UP Legislative Retirements due to term limits

The Upper Peninsula has two state senators and four state representatives.

Both the state senators, Prusi and Allen, are retiring due to term limits.

State Representatives McDowell (Soo) and Lahti (Houghton) are running for the state senate.

That means we lose all of our seniority in the state Senate and half of it in the state House. This like the Stupak retirement will mean less state aid to our district because we will have freshman legislators who will not have the experience and the connections that the men they are replacing have in the legislature. Seniority matters. Seniority means dollars, programs and services in those districts with public officials with seniority.