SAUGATUCK, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – A Saugatuck small business owner will try to do what normally isn’t done along the Lakeshore.
Garnet Lewis announced “a vigorous campaign” to run as a Democrat for the state Senate seat that Republican Tonya Schuitmaker must vacate at year’s end due to term limits. The Chairperson of Saugatuck’s Planning Commission and member of the city’s Board of Review, the retired educator said that she is running to “seek common ground between different opinions on important issues” to “move our District and the State forward and out of this paralyzing divisiveness.”
The 26th state Senate district seat, which encompasses Allegan and Van Buren counties, along with Kentwood in Kent County, has traditionally gone to the Republicans.
According to the Michigan Secretary of State’s office, another Saugatuck resident, Republican Bob Genetski, along with Libertarian Erwin Haas of Kentwood, have thus far paid the $100 fee to be on the August 2018 primary ballot, with former state lawmaker Aric Nesbitt of Lawton expected to challenge Genetski for the GOP nomination.
