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ELECTION ISSUE “College students sway Democrat and are more liberal than the rest of the population. It makes more sense for Democrats to come to campus than for Republicans.” - Matt Grossmann, director of the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research

Everything you need to know about the 2016 election

“I know (Clinton’s) not perfect, but I like her. I know that she has higher angels, and I believe that with Elizabeth Warren and Bernie (Sanders) kicking her ass, (she can) find those higher angels have wings.” - Cher, Musician

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“Donald Trump Jr. is the voice of conservative party that exemplifies what the conservative party is. We’re glad he is here to show what that message is to Michigan State University.” - Jeff Litten, chair of the MSU College Republicans

“(Trump’s economy and energy plans) are just designed to get America back to work, keep energy prices low and bring back prosperity to this country.” - Scott Hagerstrom, state director of the Michigan Trump campaign

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Feb. 15 Ohio Gov. John Kasich makes his case for the Republican presidential nomination in a stop at the Union. Kasich touched on the importance of addressing skyrocketing college tuition rates.

Nov. 2 Donald Trump Jr. visits the Union to give a speech in support of his father, Donald Trump’s, presidential campaign.

Students gather in both admiration and protest his vist. Trump’s speech included topics such as Benghazi, career politicians and being able to live the American Dream.

March 2 En route to an upset victory in Michigan’s primary election, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt) speaks to a raucous crowd of MSU students at the Breslin Center.

Oct. 6 In an effort to bring his supporters into the Clinton campaign fold, Sen. Bernie Sanders returns to MSU to give a speech in support of the Democratic nominee at Adams Field.

March 3 Republican presidential candidates debate in Detroit. Fresh off a Super Tuesday in which he won seven states, Donald Trump addresses the controversies surrounding Trump University and white supremacist support for his candidacy as the other candidates took turns teeing off at the eventual nominee.

Aug. 19 Donald Trump stops in Dimondale, a town neighboring East Lansing, delivering a speech in which he strongly criticizes Hillary Clinton’s record on job creation. This is the closest either major party presidential candidate has come to the MSU campus thus far.

March 6 Three days after Republicans made their case to Michigan voters, it was the Democratic candidates turn. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt) square off in Flint, where Clinton faces scrutiny over trade agreements made under her husband, former President Bill Clinton’s leadership. Sanders comes under fire for his novote on the 2008 federal bailout of Michigan’s big three automakers.

July 18 Melania Trump gives an inspired speech at the Republican National Convention on the values of hard work and respect, but similarities to first lady Michelle Obama’s speech from the 2008 Democratic National Convention leave many scratching their heads, wondering if Melania Trump plagiarized the speech. In the wake of the incident, many Donald Trump supporters fire back at perceived negative media portrayals of the Trump family’s character.

July 26 Second time proves to be the charm for Hillary Clinton as she officially becomes the first female major party presidential nominee at the Democratic National Convention.

July 20 Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) rankles the Republican leadership by refusing to endorse Donald Trump’s candidacy, instead encouraging Americans to “vote your conscience” during his Republican National Convention speech.

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Research by the Wesleyan Media Project at Wesleyan University claims negativity in campaign ads has been trending upward for years, and that September political ads were more negative than the same month in the 2012 presidential election.

Advertising professor Kjerstin Thorson said negative advertising as a whole is an effective tactic.

“We don’t like it, it makes people kind of cynical about elections, but it does mobilize people to turn out because it sends a signal that we should be worried about the election or that it might be close,” Thorson said.

But this phenomenon might be more a matter of the heart.

Thorson said political advertising doesn’t typically aim to change anyone’s mind, rather opting to reinforce and mobilize those already supporting a given candidate or independents who lean in their direction.

Thorson said spending toward search-based online advertising has been going up every election, because these ads can target specific demographics and interests and are much more likely to reach the desired audience than a TV ad broadcast to everyone.

But this isn’t without its downsides.

Thorson said online ads are harder to track and measure, as only certain people can see them.

This campaign has seen a split in campaign advertising techniques.

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“One thing that’s odd about this election is that (Democratic nominee) Hillary Clinton has been doing a lot of television advertising and (Republican nominee) Donald Trump a lot less,” Thorson said. “He’s been doing most of his outreach through public attention, through social media, things like that.”

This unique approach might prove effective in drawing the eyes of younger voters.

Advertising senior Elle Bennett said Trump’s social media is successful because he’s focused more on appearance than policy and the younger generation provides publicity for him because they find him amusing.

When it comes to negative advertising, Bennett said she thinks candidates are getting away with unethical or misleading statements more.

“I think candidates are being more and more greedy and putting information out there that’s not really as ethical as political advertising used to be,” Bennett said. “They can easily misinform an audience about a certain thing that someone did, (take) one little nitpicky thing and really put it out there.”

While she agrees that negative advertising is effective, Bennett said taking a positive angle with political advertising reflects better on the candidate.

“I think when they put positive messages out there, even if it’s about another candidate, it kind of shows they’re trying to educate the population opposed to putting an unethical message out there,” Bennett said.

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Democratic Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton addresses the crowed during her acceptance speech on the final day of the Democratic National Convention on July 28 at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. Clinton became the first woman to accept the nomination of a major party for the presidential election. PHOTO: CARLY GERACI

BY MARIE WEIDMAYER MWEIDMAYER@STATENEWS.COM

It’s less than a week away from what pundits call, like they do every four years, one of the most important elections in U.S. history. From policy differences to possibly making history, see how Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump stack up against each other.

Clinton will make history if she is elected president on Nov. 8, as no woman has ever served as president of the United States.

“It would be similar to Barack Obama being elected as the first African-American president,” co-director for the Center for Gender in Global Context Stephanie Nawyn said.

Clinton has already broken one glass ceiling because she is the first woman to be nominated for one of the two major political parties. If she wins the election, she will break another glass ceiling, Nawyn said.

“The glass ceiling is this theory that there are invisible barriers keeping women from advancing through the highest levels of any particular organization,” Nawyn said. “The idea of going beyond that barrier and getting to those high levels is called breaking the glass ceiling.”

If Clinton breaks the glass ceiling, it is unlikely to cause economic changes, economics professor Charles Ballard said.

“I don’t think her breaking the glass ceiling would cause an economic growth or a recession or anything like that,” Ballard said.

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“I think electing the first female president of the United States would be one of the most iconic moments in U.S. history, not only because it’s happening right now with Hillary, but (because of) the fact that it’s happening right after the election of the first black president in U.S. history,” Eggerding said. “That just makes it all the more iconic.”

The representation of women in high political positions is low, Nawyn said.

“Some girls don’t think of themselves growing up to be in politics because they don’t see adult women in politics,” Nawyn said. “If they see a woman become president, it gives them the sense that this is possible. It opens up new avenues for what is possible. In terms of its symbolism, it’s huge.”

Chair of the MSU College Republicans Jeff Litten disagrees.

“I personally don’t see a difference between a female and a male president,” Litten said. “I don’t think the gender of a president dictates who is the president and how they’re respected.”

Electing Trump could be good for the economy, Litten said.

“I think right now ... the economy is on a steady, very small (upward trend), but not at the rate it has in the past,” Litten said. “(Trump) can make businesses flourish, provide the jobs and make our economy start to grow rapidly again.”

Being president is not the same as being a businessman, Ballard said.

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Spotlight in public office, and it doesn’t always work that way,” Ballard said.

However, a lot of experience in politics does not necessarily translate to being a good president. “(James Buchanan was in a) cabinet, secretary of state, ambassador, all this other stuff … (and he) may well be the worst president ever, even though he had all this experience,” Ballard said.

Clinton and Trump have extremely different policies they plan to implement if they are elected.

Economy and college debt According to Trump’s website, he plans to create 25 million jobs through the course of 10 years by increasing GDP growth. “(Trump’s economy and energy plans) are just designed to get America back to work, keep energy prices low and bring back prosperity to this country,” state director of the Michigan Trump campaign Scott Hagerstrom said.

Trump will cap college loan payments at 12.5 percent of incomes and there will be loan forgiveness after 15 years of payments, Hagerstrom said.

Clinton has a plan that within in her first 100 days in office, she will invest in infrastructure, manufacturing, small business, clean energy and research and technology.

Her website also says she will make debt-free college possible for all Americans and allow people with loans to refinance them.

The Michigan Clinton campaign refused to comment.

Healthcare According to a The State News article, Trump will repeal the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, if he is elected, and implement Health Savings Accounts.

“We know we definitely need changes: introduce more marketplace options, healthcare savings accounts, the ability to purchase health insurance across state lines,” Hagerstrom said. “When you introduce competition into a system, you come out with a low cost and better quality product.”

Trump plans to keep Medicare and

Medicaid, but he will allow states to manage Medicaid through block-grants, Hagerstrom said.

“Each state will be able to create a system that best suits the needs of their state and when you do something like that, what it does is it allows the states to be innovative and creative,” Hagerstrom said.

According to Clinton’s website, she will expand Obamacare and make healthcare affordable for more people and reduce the cost of prescription drugs and out-of-pocket costs such as copays and deductibles.

Clinton will also protect access to reproductive health care, including contraceptives and abortions.

National Defense Trump will increase the number of soldiers in the U.S. Army, increase the number of ships in the U.S. Navy, increase the number of aircrafts in the U.S. Air Force and increase the number of battalions in the U.S. Marine Corps, according to his website.

“We’re not going to be building weapons just because it brings jobs to a particular congressman’s district,” Hagerstrom said. “(We’re going to do) what helps us build a military and defend our country.”

Clinton plans to strengthen relationships with key allies across the world.

She will also invest in American infrastructure, education and innovation.

Energy According to Trump’s website, he will make American energy independent and use America’s untouched shale, oil and natural gas reserves in order to stop imports of energy from hostile nations and the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, or OPEC, cartels.

“We won’t have to depend on countries that hate us for our oil supplies,” Hagerstrom said. “There’s no plan to subsidize any of (the clean energy), but there’s no plans to take the owner’s regulations off so that those forms of energy can be used.”

If Clinton takes office, she plans to install 500 million solar panels before the end of her first term. She will also defend and extend the smart pollution plans and

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She also plans to, within 10 years, expand clean energy production on public land and water, cut energy waste by a third in America and power every house in America with renewable energy.

Tax Plan Under Trump’s tax plan, everyone will receive tax cuts, with middle-class Americans experiencing the biggest reduction. However, he will make sure the rich pay their fair share, according to his website. “(With Trump’s) tax cut plan, a middle class family with two children will get a 35 percent tax cut,” Hagerstrom said. “When (Ronald) Reagan cut tax rates, federal revenues went up.”

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rate than the wealthiest Americans by fighting for measures like the Buffett Rule. She will also tax companies who take their business outside of the U.S. Immigration According to Trump’s website, he has a 10-point plan to put America first. The first point is to build a wall along America’s southern border that Mexico will pay for.

“There are a few ways of paying for the wall,” Hagerstrom said.

“One are tariffs if companies move jobs overseas. ... Another way is transfer payments that are made from our country to Mexico. Those can be taxed, and that tax can go to pay for the wall.”

Other points of Trump’s plan include ending catch-and-release, which means anyone who illegally enters the country will be held until they are sent back to the country they came from. "(Trump has) made it very clear if someone wants to become a citizen of this country, they need to leave the country and get back in line with everybody else,” Hagerstrom said.

Clinton’s immigration reform policy will treat all immigrants with dignity, according to her website. She claims she will enforced immigration law in a humane way. Immigrants who pose a threat to public safety will be deported, while refugees seeking asylum will be given a chance to tell their story.

Clinton will also create the Office of Immigrant Affairs to help immigrants with integration.

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Dan Kelly (R)

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Suzanna Shkreli (D)

Ingham County Prosecutor

Billie Jo O’Berry (R)

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Hillary Clinton has proven herself to be the most qualified candidate to hold the highest office in the world. Her experiences in the political theater have afforded her knowledge, the work ethic and willingness to be bipartisan. Her support for equality, investment in the environment, paths to citizenship for undocumented immigrants and plans to lessen the burden of debt on students make her a worthy candidate.

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Sheriff candidates look to shake things up

BY RILEY MURDOCK RMURDOCK@STATENEWS.COM

Ingham County’s choice to replace longtime Sheriff Gene Wriggelsworth is between two experienced veterans, one from within the office and one from East Lansing, and both with family legacies in the area.

The Democratic candidate is the outgoing sheriff’s son, Lt. Scott Wriggelsworth, who has served for 22 years with the East Lansing Police Department, or ELPD. The Republican candidate, Eric Trojanowicz, had a long career with the county before retiring as a captain in May. Both candidates have top priorities for policy change if elected.

Trojanowicz said he wants to expand the road patrol system to provide more police coverage for citizens, and he plans to cut a few administrative positions to free up resources to do so.

Wriggelsworth said he wants to tackle distracted driving using plain car and clothes tactics, as well as institute a “Behavioral Assessment Unit,” which assigns officers to individuals in crises to help better their treatment.

Both of these goals are based on initiatives at ELPD, Wriggelsworth said, which have been met with success.

“I’ve worked at the Sheriff’s Office for 25 years, I’ve been assigned every facet of the Sheriff’s Office as a command officer, I know the ins and

outs of the Sheriff’s Office,” Trojanowicz said.

“I can step in right away and make the changes that are needed, not only for the Sheriff’s Office but also for the citizens of Ingham County.”

Despite his family ties to the office, Wriggelsworth said he would be coming in with an outsider’s perspective.

“One of the things that I can do is come into that office with a fresh perspective,” Wriggelsworth said. “(I) know how the place operates from my dad being a sheriff for the last 28 years, but all the little nuances and nooks and crannies ... I’m a little short on, just because I’ve never worked there, but that’s a benefit, not a hindrance.”

Trojanowicz said he has been influenced greatly by his late father, Robert Trojanowicz, who for 12 years directed MSU’s School of Criminal Justice. If elected, Trojanowicz said he wants to embrace the community policing concepts pioneered by his father, which he said build trust between officers and those they serve.

“As a police agency, we can’t do it alone, we need the assistance of the community to help us solve some of these crimes,” Trojanowicz said.

“I’m going to resurrect that philosophy at the Ingham County Sheriff’s Office.”

When it comes to succeeding the 28-year career of Gene Wriggelsworth, Trojanowicz said experience has more weight than family ties.

Trojanowicz said he believes the current leadership has gotten the job done, but change and

an experienced hand are needed.

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“I’m never going to apologize for my last name been striving for that opportunity for actually ... or who my father is, but to say I’m just inher- about 10 years. ... The time is now, the time is iting this and not working at it is simply not right, and I’m going for it.”

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A father and his son, who declined to give their names, observe the rhinoceros exhibit on Nov. 1 at Potter Park Zoo, 1301 S Pennsylvania Ave., Lansing. PHOTO: DEREK VANHORN

BY BRENDAN BAXTER BBAXTER@STATENEWS.COM

Ingham County voters will decide to renew or not renew a millage used for operating expenses of the Potter Park Zoo, located in Lansing during this year’s election.

“The millage, really, is responsible for the operating expenses of the zoo: operations, maintenance and improvements,” Potter Park Zoo Education Curator Dennis Laidler said.

Laidler said the millage is an important part of the zoo’s budget.

“In the aggregate, (the millage) generates $2.8 million a year for the operations of the Potter Park Zoo, and that is far and away the largest single revenue source, $2.8 million a year,” Hope said. “The next largest revenue source is admissions, and that’s $600,000 a year, so that gives the idea of how significant the millage is.”

Laidler said he feels this millage is important to the city and to the county.

“The zoo is really a centerpiece for the city and the county,” Laidler said. “We have almost 200,000 visitors, like one hundred 70 or 80 thousand (170,000 or 180,000) visitors a year.”

The Potter Park Zoo is nationally accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, an honor less than 10 percent of zoos and aquariums are awarded in the United States.

For that reason, it is important to Laidler that the millage to be renewed so the zoo can hold onto the accreditation.

“We would not be able to be accredited if we didn’t have the funding from the millage,” Laidler said.

Chairperson of Ingham County Board of Commissioners Kara Hope said a millage is, “a property tax, and depending on what your property is worth that dictates what you’ll pay in property taxes. If you don’t own any property, you won’t directly pay property taxes, however, it’s pretty commonly understood that landlords take their property taxes into account when they set rent.”

This is not the only millage that exists in Ingham County, Hope said.

“In Ingham County we do have a number of dedicated

millages, and the Potter Park Zoo millage is an example of that,” Hope said. “The good thing about those is that it guarantees a revenue source for a particular service or whatever it is, like the zoo, parks and trails, animal shelter, whatever the subject of the millage vote is.”

Hope said for this reason, millages function as a method of direct democracy because it gives voters an opportunity to say what they do and do not want to pay for.

Laidler said he realizes the biggest question for many people regards how much it will cost them to support the zoo.

“The sort of standard that they use when people say, ‘Well, how much is this going to cost me in my property taxes?’” Laidler said. “The standard they use, so you can compare to various millages, is that for a typical home that’s valued at $100,000, which means it has a taxable value of approximately $50,000, it’s about $20.50 per year, about a $1.70 a month.”

All things considered, this change in property tax does not equate to a very noticeable difference for Ingham County residents.

On a more basic level, Hope said, “As far as the millage rate, it’s comparable (to other Ingham County millages). It’s .41 mils, so that’s 41 cents of every thousand dollars of taxable value on your property.”

Compared to the millage renewal that passed earlier this year for the Detroit Zoo, which is an accredited zoo similar to Potter Park Zoo, the costs are not far off from one another.

“For a homeowner whose home is worth roughly $200,000, the cost is about $10 a year,” Bill Laitner from the Detroit Free Press said in an article.

Laidler said it’s easy for Ingham County residents to make up the cost of the millage by visiting the zoo.

“Ingham County residents do get reduced admission because they’re in the levy area and also on Mondays, the first half of the day, any Monday they can come in for free because they’re Ingham County residents,” Laidler said.

Hope wanted to make sure voters understand the importance of this millage.

“It’s not an overstatement to say the zoo cannot operate without this millage,” she said.

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Meet the candidates: Board of Trustees AHANKIN@STATENEWS.COM

MSU students and other Michigan voters will have the opportunity to choose who makes decisions that can greatly impact the MSU community, decisions such as raising tuition or implementing a smoking ban on campus.

MSU students are eligible to vote for two new trustees to serve on MSU’s Board of Trustees, or they can choose to re-elect the two incumbents who have served for eight years.

Trustees are elected, unpaid officials responsible for three major things on MSU’s campus: choosing MSU’s president, voting on major policies and financial decisions made to MSU’s campus and setting the rate of students’ tuition.

Here are the individuals running for trustee spots.

dianne byrum

dan kelly

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DIANNE BYRUM, DEMOCRAT, INCUMBENT

Byrum is co-founder of public relations firm Byrum and Fisk Communications, which she does outside of being and MSU trustee. She’s an MSU alumna from the College of Agriculture, and before she became a trustee she spent 16 years in the Michigan legislature as a state representative and state senator. She has also been a commencement speaker at MSU. “First of all, I have a real passion for education,” Byrum said. “I have always believed that we have a personal responsibility to give back what you have been privileged to receive, and I have stressed that giving back through public service.”

She said she’s most proud of her work with MSU’s Energy Transition Plan, which cleared MSU from burning coal last April.

“I’ve been very active in not only being an advocate, for not only supporting the transition plan, but for the use of renewable energy,” Byrum said.

If Byrum is re-elected, she plans on tackling the rising cost of student tuition — hopefully in some slightly unorthodox ways.

“I believe very strongly in access, in making sure that tuition is affordable, that we have diversity and inclusion across campus,” Byrum said. “The level of tuition is one piece of the puzzle. Making sure that students complete their degree in as close to four years as possible. ... The longer it takes students to complete their degree, the more debt students have.”

DIANN WOODARD, DEMOCRAT, INCUMBENT

Woodard serves as the international president of the American Federation of School Administrators and is a former member of the board of directors of School of the 21st Century. She was president of the Organization of School Administrators and Supervisors from 2000-09. She got her bachelor’s degree from MSU. She said her key platform is college affordability.

“I have consistently fought for students by voting no on tuition increases,” Woodard said via email.

“I understand what it means to graduate in debt because I left MSU with debt. While MSU students will graduate with less debt than the state average, it is still a burden in a state where wages are stagnant and jobs are few.”

Woodard said if she were re-elected, she would maintain her focus on affordability while still attempting to keep MSU a competitive university.

“For the next eight years I would like to work on holding the cost of tuition down while not diminishing the university’s competitiveness in recruiting quality faculty, building state of the art classrooms and labs, as well as, offering educational programs that will be viable for the future,” Woodard said. Woodard said she enjoyed her time as an MSU trustee, and looks forward to “engaging

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students and faculty as together we fight for an equitable future for all.”

Deary, like Kelly, said he plans to keep tuition low by freezing tuition rates for in-state students Kelly is a lawyer and a father of one recent MSU and capping the amount of out-of-state students graduate, and has two more children currently accepted into the university. attending the university. He currently serves on WILL TYLER WHITE, GREEN PARTY Oakland Community College’s Board of Trustees, An entrepreneur and owner of White Bros. where he has a reputation for fighting tuition hikes. Music, White said he believes colleges across the He sits on the Board of Directors for a law firm, nation have become far too expensive. and was elected the Independence Township Plan“The cost of attending university is going up ning Commissioner for an eight-year term. He said higher and faster than inflation, and it’s making he’s running for college affordability, mostly for a college unaffordable for a lot of people,” White decrease in expenditures. said. “Some degrees are more valuable than oth“Quite frankly I think if I get elected to the board, ers, and I think the university does a poor job of we have to have a bipartisan approach to (tui- quantifying that.” tion),” Kelly said. “We have to say, ‘hey, are we pricWhite has a long resume of community accoming ourselves out of Michigan residents?’ I think plishments, most notably for business, workforce both Republicans and Democrats have to understand that.”

Kelly’s biggest concern is MSU becoming too expensive for Michigan students and the university placing a higher regard on out-of-state students because they pay a higher rate of tuition.

“MSU has increased the budget expenditures every year for the past 10 years, this year being the 11th,” Kelly said. “Being a college, the only discretionary income they have comes from students.

So if you increase your expenditures, the only way to get that money is from tuition.”

DAN KELLY, REPUBLICAN

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WILLIAM DEARY, REPUBLICAN

Deary is a co-founder of Great Lakes Caring Home Health and Hospice. He serves as the vice chairman of the executive committee on the Michigan Chamber of Commerce, and serves on the boards of the Mackinac Island Park Commission, the Jackson Anchor Initiative, St. John Parish Scholarship Program and is a member of St. John the Evangelist Church. He, like Kelly, is running on a platform of college affordability.

“I think one of the things that’s different about my approach to Michigan State is that I also see Michigan State as a business — and this is a big business, a $1.6 billion company,” Deary said. “And Michigan State has a Board of Trustees, and I view the Board of Trustees the same as I would view a Board of Directors of a big company.”

Deary, a businessman, attended MSU during a time when he said summer jobs were different. He got his bachelor’s degree in two years from MSU, and then his master’s, still graduating ahead of a few of his friends.

“I had an ability to pay for my education, the summer job that I had doesn’t exist anymore,” Deary said. “My student loans weren’t very expensive. What I realized is that if I, today, tried to go to Michigan State with the financial position that I was in, I probably couldn’t afford it.”

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and economic development. He said voting third party is the only way to fight the rigged political system in America, whether that be in local or national elections.

“The Green Party is not a Republican or a Democrat,” White said. “The two-party system is dysfunctional, and only serves the elite one percent of corporate America. ... The only way to break that two-party stranglehold is to vote for third parties.”

GREGORY SCOTT STEMPFLE, LIBERTARIAN

Stempfle is a recent alumnus of Wayne State University with his master’s degree. He said this makes him the candidate closest to the realities of dealing with the ever-rising costs of student debt.

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5 candidates go head-to-head in 8th District race for Congress Rifle Association, or NRA, according to his campaign website.

Bishop did not respond to requests for comment.

BY BRIGID KENNEDY BKENNEDY@STATENEWS.COM

SUZANNA SHKRELI, DEMOCRAT FIVE CANDIDATES ARE RUNNING TO REPRESENT MICHIGAN’S 8TH DISTRICT IN THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS. THE DISTRICT INCLUDES ALL OF INGHAM AND LIVINGSTON COUNTIES AND NORTHERN OAKLAND COUNTY. MSU AND OAKLAND UNIVERSITY ARE BOTH PART OF THE DISTRICT. THE CANDIDATES COME FROM THE REPUBLICAN, DEMOCRATIC, NATURAL LAW, GREEN AND LIBERTARIAN PARTIES. MIKE BISHOP, REPUBLICAN, INCUMBENT

Bishop is the current representative for the 8th District in the U.S. House of Representatives and recently co-sponsored a bill to strengthen career and technical education.

Bishop wants to reduce federal control over educational programs, according to his Congressional website.

Bishop also hopes to decrease loan default rates to support college and university students.

He plans to work to strengthen border control and has expressed concerns about the vetting process to allow Syrian refugees to enter the United States.

He was endorsed by the Police Officers Association of Michigan in May, and received an A/A+ rating from the National

Shkreli currently works as a prosecutor.

“I spend my days in the courtroom protecting women and children,” she said.

Shkreli plans to continue this work by voting to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act and the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, and to support pro-choice legislation, according to her website.

Shkreli wants to support students by stopping tuition costs from rising and making it possible to refinance student loans.

“If you’re able to refinance your mortgage, you should be able to refinance student loan debt,” she said.

Shkreli hopes to ban gifts from lobbyists and to require members of Congress to disclose any meetings with lobbyists, according to her website.

Being a prosecutor made Shkreli a fighter, she said, and prepared her to take action in Congress.

“I get more done in court in one day than Congress does all session,” she said.

Shkreli was endorsed by President Barack Obama at the end of October.

JEREMY BURGESS, NATURAL LAW PARTY

Burgess currently works as a research and development chemist and engineer for an automotive company, according to his campaign’s Facebook page.

Running as a member of the Natural Law Party allows him to remain independent from partisan politics, Burgess said.

“The party only still exists in Michigan and there isn’t a platform I need to follow,” Burgess said on his campaign’s Facebook page. “I try to tailor my political views to what is best to the people of the 8th District in Michigan and I don’t have to worry about party leaders telling me what I need to believe.

I’m big on having the ability to vote for what is in the best interests of the people.”

Burgess said he is also running as a third party candidate because a two-party system is inefficient.

“They’re more concerned with arguing with each other than representing the people,” he said.

Burgess wants to work to control government spending and improve the education system by teaching life skills in the classroom.

In addition, making higher education more affordable by lowering interest rates on student loans is another plan of his, he said.

“I don’t believe in free education,” he said. “It has to be paid for somewhere.”

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Bishop could not be reached for comment.

MARIA GREEN, GREEN PARTY

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Green supports cannabis legislation, drug policy reform and Child Protective Services reform, according to her website. She also supports a national $15 an hour minimum wage and reparations for descendants of slaves.

Green did not respond to requests for comment.

JEFF WOOD, LIBERTARIAN PARTY

Wood is running as a Libertarian, though he identifies as an anarchist, according to his website.

The position for which he is running should not exist, he said, and he is running primarily to spread his message, not to be elected.

“Running for office is one of the few outlets we are still allowed to use for venting our frustration with our government,” he said in a blog post on his website.

Wood did not respond to requests for comment.

The importance of local elections

BY MCKENNA ROSS MROSS@STATENEWS.COM

Alex Noffsinger, vice president of governmental affairs for ASMSU, said the organization is setting up tables on campus with literature from the League of Women Voters about the different races and candidates. “(The) information on down ballot elections as well,” Noffsinger, a social relations and policy senior, said. “It doesn’t cover everything, but does provide the basic information. It gives them a good enough idea to make a somewhat informed decision, or least to start researching them.”

City Clerk Marie Wicks said the other contests on the ballot should be treated with equal importance by students.

“Really everything underneath (the) presidential (election on the ballot) is important,” Wicks said.

Despite this sentiment, voter turnout in the past has been low. According to Ingham County’s website, average voter turnout on the five on-campus precincts between 2012 and 2016 was 8.65 percent.

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of the race. The average turnout for East Lansing City Council races in that period was 0.88 percent and the average turnout for gubernatorial elections was 14.35 percent.

Wicks said she thinks voter turnout this year will be different. The city registered about 7,500 new voters, and 6,648 of them are from on-campus precincts.

Wicks said she expects voter turnout to be high because of this, though she does not know what races people will be voting in.

“Anecdotally, some people don’t want to vote top of the ballot, some people only want to vote top of the ballot,” Wicks said. “I think the important thing to note is that you can do that. You don’t have to vote in every contest on the ballot. Your vote will still count.”

Councilmember Shanna Draheim said lower-ballot elections are important to students because they represent the students in a broader forum.

“Local state house races, those are the people that are going to be making Michigan public policy,” Draheim said.

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Two MSU alumni running for 69th District in Michigan House of Reps.

BY MCKENNA ROSS MROSS@STATENEWS.COM

Two MSU alumni are running to represent the 69th District in the Michigan House of Representative.

Sam Singh (D) is the incumbent running for his third and final term.

His challenger is George Nastas III (R), a retired Department of Defense analyst and marketing instructor at MSU and University of Michigan-Flint.

Sam Singh One of Singh’s main focuses is continuing his work on higher education reform. He said though the state has made incremental changes in making higher education a priority in the state budget, there is still work to be done.

He serves as vice chair of the House Higher Education Budget Committee. One of his goals in the committee is to invest directly in student aid.

“When the governor first came on board, he cut all public universities and a number of the scholarship programs by 15 percent,” Singh said. “It’s time to catch up and make sure all institutions and all programs are back to their pre-2011 level, and we have to now catch up for probably over a decade of underinvestment that occurred when we were in more difficult times.“ Singh’s work on issues affecting college students extends to

‘‘If we are to be competitive, we need to begin to take a look at more renewable energy and energy efficiency.’’

Sam Singh, Incumbent Democratic nominee for Michigan House 69th District

those outside the classroom with legislation recently signed into law that protects those who seek medical eorge astas treatment for a prescription drug overdose or similar emergency from being charged with drug possession. current position - Retired “We’re seeing a lot of drug overdoses that are resultP arty: Republican ing in death, and what I wanted to do is provide a Position running for: mechanism to make it easier to call and get the medRepresentative for 69th ical attention they need for a friend,” Singh said.

Singh wants to make strides in energy policy for District the state. He said he wants to continue focusing on We need to shift towards consumption and services for renewable energy and energy efficiency within the taxation, in particular people who consume government state’s electric systems. services ought to pay for the services they consume.

“I’ve been advocating for increasing those standards,” he said. “If we are to be competitive, we need to begin to take a look at more renewable energy and energy efficiency.”

Incumbent George Nastas III If elected, Nastas’ main focus will be lowering taxParty: Democratic es and improving Michigan’s economy. Nastas said Position running for: he thinks the legislature should lower several difRepresentative for 69th ferent taxes.

“In 2017, the gas tax and vehicle registration tax is It’s time to catch up and make sure all institutions and all going to go up,” Nastas said. “I think that before they programs are back to their pre-2011 level and we have to raised taxes, they could have shifted the 6 percent now catch up for probably over a decade of underinvestment. sales tax to fund a highway rather than shift these tax increases. ... I think we ought to eliminate the state That economic growth is key to helping college students, he said. income tax and real estate transfer taxes. There are many states that have no state income tax or business tax, like He said he believes that growing Michigan’s economy will give Wyoming. We need to shift towards consumption and services students more job opportunities and create higher paying jobs. “(My contribution would) help to create a robust economy for taxation. In particular people who consume government serthat presents graduates with many high compensation, interestvices ought to pay for the services they consume.”

Nastas said he believes his free market beliefs will represent ing, challenging jobs that provide the opportunity for personthe 69th district well because he wants to see Michigan’s econ- al growth, to make a contribution and to create financial independence,” Nastas said via email. omy grow.

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Candidates for Ingham County prosecutor hope to restore faith

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For the first time in 19 years, a new prosecuting attorney will be elected for Ingham County. The election will result in either Republican Billie Jo O’Berry or Democrat Carol Siemon and either way, will mark the first female to be elected to the Ingham County position.

After former prosecuting attorney Stuart Dunnings III resigned after pleading guilty to 15 prostitution-related crimes in Ingham, Clinton and Ionia counties, current Ingham County Prosecuting Attorney Gretchen Whitmer took over.

Voters on Nov. 8 will determine who will be elected into position and help rebuild the reputation of the Ingham County Prosecutor’s Office.

In addition to restoring the faith in the position, the elected Ingham County prosecuting attorney acts as the chief law enforcement officer for Ingham County.

“There’s a lot of discretion in terms of bringing charges, there’s a lot of important work that needs to be done in terms of keeping the public informed and making determinations on activities (in) the prosecutor’s office,” Whitmer said. “And really, the most important thing we do is determine when and what charges to bring for crimes

that are committed within Ingham County.”

Both O’Berry and Siemon look to increase transparency in the prosecutor’s office and want to use proportionate responses to crime, but their focuses on other issues differ.

O’Berry wants to focus on increasing communication and contact between victims, the public and the court.

To do this, she would develop a 24-hour line for victims so that they could call and check on the status of their case, she said.

She would also like to issue reports to local media sources to update the public on problem areas throughout the county.

She said she would go through pending cases that have not been reviewed or issued and develop a complete audit of the evidence involved.

O’Berry also wants to develop a public defender’s office for Ingham County to ensure minorities and people of lower economic levels have legal counsel with proper resources to defend them in cases, she said.

“I was in court today, or just recently got out of court — one of the victims indicated to me that she didn’t understand the process or what was occurring,” she said. “My paramount focus is on victims understanding the system so they don’t feel further victimized by the judicial process.”

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‘‘I’m a big advocate for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. I want to make sure that we’re fair to the defendants but that we’re also having a response that is really appropriate.”

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“My paramount focus is on victims understanding the system so they don’t feel further victimized by the judicial process.”

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