y* Y/N* Y N Y* Y* Matt Wojcik (D) No Response Marvin E. Sauger (D) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y 11th District County Commissioner 3rd District County Commissioner Mark Henry (R) No Response Ryan Hurd (R) No Response Kathy Tocco (D) No Response Veronica Klinefelt (D) No Response 12th District County Commissioner 4th District County Commissioner Jeff Ford (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Ron Babin (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y — Y Y James M. Perna (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Norbert Golembiewski (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Bob Smith (D) No Response Joseph V. Romano (R) No Response Joel Thomas (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Liz Sierawski (D) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y 13th District County Commissioner Frank Cusumano (R) No Response Leon Drolet (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y 5th District County Commissioner Anthony D. Giglio (R) No Response Maria Grot (R) No Response Joe Sabatini (R) No Response Roger Lonsway (R) No Response Arnold Slominski (R) No Response Robert Mijac (D) No Response Martha O’Kray (D) No Response John Myers III (D) No Response

Macomb County continued on page 18 6th District County Commissioner James Louis Carabelli (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Ken Reid (D) No Response

7th District County Commissioner Don Brown (R) No Response Patricia Leitzel (D) No Response

8th District County Commissioner Phil Kraft (R) No Response Anne Nicolazzo (R) No Response Paul Esposito (D) No Response David R. Lusk (D) No Response

9th District County Commissioner Douglas M. Trost (R) No Response Mark Brewer (D) No Response Elizabeth Ann Lucido (D) No Response

Abortion is legal because babies can’t vote. ~ Joseph Bonkowski ~

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Armada Twp Supervisor Chesterfield Twp Treasurer Donald L. Eison (R) No Response Paul S. Lafata (R) No Response Al Goetzinger (R) No Response Linda Hartman (D) No Response John W. Paterek (R) No Response Chesterfield Twp Trustee Armada Twp Clerk Hank Anderson (R) No Response Monica Job (R) Y Y Y Y Y* Y Y Y Y Y Brian Scott DeMuynck (R) No Response Mary K. Swiacki (R) No Response David Joseph (R) No Response Kathy D. Vosburg (R) No Response Christine Bell (D) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Armada Twp Treasurer Jon DeRoo (D) No Response Valerie Manninen (R) N Y Y Y Y Y Y N N Y John Grivas (D) No Response Peg Smith (R) No Response

Clinton Twp Supervisor Armada Twp Trustee Robert J. Cannon (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Bob Abraham (R) No Response Dean Joseph Reynolds (D) No Response Camille Finlay (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Clinton Twp Clerk Bruce Twp Supervisor Kim Meltzer (R) No Response Richard Cory (R) No Response George J. Sobah (D) No Response Mike Fillbrook (R) No Response Tadd Siglow (R) No Response Clinton Twp Treasurer Phil Rode (R) No Response Bruce Twp Clerk Paul Gieleghem (D) No Response Susan Brockmann (R) No Response Trese Servitto-Smith (R) No Response Clinton Twp Trustee Joe Aragona (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Bruce Twp Treasurer Cathy Kirk (R) No Response Dana Jenuwine (R) No Response Leon Melise (R) No Response Deborah S. Obrecht (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Jim Carlone (D) No Response Ray Hernandez (D) No Response Bruce Twp Trustee Ernest Hornung (D) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Mark Falker (R) No Response Mike Keys (D) No Response Paul Okoniewski (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Philip Kurczewski (D) No Response Kenneth Pearl (D) No Response Jenifer Jo West (D) No Response Chesterfield Twp Supervisor Diane Zontini (D) No Response Daniel J. Acciavatti (R) No Response Joe Miller (R) No Response Michael E. Lovelock (D) No Response Harrison Twp Supervisor Kenneth Verkest (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y James Senstock (D) No Response Chesterfield Twp Clerk Cindy Berry (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Loraine DeMuynck (R) No Response Harrison Twp Clerk Patrick M. Militello (R) No Response Adam Wit (R) No Response Michele Ficht (D) No Response James Wietecha (D) No Response Wendy Jones (D) No Response David Alan Wilemski (D) No Response Harrison Twp Treasurer Darrin S. York (R) No Response Chris Burden (D) No Response

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Harrison Twp Trustee Mount Clemens Commission (non-partisan) Brian W. Batkins (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Michael Bernier No Response Bill Bitonti (R) No Response Bill Ford No Response Scott Cortese (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y N Y N Laura L. Fournier No Response Michael H. Rice (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Marshall Rosquin (R) No Response Bill Servial (R) No Response Ray Twp Supervisor Joseph Jarzyna (R) No Response Larry Tomenello (R) No Response Dan Jensenius (D) No Response William Bardill (D) No Response David Bratto (D) No Response Ray Twp Clerk Paula Artman (R) No Response Lenox Twp Supervisor Lori R. Lascoe (R) No Response Chris Boyd (D) No Response Ron Trombly (D) No Response Ray Twp Treasurer Rita Harman (R) No Response Lenox Twp Clerk Douglas C. Stier (R) No Response LuAnne Kandell (D) No Response Joe Marino (D) No Response Ray Twp Trustee Charles Bohm (R) No Response Lenox Twp Treasurer Betty L. Grader (R) No Response Kathy Riedel Honold (D) N Y Y Y N Y Y N Y N Tom Hancock (R) No Response Marnie Ickes (D) No Response Richmond Twp Supervisor Lenox Twp Trustee Cindi Greenia (R) No Response Thomas Scott Clifford (D) No Response Stephen Murphy (R) No Response Michelle Gurley (D) No Response Karen A. Turchi (D) No Response Richmond Twp Clerk Catherine LaFontaine (R) No Response Macomb Twp Supervisor Penny Tibbits (R) No Response Janet Dunn (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Mark H. Grabow (R) No Response Richmond Twp Treasurer Deborah J. Davidson (R) No Response Macomb Twp Clerk Robert Szalka (R) No Response Charles T. Missig (R) No Response Kristi Pozzi (R) No Response Mickey D. Todd (R) No Response Richmond Twp Trustee Christopher DeVos (R) No Response Macomb Twp Treasurer Vern John Kulman (R) No Response Karen M. Goodhue (R) No Response Shelby Twp Supervisor Richard Batchelder (R) No Response Macomb Twp Trustee Rick Stathakis (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Dino Bucci (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Timothy F. Bussineau (R) No Response Clifford W. Freitas (R) No Response Shelby Twp Clerk Roger M. Krzeminski (R) No Response Stanley Grot (R) No Response Nancy J. Nevers (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Michael J. O’Lear (D) No Response Shelby Twp Treasurer Michael Flynn (R) No Response Nick Nightingale (R) No Response

Macomb County continued on page 20

LIFESPAN NEWS F July 2016 19 MACOMB COUNTY ✔ Candidate Questionnaire Responses KEY: Y = YES N = NO * = with qualifications/comments (call LIFESPAN 734-524-0162) the Department of Community Health, the Michigan Jobs CANDIDATE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Commission, and military recruitment centers also provide voter registration services. Shelby Twp Trustee You may also register to vote by mail—forms are Anthony Apone (R) No Response Julius Dallo (R) No Response available at your local clerk’s office or from the Secretary Grant G. Golasa (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y of State web site. If you register to vote by mail, and you John Vermeulen (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y have moved to a new voting jurisdiction or are registering Vince Viviano (R) No Response for the very first time, you must vote in person in the first Lynn M. Wilhelm (R) No Response Douglas C. Wozniak (R) No Response election in which you participate. The only exceptions are if you are 60 years old or older, disabled as defined by law Washington Twp Supervisor or temporarily living overseas. Michele M. Milam (R) No Response You also have the option of registering to vote when Dan O’Leary (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y you renew your driver license by mail. Eligible drivers receive a voter registration application in the mail with Washington Twp Clerk their driver license renewal information. Kathy Bosheers (R) No Response As you can see, there are several options for you to Laura Rossell (R) No Response choose from when registering to vote. But no matter where or how you register, you will vote in your assigned precinct Washington Twp Treasurer in your hometown. Joe Fortuna (R) No Response Mike Nicley (R) No Response Absentee Voting Washington Twp Trustee F Download an absentee ballot application at Stanley Babinski (R) No Response www.michigan.gov/sos Art Grimes (R) No Response F Send your absentee ballot request form to your clerk Abby Jacobson (R) No Response Harold Miller (R) No Response at: www.michigan.gov/sos Brandon Noll (R) No Response Absentee voter ballots are available for all elections. Sebastian Sam Previti (R) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y They provide voters with a convenient method for cast- Bob Randall (R) No Response ing a ballot when they are unable to attend the polls on Charrae Trocki (R) No Response election day. ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ As a registered voter, you may obtain an absentee voter ballot if you are: F age 60 years old or older F unable to vote without assistance at the polls Register and Vote! F expecting to be out of town on election day Never underestimate the power of the ballot. F in jail awaiting arraignment or trial One of the greatest strengths of America is that all citi- F unable to attend the polls due to religious reasons zens are provided a voice through the voting booth. And F appointed to work as an election inspector in every vote does count! Many an election has been won by a precinct outside of your precinct of residence. a handful of votes or even just one vote. A person who registers to vote by mail must vote in But before you can vote in an election, you must be person in the first election in which he or she participates. registered. Registering to vote is an easy process. In fact, The restriction does not apply to overseas voters, voters Michigan was the first state in the nation to implement who are disabled or voters who are 60 years of age or “motor/voter” registration, allowing residents to register to vote at any Secretary of State branch office. Today, over older. (Voting in person on one governmental level clears 88 percent of all eligible voters are registered. the restriction on the other levels. For example, if a voter To register, you must be a U.S. citizen, at least 18 years old subject to the restriction votes in person at a school election, by election day and a Michigan resident. Any Secretary of the voter would be free to obtain an absentee ballot for the State branch office or county, city or township clerk’s office first state election in which he or she wishes to participate.) can register you. In addition, specified agencies providing services through the the Department of Human Services, continued on page 24

20 LIFESPAN NEWS F July 2016 JUDICIAL CANDIDATE SURVEY

LIFESPAN sent the following three-question survey to each candidate for judicial office in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb Counties, including Appeals Court, Circuit Court, District Court and Probate Court. Candidates were also asked to state, in 50 words or less, their judicial philosophy as it relates to matters of statutory interpretation. Statements provided by judicial candidates are on file at LIFESPAN’s Main Office. Please call for further information.

The following questions are intended to canvas your judicial philosophy. These questions are not directed at any particular case that you may have previously ruled upon, are about to rule upon or may rule upon in the future.

1. Which of the following groups of United States Supreme Court Justices possess a judicial philosophy that is closest to your own? Please mark your selection. A B C D A. Former Justice Antonin Scalia and Justice Clarence Thomas B. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy and former Justice Sandra Day O’Connor C. Former Justice David Souter and former Justice John Paul Stevens D. Justice Ruth Bader Binsberg and Justice Stephen Breyer

2. Which book most closely captures your judicial philosophy? Please mark your selection. A B C D A. A Matter of Interpretation, by Antonin Scalia B. Rights from Wrongs, by Alan Dershowitz C. Active Liberty, by Stephen Breyer D. Feminist Legal Theory: Readings in Law and Gender, edited by Katharine T. Bartlett and Roseanne Kennedy

3. Which statement most closely captures your judicial philosophy as it relates to matters of Constitutional interpretation? Please mark your selection. A B C D A. Our State and Federal Constitutions should be interpreted by ascertaining the original meaning of the words that make up these documents.

B. Our State and Federal Constitutions should be interpreted by ascertaining the current meaning of the words that make up these documents.

C. Our State and Federal Constitutions provide general outlines of societal goals. The interpretation of our Constitutions can change over time to reflect the changing views of society. Constitutional interpretation should not be so stringent as to preclude the flexibility needed in a changing society.

D. A judge ought not commit to methods of constitutional interpretation before a case is heard. A judge should consider the arguments of the litigants and select a method of constitutional interpretation that produces a fair and equitable result in each case before the court.

4. In 50 words or less, on the reverse side of this questionnaire, describe your judicial philosophy as it relates to matters of statutory interpretation.

NOTE: LIFESPAN is not a political organization and does not endorse candidates for election. We have surveyed the candidates as a service to our members. The questionnaires are on file at LIFESPAN’s Main Office for your perusal. If you need further verification on a candidate’s stand on these or other issues, please contact the candidate directly.

LIFESPAN NEWS F July 2016 21 JUDICIAL CANDIDATES WAYNE COUNTY ✔ JUDICIAL Candidate Questionnaire Responses KEY: V additional statement provided ­ (call LIFESPAN 734-524-0162)

JUDICIAL CANDIDATE 1 2 3 4V JUDICIAL CANDIDATE 1 2 3 4V

COURT OF APPEALS DISTRICT COURT 1st District 17th District Court Nicole James No Response Karen Khalil No Response Cynthia Diane Stephens No Response Kurtis T. Wilder No Response 19th District Court Abbie Bazzi No Response CIRCUIT COURT Susan A. Dabaja No Response Gene Hunt No Response 3rd Circuit E. Lynise Bryant-Weekes No Response 24th District Court Eric William Cholack No Response Richard Page No Response James R. Chylinski No Response Delicia Taylor Coleman No Response Rebekah R. Coleman No Response 25th District Court Felicia Courtright No Response David J. Zelenak No Response Melissa Anne Cox A A A V Matthew M. Evans No Response 30th District Court Wanda A. Evans No Response Brigette Officer-Hill No Response Robert Ficano No Response Patricia Susan Fresard No Response 33rd District Court Alexis A. Glendening No Response Jennifer Coleman Hesson No Response Tracy E. Green No Response David Alan Groner No Response Adel A. Harb No Response 34th District Court Cynthia Gray Hathaway No Response Brian A. Oakley No Response Thomas John Hathaway No Response Susan L Hubbard No Response 35th District Court Muriel Diane Hughes No Response Michael J. Gerou No Response James Humphries No Response Timothy M. Kenny No Response 36th District Court Kenneth J. King No Response Lydia Nance Adams No Response Michelle Letourneau-McAvoy No Response Christopher M. Blount No Response Karyn L. Macdonald No Response Richard J. Bowers, Jr. No Response Sheila Gibson Manning No Response Izetta F. Bright No Response Brian L. Morrow No Response Ruth C. Carter No Response Bruce Underwood Morrow No Response Kahlilia Yvette Davis No Response John A. Murphy No Response Deborah Geraldine Bledsoe Ford No Response Lita Helene Popke No Response Austin W. Garrett No Response Kelly Ann Ramsey A A A V Adrienne Hinnant-Johnson No Response Isaac Robinson No Response Kenyetta Stanford Jones No Response Ron D. Robinson No Response Kristine Longstreet No Response Suzette Samuels No Response B. Pennie Millender No Response Mark Slavens No Response Cylenthia LaToye Miller No Response Martha M. Snow No Response David A. Perkins No Response Brian R. Sullivan A A A V Millicent Sherman No Response Regina Thomas No Response Coral Watt No Response Michael Thomas Woodyard No Response Larry D. Williams, Jr. No Response

PROBATE COURT Lisa Marie Neilson No Response Lawrence J. Paolucci A A A V

22 LIFESPAN NEWS F July 2016 JUDICIAL CANDIDATES OAKLAND COUNTY ✔ JUDICIAL Candidate Questionnaire Responses KEY: V additional statement provided ­ (call LIFESPAN 734-524-0162)

JUDICIAL CANDIDATE 1 2 3 4V JUDICIAL CANDIDATE 1 2 3 4V

APPEALS COURT 51st District Court Andrea Dean A A A V 2nd District Todd Fox No Response Colleen A. O’Brien No Response Mary Mara No Response

CIRCUIT COURT 52nd District Court - 1st Division Gary Klein No Response 6th District Circuit Court V Rae Lee Chabot No Response David Law A A A Hala Jarbou No Response Cheryl A. Matthews No Response V 52nd District Court - 2nd Division Daniel Patrick O’Brien A A A Kelley Kostin No Response Jeffery S. Matis No Response Lorie Savin No Response Victoria Valentine No Response 52nd District Court - 3rd Division Nancy Tolwin Carniak No Response

DISTRICT COURT 52nd District Court - 4th Division 43rd District Court Kristen Nielsen Hartig No Response Joseph Longo No Response PROBATE COURT Kathleen Ryan No Response 46th District Court Jennifer Callaghan No Response Cynthia M. Arvant No Response Karen Geibel A A A V Dorothy Dean No Response Kameshia D. Gant No Response Marc S. Herschfus No Response ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ Eman H. Jajonie-Daman No Response Devlin K. Scarber No Response To view the Public Ballot for YOUR county, 47th District Court Marla Parker No Response jurisdiction and precinct, go to: webapps.sos.state.mi.us/MVIC/ 48th District Court SelectPublicBallot.aspx Marc Barron No Response and follow the prompts to see the actual ballot that YOU will see on election day. 50th District Court Preston G. Thomas No Response

It is not sufficient to think that, since candidate X takes the “right position” on other issues such as the economy, foreign relations, defense, etc., but only goes wrong on abortion, one can in good conscience, vote for him/her. Abortion deals with the first and most basic human right, without which there is nothing left to talk about. ~ Matthew Habiger, OSB ~

LIFESPAN NEWS F July 2016 23 JUDICIAL CANDIDATES MACOMB COUNTY ✔ JUDICIAL Candidate Questionnaire Responses KEY: V additional statement provided ­ (call LIFESPAN 734-524-0162)

JUDICIAL CANDIDATE 1 2 3 4V Absentee Voting continued from page 20 APPEALS COURT 2nd District Requesting an Absentee Voter Ballot Colleen A. O’Brien No Response Your request for an absentee voter ballot must be in writing and can be submitted to your city or township CIRCUIT COURT clerk. (For assistance in obtaining the address of your city 16th Circuit or township clerk, see www.Michigan.gov/vote). Your Richard L. Caretti No Response request must include one of the six statutory reasons stated Beth deBaptiste-Follis No Response Teri Lynn Dennings No Response above and your signature. You must request an absentee Carl J. Marlinga A A A V voter ballot by mailing the application, a letter, a postcard, Rachel Rancilio A A A V Michael E. Servitto No Response or a pre-printed application form obtained from your local Joseph Toia No Response clerk’s office. Requests to have an absentee voter ballot Armand Velardo No Response mailed to you must be received by your clerk no later than Kathy Viviano No Response 2 p.m. the Saturday before the election. DISTRICT COURT Once your request is received by the local clerk, your signature on the request will be checked against your voter 37th District Suzanne Faunce No Response registration record before a ballot is issued. You must be a registered voter to receive an absentee ballot. Requests for 39th District absentee voter ballots are processed immediately. Absentee Catherine B. Steenland No Response voter ballots may be issued to you at your home address or any address outside of your city or township of residence. 41A District After receiving your absentee voter ballot, you have Stephen S. Sierawski No Response until 8 p.m. on election day to complete the ballot and 41B District return it to the clerk’s office. Your ballot will not be count- Carrie Lynn Fuca No Response ed unless your signature is on the return envelope and matches your signature on file. If you received assistance voting the ballot, then the signature of the person who helped you must also be on the return envelope. Only you, ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ a family member or person residing in your household, a mail carrier, or election official is authorized to deliver your signed absentee voter ballot to your clerk’s office. If an emergency, such as a sudden illness or family death prevents you from reaching the polls on election day, you may request an emergency absentee voter bal- lot. Requests for an emergency ballot must be submitted after the deadline for regular absentee voter ballots has passed but before 4 p.m. on election day. The emergency must have occurred at a time which made it impossible for you to apply for a regular absentee voter ballot. Your local clerk will have more information about emergency absentee voter ballots. F

24 LIFESPAN NEWS F July 2016 Right to Life – LIFESPAN 2017 “MOVEMENT IN MOTION” Youth Bus Trip to Washington, DC for the Annual March for Life

Dates: depart evening of January 26th, arrive home morning of January 29th 7th-12th Grade Students and College Students are Invited. 7th/8th grade students must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. Cost is $185.00 per person Includes bus trip, host church for Friday night, and 2 breakfasts, 1 lunch and 1 dinner (two extra meals than last year) Add an extra $9 if you do not have the required LIFESPAN beanie hat that we will use for identification in the crowd. We will order one for you! Registration will begin September 1st and end October 31st (or sooner depending on how quick the LIFESPAN buses fill up). For further information about the trip and to get registration forms when they become available in August, please e-mail Lynn Gura, Youth Director, at [email protected] and she will respond! If you need to speak to her by phone, call the office at 248-816-1546.

LIFESPAN NEWS F July 2016 25 LIFESPAN Chapter News ®

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Entertainment Books city government website. Research the candidates. One It’s time to SAVE! We are taking pre-orders for the way to do this is to see who responded to LIFESPAN’s 2017 Entertainment Books with the 2017 Premier Dining candidate survey and what their responses were. Don’t Books at the Wayne County Chapter, NOW! hesitate to simply call the candidate’s office and ask them if As a special bonus, when you pay your $30, you will they are pro-life and if they feel there are any circumstances also receive the 2016 Entertainment Book and the 2016 where abortion should be legal. Premier Dining Book which are good until December 30, Secondly, realize that you are not asking about a policy, 2016. That is FOUR books for the price of one! Supplies or how something will be accomplished, but a principle. of the 2016 Books are extremely limited and are given A principle that states that all innocent life should be out with pre-order on a first-come-first-serve basis. protected and respected: conception until natural death. Activate the card that comes in the book and use the There really is no way to compromise on a principle. Either “Entertainment Book app” on a smartphone to really you protect and respect innocent human life or you don’t. get amazing savings! Don’t have a smartphone? You The manner in which you go about protecting those lives still can use the paper coupons that are is up for debate; that is a policy. in the E-Book! You could also pass the Finally, make sure that you VOTE! Whether by absentee card on to a son/daughter, grandchild ballot or in person, your vote matters! The people who take or friend who has a smartphone so public office, regardless if it is a city, state or federal position, that you both benefit! Last year, influence what happens in people’s lives. They create the I saved over $175 dollars before I policies that can potentially impact your principles. Make Wayne County Wayne stopped tracking. It’s a great way to sure that you elect the people who reflect your principles. save money and support LIFESPAN! Cast your VOTE 32540 Schoolcraft Rd., Ste. 210, Livonia, MI 48150-4305 What can a pro-life person do as we approach this Phone 734-422-6230 • Fax 734-422-8116 e-mail: [email protected] election? First of all, educate yourself! Get a copy of a Office Hours: Monday-Thursday 9-2:30; Friday Closed sample ballot, either in person at your city clerk’s office, Eileen Brandt, Director or online at the Secretary of State website or your local Anne Marie Morin, Office Assistant

26 LIFESPAN NEWS F July 2016 living with a friend’s grandmother, has decided not to Wee Care give her baby up for adoption and is determined to be a Dear Friends, good mom. Along with New Life (lots So many heartbreaking stories that affect so many of it!), this past Spring also families. You will never know how many lives you have brought a few baby showers touched and what a difference your love, generosity and for my precious Wee Care prayers make. babies, and I can’t thank you enough! We received adorable In addition to the material goods, you also give our sleepers, onesies, diapers, wipes, crib sheets, baby towels, moms the gifts of hope (that things will get better), peace beautiful handmade afghans, and so much more. My of mind (that their babies immediate needs are being gratitude is beyond words! provided) and love (that strangers care about them and Each year, we provide over 600 layettes and packages their precious child!). and we distribute over 5400 sleepers and onesies, 3,000 May God bless you all! Have a beautiful, relaxing receiving blankets, 600 packages of diapers, and that is summer (and if you get bored—remember us at garage just a few of the items we give out. I don’t know what sales and clearance sales when you are keeping cool at my little ones would do without your love and support! the mall!) Love, Karen As I said, there was a lot of “New Life” to celebrate and provide for. So many phone calls, so many pleas for help PS: We do have an urgent need for empty copy-paper and so many mothers in desperate situations. boxes with lids to store seasonal baby clothes! (Please call This past week alone, we helped over thirty moms! the office for further description.) One mother of two little ones, had a house fire and lost everything. A Program of Right to Life - LIFESPAN Educational Fund Another mother gave birth to twins. They came early, 32540 Schoolcraft Rd., Ste. 100, Livonia, MI 48150-4305 dad had lost his job and with an eleven-year-old in the Phone: 734-524-0165 • Fax: 734-524-0166 family—there were no hand-me-downs! Office Hours: By appointment; Karen Patrosso, Director We also helped a teen, whose parents made her leave All material and monetary donations to Wee Care are tax-deductible. Checks their home when she refused to have an abortion. She is must be made payable to Right to Life - LIFESPAN Educational Fund.

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LIFESPAN NEWS F July 2016 27 Supreme Court Overturns Texas Law

By Steven Ertelt Breyer wrote that “the surgical-center requirement, like he Supreme Court on June 27 issued its biggest rul- the admitting privileges requirement, provides few, if any, ing on abortion since upholding the federal ban on health benefits for women, poses a substantial obstacle partial-birth abortions in the Gonzalez decision. The to women seeking abortions and constitutes an ‘undue TSupreme Court reversed part of a pro-life Texas law that burden’ on their constitutional right to do so.” protects women’s health and has also saved the lives of Justice Clarence Thomas, who authored the dissenting thousands of unborn children and closed abortion clinics opinion, wrote, “Today the Court strikes down two state that can’t ensure adequate protection for women. statutory provisions in all of their applications, at the behest The high court ruled 5-3 against the Texas pro-life law of abortion clinics and doctors. That decision exemplifies with Justice Stephen Breyer writing the decision. Justices the Court’s troubling tendency ‘to bend the rules when Anthony Kennedy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor any effort to limit abortion, or even to speak in opposition and Elena Kagan joined Breyer. Chief Justice John Roberts to abortion, is at issue.’” and Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented. He continued, “…today’s decision creates an abortion Breyer’s majority opinion for the court held that the exception to ordinary rules of res judicata, ignores compel- regulations are medically unnecessary and unconstitu- ling evidence that Texas’ law imposes no unconstitutional tionally limit a woman’s right to an abortion. burden, and disregards basic principles of the severability The 5-3 decision in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt doctrine. I write separately to emphasize how today’s shows the paramount importance of judge’s in this year’s decision perpetuates the Court’s habit of applying differ- presidential election. In approving the appeal from abor- ent rules to different constitutional rights—especially the tion companies, the Supreme Court did not allow Texas’ putative right to abortion.” pro-life law to stand. John Seago, the legislative director for Texas Right to At issue in the ruling were two provisions—that abor- Life, said the Supreme Court ruling will have a terrible tion clinics meet the same building standards as ambu- effect on similar pro-life laws in other states that seek to latory surgical centers (ASCs) and that abortionists have protect women and unborn children. admitting privileges at a nearby hospital for situations of “This dangerous SCOTUS ruling allows the abortion medical emergencies. industry to challenge any safety laws by threatening to Texas’ law is arguably responsible for saving the lives close rather than follow law,” Seago said. of tens of thousands of unborn babies by closing abortion Steve Aden, an attorney with Alliance Defending Free- clinics that are unable to protect women’s health. The laws dom, said the ruling puts women’s health at risk. In his protects women’s health and welfare by requiring abortion comments to LifeNews.com, he said: clinics to meet the kinds of medical and safety standards “Abortionists shouldn’t be given a free pass to elude that legitimate medical centers meet. medical requirements that everyone else is required to

28 LIFESPAN NEWS F July 2016 follow. We are disappointed that the Supreme Court has could delay a final decision for a few more years, until it ruled against a law so clearly designed to protect the health becomes clear whether clinics remain closed, as opponents and safety of women in the wake of the Kermit Gosnell of the law predict, or whether they manage to reopen. scandal. The law’s requirements were commonsense pro- Kennedy has supported some abortion limits in the tections that ensured the maximum amount of protection past, including the federal ban on partial-birth abortion. for women, who deserve to have their well-being treated But how far he’s willing to let states go in tamping down by government as a higher priority than the bottom line of on abortion is not clear. abortionists. Any abortion facilities that don’t meet basic Roger Severino, director of the Heritage Foundation’s health and safety standards are not facilities that anyone DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society, watched the should want to remain open.” oral arguments and said he thought they went as expected. Abortion advocates challenged the law and those facility He is hopeful that Justice Kennedy will side with Texas in regulations and hospital admitting requirements, arguing upholding the law. that these clinics should not be held to the same health “We had the liberal/conservative breakdown in the standards as other outpatient ambulatory facilities. The Court that you would expect among the justices, but abortion businesses suing to stop the pro-life law argued Justice Kennedy, in the few questions he asked, showed that the effect of the law will be to close many abortion some hesitation about courts second-guessing the state’s clinics, thus creating an “undue burden” on the right of ability to regulate abortion clinics,” Severino said. “Even women to have an abortion. Justice Breyer acknowledged the state’s intent in regulat- But Attorney General Paxton reminded the justices that, ing abortion clinics was a legitimate desire to help further “Petitioners ignore the fact that under the Fifth Circuit’s women’s health and not for some nefarious purpose.” decision, which granted as-applied relief in McAllen, every “Justice Alito repeatedly challenged the plaintiffs to metropolitan area with an abortion facility operating today point to the evidence that clinics closed because of these in Texas will still have an operating abortion facility if the regulations as opposed to some other reason, and asked ruling takes effect.” for any evidence that the abortion industry cannot adapt Paxton wrote, “States are given wide discretion to pass to the new standards,” he added. medical regulations.” Paxton explained that the admitting Severino emphasized “this case was about the ability privileges requirement had already been upheld by courts of Texas to increase the health and safety standards at in a separate lawsuit which “correctly conclude[d] that abortion clinics. The abortion industry should not get a the challenged provisions of HB2 do not facially impose special exemption and Texas is well within its rights to act.” an undue burden.” The Supreme Court considered two explicit questions Petitioners ask this Court to depart from a quarter-cen- in the Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstadt case over the tury of this Court’s abortion jurisprudence by judging for Texas law: itself the medical effectiveness of HB2’s requirements and (1) Whether, when applying the “undue burden” stan- balancing it against the burdens purportedly caused by dard of Planned Parenthood v. Casey, a court errs by refusing HB2. In short, petitioners would have this Court serve as to consider whether and to what extent laws that restrict “the country’s ex officio medical board with powers to abortion for the stated purpose of promoting health actually approve or disapprove medical and operative practices serve the government’s interest in promoting health; and and standards throughout the United States”—a role this (2) whether the United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Court has specifically declined to assume. Circuit erred in concluding that this standard permits “[The abortion providers] wish to proceed as if their Texas to enforce, in nearly all circumstances, laws that first lawsuit against HB 2 never happened,” the state at- would cause a significant reduction in the availability torneys continued. “But they litigated that case to a final of abortion services while failing to advance the State’s judgment, and arguments and evidence they chose not to interest in promoting health—or any other valid interest. present there are barred.” Both of these questions deal with the “undue burden” Texas Solicitor General Scott Keller argued the case standard from Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which has been before the court earlier this year and he was immediately used to challenge every type of Pro-Life legislation across met with skepticism from the pro-abortion members of the country since 1992. Whether the abortion industry is the high court. challenging informed consent laws (like Texas’ Sonogram “According to you, the slightest health improvement Bill in 2011), prohibitions on late abortions (as in Arizona is enough to burden the lives of a million women,” Justice in 2014), or higher medical standards (as in the current Sonia Sotomayor told him. challenge to House Bill 2), the plaintiffs use the vague and Justice Anthony Kennedy is the swing vote on almost undefined “undue burden” standard in all cases. any abortion case and he appeared sympathetic to the The Supreme Court has not directly addressed the issue argument that abortion clinics should be expected to of abortion since 2007, when the Court upheld the federal comply with sensible medical standards if given enough Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in Gonzales v. Carhart. time, according to the Washington Examiner: —LifeNews.com, June 27, 2016 “Regulations sometimes take years to adopt,” Kennedy said. At another point, he suggested the lower district court

LIFESPAN NEWS F July 2016 29 From the President’s Desk Donations have been made— In Honor of the 95th Birthday of: My Dear Pro-Life Friends, Stella Konopka think you will agree that this is a very strange elec- Given by: Marge and Doug Bradley Family tion. I hope this issue will help you to make the right decisions when entering the voting booth. In Loving Memory of: IThe challenge this year is to decide who best rep- resents our own philosophy on life issues. Who will pro- Paul Welday tect human life from conception to natural death? Given by: Eric and Eileen Brandt The one thing I have learned through these 46 years working in the pro-life movement is that there is no per- Shirley O’Connell fect candidate running in a government election. It is im- Given by: Margaret Hessling portant that we vet every candidate and vote for the ones Wayne County Board Members who closely resemble our pro-life views. Your vote is important—not voting could be a vote for Peter Riccardo the pro-death candidate. Given by: LIFESPAN Inc. Board Members I understand that there are issues other than the life LIFESPAN Oakland/Macomb Board Members issues. But, the issue of LIFE is the one issue that is para- LIFESPAN Wayne Board Members mount! If one is not allowed LIFE, then what do the pe- Diane and Jerry Fagelman ripheral needs of the human person matter? Diane Trombley Over three thousand human lives are lost by abortion Eileen and Eric Brandt in this country every day. These people will not need social, medical or educational services. They will never Gladys Kasprowicz need social programs—they are no more! Given by: Judith Ellsworth So, if you vote for a person who promotes abortion, assisted suicide or euthanasia, you are voting for the Elena C. Tilley ultimate injustice—being killed because of progressive Given by: Friends and Family laws—instituted by those who have the power of a vote. Just look at the past forty-six years? What has hap- pened to our traditional values and the undermining Richard Roscoe of the Constitution? Our founding fathers founded this Given by: Diane Trombley country on the premise that all people have a right to LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. Theodore Konopka Your pro-life vote counts!! Don’t waste it!! Given by: Marge and Doug Bradley Family May God give us the courage to continue the good fight for LIFE! Donations may be made in memory of loved ones who have died; a memorial card will be sent by Lifespan in your name to the family of the deceased. Donations may also be Diane Fagelman, President made to honor someone special, and near and dear to you, for a particular occasion, or just because… You can live on after death by helping those whose lives are threatened by abortion, euthanasia or infanticide. A bequest in your will to Right to Life - LIFESPAN will be used to save the lives of many through our efforts. Send donations to your local LIFESPAN office.

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30 LIFESPAN NEWS F July 2016 Oh brother: Now “Euthanasia” is “Dignicide” By Wesley J. Smith he euthanasia movement has always been about finding words and terms to mask the harshness of killing as a Tresponse to suffering. Indeed, the word “euthanasia”—good death—did not originally refer to killing. Rather, it meant dying peacefully in a state of grace. Now, the suicide fanatic Faye Girsh—former head of the Hemlock Society—reporting from a convention of the World Federation of Right to Die Societies, says the psychiatrist that brought euthanasia to the mentally ill in Netherlands has coined an obscuring word to replace LIFESPAN’s Garage Sale was a huge success! All “euthanasia” in the movement’s lexicon. proceeds go to the Educational Fund: The Wee Care Out- From her summary: reach Program and the Youth Outreach Program. The Boudewijn Chabot (de Einder) disclosed the name of weather was wonderful and the location, right next to the patient whose death 25 years ago brought him into a school, brought in a lot of people. Thanks goes out to conflict with the Dutch Supreme Court and opened the the Garage Sale Committee: Anne Marie Morin, Andrew way for help for psychiatric patients. He is now using the Reiff, Christina Hansen and Diane Fagelman and all the term ”dignicide” (which my spell checker is rejecting) as wonderful volunteers who came to help set-up the sale, the word promoted by some to describe a self-selected run the sale and clean-up after the sale. A special thanks rational and dignified death. goes out to Ray and Jane Jakubiec, who gave us the lo- You can call a dung beetle a butterfly—but it is still a cation, helped price and sell the items and the clean-up! dung beetle. They were wonderful! —Human Exceptionalism, May 26, 2016

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…and this is why they are the Pro-Life Generation! She Went to One of the Most Pro-Abortion Universities But Became Pro-Life, Here’s How By Micaiah Bilger and genocide, which supporters auren Galvan decided to keep an open mind about justified with claims that the- tar the abortion issue when she started her freshman geted groups of people were not year at Brown University in 2012. really people. LGalvan, a senior, recently wrote an op-ed for the Brown “Our right to life would not Daily Herald about how she began exploring the abortion depend on others’ opinions of us, issue as a young college student. She said she did not think but rather on the simple and indis- much about the issue in high school, and she decided to putable fact that we are all human change that it college. and that each human life deserves It was during a biology class at Brown when Galvan protection under the law,” Galvan came to the conclusion that unborn babies are human beings wrote. “This is the pro-life position who deserve the same right to life that other humans do. in a nutshell.” She wrote: Motivated by her conclusions, Galvan went on to found Ironically, coming to Brown, arguably the most liberal the Students for Life at Brown club. She said she can’t even school in the Ivy League, was the first step in my conversion imagine identifying with the “pro-choice” label that she to the pro-life cause. After taking BIOL 0320: “Vertebrate once did during her high school days. Embryology” with the late Marjorie Thompson ’74 PhD’79 “… for to say ‘I am pro-choice’ to other people is to P’02 P’07 P’09 P’12 P’15 P’16, who was associate dean of tell them that I would have or could have supported their biology, the spring semester of my freshman year, I pro- parents’ decisions to terminate their lives. To me, that is the foundly changed my disposition on human personhood, absolute equivalent of telling someone that his or her life and I became firmly pro-life. has neither meaning nor purpose,” Galvan continued. “All The scientific reality of fetal development first catalyzed human life has value, and it’s time we start protecting it.” this resolution. In every embryology textbook, I found—as Modern scientific evidence about human life has drawn you will find—irrefutable evidence that an individual many people to the conclusion that abortion is wrong. In human life begins at conception. At that point, a living 2013, pro-life writer Sarah Terzo shared a medical student’s organism with unique human DNA is created. This is testimony after witnessing an abortion. The man said he simply a scientific fact, and no amount of arguing from was troubled after watching the abortion as part of his pro-choicers can make it untrue. What they mean to say medical training, and said he could no longer call himself is that this fertilized embryo, though human and alive, pro-choice. He said he could not stop thinking about who is not yet a person and therefore not protected under the that aborted baby boy would have become if he had been category of human rights. allowed to live. Galvan then articulately explained the pro-life position These facts become clear when people seek the truth in her column and pointed out the danger of allowing about abortion. Human life begins at the moment of fertil- society to decide who is a “person” with rights and who ization, and every human being deserves the right to life. isn’t. She brought up the human rights abuses of slavery —LifeNews.com, May 18, 2016