New Muskegon County board chair’s challenge is uniting ‘Trump Republicans’ and Democrats
Updated Jan 12, 2021;
MUSKEGON COUNTY, MI – After waiting nearly two decades to realize his goal of leading the Muskegon County Board of Commissioners, Bob Scolnik said these are the right times for a moderate like him to take the helm.
Scolnik, a Republican who has represented the Norton Shores area on the board for 18 years, recently was voted by his colleagues to become the county board’s new chair.
Scolnik believes his job now is to get the county board focused and united on issues that matter to county residents.
Muskegon County Voters Return GOP To Leadership Position
Muskegon County Republican leaders are fielding calls from around the country. Other conservatives want to learn more about how the local party leadership set up the process for the County Board of Commissioners to be dominated by Republicans for the first time since Ronald Reagan was President. Democrats of course are also taking note.
To say the 2020 General Election was monumental for the local GOP is clearly an understatement. What isn’t so surprising is the relative lack of coverage from local media outlets. Individual races were covered. But the totality of the number of people voting for a conservative change in Muskegon County leadership has largely been ignored. But make no mistake. People around the country are taking notice and looking closely at what happened on election day in the Lake Michigan shoreline county. And what will be happening as a result.