HOWELL, MI (WHTC) – Actress Melissa Gilbert, who now lives in Livingston County, has announced that she is seeking the Democratic Party nomination to challenge first-term Republican Congressman Mike Bishop of Rochester next fall. Gilbert, known for her portrayal of Laura Ingalls Wilder in the television show Little House on the Prairie, is a one-time Screen Actors Guild president.
Bishop, Dan Benishek and Tim Walberg have been targeted by the Michigan Democratic Party as “vulnerable” GOP incumbent Congressmen.
