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Jack Hoogendyk
Jacob "Jack" Hoogendyk ( ; born 31 July 1955) is an American businessman and Republican politician, a former member of the Michigan House of Representatives and 2012 candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in Michigan. Early life, education, and business career Hoogendyk was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He is of Dutch ancestry. He worked as a manager with a Fortune 500 company. He joined Alternatives of Kalamazoo, Pregnancy Care Center as executive director in April 1996. In 2000, Hoogendyk was elected to the Kalamazoo County Board of Commissioners. Prior to that, he was on the Portage Zoning Board of Appeals and the Kalamazoo County Public Health Advisory Board. Michigan House of Representatives Elections After redistricting, Jack ran for Michigan's 61st House District in 2002 and defeated Democrat James Houston 57%-43%. In 2004, he won re-election to a second term with 55% of the vote. In 2006, he won re-election to a third term with just 51% of the vote. Tenure Hoog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michigan's 61st House Of Representatives District
Michigan's 61st House of Representatives district (also referred to as Michigan's 61st House district) is a legislative district within the Michigan House of Representatives located in part of Macomb County, Michigan, Macomb County. The district was created in 1965, when the Michigan House of Representatives district naming scheme changed from a county-based system to a numerical one. List of representatives Recent elections 2020 2018 2016 2014 2012 2010 2008 Historical district boundaries References {{Michigan House of Representatives Michigan House of Representatives districts Kalamazoo County, Michigan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Texas Township, Michigan
Texas Charter Township is a charter township in Kalamazoo County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the township population was 17,691, up from 14,697 at the 2010 census. It encompasses the entire portion of the survey township T3S R12W. The Texas Township Campus of Kalamazoo Valley Community College is located on the southern side of West O Avenue, just east of 8th Street South. Geography The township is in western Kalamazoo County, bordered to the east by the city of Portage and to the west by the village of Mattawan in Van Buren County. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which are land and , or 5.28%, are water. Interstate 94 crosses the northern part of the township, leading east to Kalamazoo and west to Benton Harbor. US 131 is a north–south highway that runs just east of the township boundary in the city of Portage. Texas Township wholly contains the Al Sabo Preserve, which straddles Portage Cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michigan's 6th Congressional District
Michigan's 6th congressional district is a United States congressional district in southeast Michigan. In 2022, the district was redrawn to be centered around Ann Arbor, Michigan, Ann Arbor and Washtenaw County, Michigan, Washtenaw County, as well as western and southern Wayne County, Michigan, Wayne County, a small part of southwestern Oakland County, Michigan, Oakland County, and the city of Milan, Michigan, Milan in Monroe County, Michigan, Monroe County. In previous redistrictings, the 6th district consisted of all of Berrien County, Michigan, Berrien, Cass County, Michigan, Cass, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph County, Michigan, St. Joseph, and Van Buren County, Michigan, Van Buren, counties, and includes most of Allegan County, Michigan, Allegan county. The district is currently represented by Democratic Party (United States), Democrat Debbie Dingell, who previously represented the old Michigan's 12th congressional district, 12th district. Counties and mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Boman
Scott Avery Boman (born April 14, 1962) * Edited by WDIV Staff http://clickondetroit.com (website). is an American Libertarian politician from Michigan. He has consistently earned among the top votes of any third-party candidate in every Michigan election from 2000 through 2018. * * He was chair of the Libertarian Party of Michigan in 2006. * * Described by MIRS as a Libertarian Party standard-bearer,Michigan Information and Research Service (MIRS) is an established subscriber-only news service. Non-subscribers may search to verify headlines and summaries. Those seeking to verify complete content may apply for a trial subscription at thMIRS website"/ref> he has been a candidate in every state-wide partisan election since 1994, until successfully running for the Detroit office of Community Advisory Council (district 4) in 2020. * He became the second Libertarian to be endorsed by ''The Detroit News'' when he competed in the 1997 Detroit City Council general election on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Senate Election In Michigan, 2008
The 2008 United States Senate election in Michigan was held on November 4, 2008 Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Carl Levin won reelection to a sixth and final term. Levin carried 77 of List of counties in Michigan, Michigan’s 83 Counties, and also carried every Michigan's congressional districts, House district. General election Candidates * Scott Boman (Libertarian) * Doug Dern (Natural Law) * Carl Levin, incumbent U.S. Senator (Democratic) * Jack Hoogendyk, State Representative from Kalamazoo, Michigan, Kalamazoo (Republican) * Harley Mikkelson (Green) * Michael Nikitin (U.S. Taxpayers) Campaign Levin's 2002 opponent Andrew Raczkowski considered running again, but military commitments forced him to drop out. State representative Jack Hoogendyk declared his candidacy to challenge Levin. Troy, Michigan, Troy engineer Bart Baron was also running. Baron apparently failed to qualify for the August 5, 2008 party primary ballot in the Michigan Secretary of State's office. So on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Senate
The United States Senate is a chamber of the Bicameralism, bicameral United States Congress; it is the upper house, with the United States House of Representatives, U.S. House of Representatives being the lower house. Together, the Senate and House have the authority under Article One of the United States Constitution, Article One of the Constitution of the United States, U.S. Constitution to pass or defeat federal legislation. The Senate also has exclusive power to confirm President of the United States, U.S. presidential appointments, to approve or reject treaties, and to convict or exonerate Impeachment in the United States, impeachment cases brought by the House. The Senate and the House provide a Separation of powers under the United States Constitution, check and balance on the powers of the Federal government of the United States#Executive branch, executive and Federal judiciary of the United States, judicial branches of government. The composition and powers of the Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Levin
Carl Milton Levin (June 28, 1934 – July 29, 2021) was an American attorney and politician who served as a List of United States senators from Michigan, United States senator from Michigan from 1979 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, he was the chair of the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services, Senate Armed Services Committee from 2001 to 2003 and again from 2007 to 2015. Born in Detroit, Levin graduated from Swarthmore College and Harvard Law School. He worked as the general counsel of the Michigan Civil Rights Commission from 1964 to 1967, and as a special assistant attorney general for the Michigan Attorney General, Michigan Attorney General's Office. Levin was a member of the Detroit City Council from 1969 to 1977, serving as the council's president for the last four of those years. In 1978 United States Senate election in Michigan, 1978, Levin ran for the United States Senate, defeating Republican Party (United States) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Term Limit
A term limit is a legal restriction on the number of terms a person may serve in a particular elected office. When term limits are found in presidential and semi-presidential systems they act as a method of curbing the potential for monopoly, where a leader effectively becomes " president for life". Term limits may be a lifetime limit on the number of terms an officeholder may serve, or a limit on the number of consecutive terms. According to a 2020 analysis, nearly one in four incumbents who face term limits seek to circumvent the term limits through various strategies, including constitutional amendments, working with the judiciary to reinterpret the term limits, let a placeholder govern for the incumbent, and cancelling or delaying elections. History Europe Term limits date back to Ancient Greece and the Roman Republic, as well as the Republic of Venice. In ancient Athenian democracy, many officeholders were limited to a single term. Council members were allowed a maximum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick DeVos
Richard Marvin DeVos Jr. ( ; born October 21, 1955) is an American businessman, author, and former politician. The son of Amway co-founder Richard DeVos, he was CEO of the multi-level marketing company from 1993 to 2002. In 2006 Michigan gubernatorial election, 2006, DeVos ran for Governor of Michigan but lost to the then-incumbent Democrat Jennifer Granholm. In 2012, ''Forbes'' magazine listed his father as the No. 351 richest person in the world, with a net worth of approximately . DeVos is the husband of Betsy DeVos, the former United States Secretary of Education in the First presidency of Donald Trump, first Trump administration. Family and early life DeVos was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the son of Helen June (Van (Dutch), Van Wesep) and Richard Marvin DeVos. His grandparents were Dutch immigrants. DeVos is a graduate of the Forest Hills, Michigan, Forest Hills public school system. He was involved in the family business, Amway, even as a child. "I still remember whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Governor Of Michigan
The governor of Michigan is the head of government of the U.S. state of Michigan. The current governor is Gretchen Whitmer, a member of the Democratic Party, who was inaugurated on January 1, 2019, as the state's 49th governor. She was re-elected to serve a second term in 2022. The governor is elected to a four-year term and is limited to two terms. Qualifications Governors of Michigan, as well as their lieutenant governors, must be United States citizens who have been qualified electors in Michigan for the four years preceding election and must be at least 30 years of age. A constitutional amendment adopted at the 2010 general election provides that a person is ineligible for any elected office, including governor and lieutenant governor, if convicted of a felony involving dishonesty, deceit, fraud, or a breach of the public trust, and if the conviction were related to the person's official capacity while holding any elective office or position of employment in local, stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Human Papillomavirus
Human papillomavirus infection (HPV infection) is caused by a DNA virus from the ''Papillomaviridae'' family. Many HPV infections cause no symptoms and 90% resolve spontaneously within two years. In some cases, an HPV infection persists and results in either warts or precancerous lesions. All warts are caused by HPV. These lesions, depending on the site affected, increase the risk of cancer of the cervical cancer, cervix, vulva cancer, vulva, vaginal cancer, vagina, penis cancer, penis, anal cancer, anus, oropharyngeal cancer, mouth, tonsils, or throat. Nearly all cervical cancer is due to HPV, and two strains – HPV16 and HPV18 – account for 70% of all cases. HPV16 is responsible for almost 90% of HPV-positive oropharyngeal cancers. Between 60% and 90% of the other cancers listed above are also linked to HPV. HPV6 and HPV11 are common causes of genital warts and laryngeal papillomatosis. An HPV infection is caused by the ''human papillomavirus'', a DNA virus from the papi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gardasil
Gardasil is an HPV vaccine for use in the prevention of certain strains of human papillomavirus (HPV). Text was copied from this source which is copyright European Medicines Agency. Reproduction is authorized provided the source is acknowledged. It was developed by Merck & Co. High-risk human papilloma virus (hr-HPV) genital infection is the most common sexually transmitted infection among women. The HPV strains that Gardasil protects against are sexually transmitted, specifically HPV types 6, 11, 16 and 18. HPV types 16 and 18 cause an estimated 70% of cervical cancers, and are responsible for most HPV-induced anal, vulvar, vaginal, and penile cancer cases. HPV types 6 and 11 cause an estimated 90% of genital warts cases. HPV type 16 is responsible for almost 90% of HPV-positive oropharyngeal cancers, and the prevalence is higher in males than females. Though Gardasil does not treat existing infection, vaccination is still recommended for HPV-positive individuals, as i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
