Who’s new in the Michigan House of Representatives
Updated Jan 05, 2021;
Posted Jan 05, 2021
The House Chamber pictured at the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing on Thursday, April 25, 2019.Neil Blake
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The new legislative session brings with it substantial turnover for the Michigan House of Representatives, which will have 28 new lawmakers serving their first full terms in office.
Most of the freshman class will fill House seats vacated by members who hit their six-year term limit serving in the state House, although some defeated incumbents or are replacing members who sought other offices last fall.
Speaker-elect Jason Wentworth, R-Clare, and Democratic Leader-elect Donna Lasinski, D-Scio Township, will fill the leadership slots left open by the departures of former Reps. Lee Chatfield and Christine Greig.
LANSING – Several hundred supporters of President Donald Trump gathered for a peaceful demonstration outside the Capitol in Lansing on Wednesday, many of them clinging to a faint hope that the results of the Nov. 3 election could still be overturned.
More than a dozen carried rifles slung over their shoulders. Others carried U.S. flags, Trump flags, and signs with messages such as Stop the steal and Fake virus.
Organizers blasted over the Capitol lawn in Lansing a live feed of Trump s remarks to thousands of supporters at the Ellipse, near the U.S. Capitol. But unlike in Washington, D.C., nobody in the Lansing crowd attempted to push their way inside the Capitol, which was closed Wednesday.