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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's talk to Mike Markey, who's running for Senate here
in Michigan State Senate District thirty one on the website Disruptor, Father, entrepreneur.
You know him because he ran for governor in twenty
twenty two. He's been on this show before. No stranger
to the program. Mike, thank you so much for taking
the time to be here.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
With us today, be with you, justin and you know,
thanks for having us on. I mean, you're such a
great resource to your listeners and the community.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Thanking everybody informed.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Thank you, brother. I appreciate that we got a lot
of big problems in not just nationwide, but we got
a lot here in Michigan. I got sort of my
thoughts on what I think those are. But you know
what I'd like to hear is from from you. What
you're hearing from people when you're out talking to folks,
(00:52):
you know, pressing the flesh. I'm sure you get an
ear for what are people most focused on right now.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Oh, you're absolutely right. We have a lot of problems
here at home. I mean, we're the second slowest growing
state in the last ten last twenty years, we've gone
from middle of the pack of education to. You know,
we're fighting to be dead last in third grade reading.
We went from middle in math to fighting to be
dead last for eighth grade math. We've got an affordability
(01:21):
issue with housing, We've got jobs that are leaving. We're
the you know, I guess at least we climbed a
little bit out of the cellar. We were second in
the country on unemployment and we've squeaked to now just
being third. You know, so the third worst state in
the country for unemployment. So the big issues that we
have here is education. We all know that we've got
to you know, we've got to not only improve our
(01:43):
education and give our kids the ability to dream again,
because kids who can't read don't have the same bright
future and aspirations that you know, our generation had.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Because we could read and write, we could do arithmetic.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
We've got another problem with big business. We've got to
not only bring business back here to Michigan, but we've
got a top stop trying to lure them in with
hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars in some cases,
because that just simply doesn't work. What we have to
have is a thriving small business community. You know, Democrats
yell about big business greed and they want to rain
(02:14):
them in by having a big government.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Well that doesn't work.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
So the way the way we fix that is we
have the strongest small business environment in the country and
we've got to bring back manufacturing. It can be done.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
It is being done.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
There was a story the other day of a Michigan
manufacturer and steel.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
That's coming back.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
But you know, the US led the world in manufacturing
here about fifty sixty years ago, and it was Michigan
that led the world, or a Michigan that led the country.
So we've been there before. We can do it again.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
But we have to have the right leadership.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
So we've got to stop saying things like, let's become
better in education, let's you know, become top ten. I
think we need leadership that says, let's make Michigan number one.
We should be number one in third grade reading, we
should be number one in eighth grade math, we should
be number one in small business development. We put out
a plan that will increase the ability for small businesses
(03:05):
to utilize ten ninety nine relationships. So it gives the
upper hand a small business and allows entrepreneurs to be
able to create a business easier and faster and to
be able to employ more people. So you know, there's
a lot of work to do, but it can be done.
We just have to have the right leadership. I mean,
you'll get Speaker Halls doing a fantastic job in the House,
but he's got to get the support from the Senate
and he doesn't have that right now. So we're the only,
(03:28):
as most of your listeners know, we're the only legislative
branch to or chamber to flip last November and a
year from now, we're going to do that in the Senate.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
We have to do it because we have to get
Michigan back on track.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
So let's paint the landscape of the district there where
you're at. Can you explain for folks who are listening,
maybe they might even be in your district, what that covers.
I know it's kind of some of these districts are
cut up a kind of funny here in Michigan, But
can you give us an example what that represents there?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Well, you know, as everyone knows, we got rid of
quote unquote jerry mandering in Michigan by jerry mandering, So
what our district looks like it's about three quarters of
Oadawa County, so break it up into equal quarters. We
are missing the northern eastern quadrant, so we're kind of
like a big l and then we've got a little
(04:19):
sliver of Allgance, so most of Ottawa a little bit
of Alegant. I mean, but this is the heart of
the state. It's the heart of the country. That's why
I love being here and so blessed to have found
this area here twenty years ago, met my wife here,
We've started business and raised our kids here. I mean,
she's been here her whole life and family and you
know that. But Ottawa County, I think is one of
(04:40):
the most important counties for the November election a year
from now. We saw that we had a little bit
less voter turnout in twenty twenty four for Republicans than
we did twenty twenty and it's going to be imperative
we win these statewide races for governor, Secretary of State,
Attorney General, US Senate, you know, the missig again, it's turning.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
We are a I always tell.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
People when I'm talking to people out of the state,
they say Michigan is a purple status. Say no, no,
we're not a purple state. We're a giant red state
with two really big blue dots called Grand Rapids and Detroit.
But you know, President Trump did a lot in Detroit
and was able to start bringing the auto workers back
over to US and made a lot of gains in
(05:22):
Metro Detroit. And you know, we're going to do our
best to be a leader here in Ottawa so we
can start putting pressure on Grand Rapids because we've got
to take Grand Rapids. Background Rapids is really you know,
it doesn't make sense for Grand Rapids to be blue.
I've always told people it's not really blue, it's millennial.
And it's time we start expanding this party bringing millennials
under our tent because you know, they're they're going to
(05:43):
be that next voting block and you know, they certainly
agree with our policies a lot more than they disagree.
And frankly, that's I think why we've gotten the support
we have in this race. So, as you mentioned, like
we ran for US Congress here a couple of years ago,
we were the grassroots can It which I was very
proud to be. But you know, we weren't aligned, I guess,
(06:04):
or we didn't have the support of the establishment. And
I don't mean any disrespect by those two terms. But
in this race, and we've gotten both. We've continued to
maintain the grassroots support like people like Kristin, Meghan Kelly,
Doc Sherry, you know. And of course I'm gonna miss
some people, and I don't mean any you know, disrespect
by that, but we brought on the establishment too, like
(06:26):
former Governor Engler has gotten behind us, Brian postumus gotten
behind us, Charlie Sekia and Tom Leonard and.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
So you know, former Speaker of the House.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
So we've brought together one of the largest coalitions here
that you'll ever see in Ottawa. And as Governor Ingley
said when he endorsed this, he said, you know, Mike,
if you can get every Republican in Ottawa growing in
the same direction, we will be the strongest Republican county
in the state. And that's what we're gonna do. We're
gonna make auDA the strongest Republican county in the state.
(06:55):
We're gonna keep Ottawa red, and we're gonna have Ottawa
deliver victories year from now for our statewide elected and
hopefully you a Senate.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
We're talking with Mike Marky right now running for State
Senate is District thirty one. And as we take a
look at some of the big stories, one of them is,
as you just mentioned, Governor Whimer. This just came the
other day, but to me, I asked these questions of
the folks running for governor and and I'll even you know,
(07:26):
I'll post this to you as as well. But you know,
one of the things I'm really I'm focused on right
now is that particularly President Trump pushing all this investment
back in the United States, make America great again, make
it in America again. Love to see it made in
Michigan again. My question is, you know, from obviously from
(07:49):
a Senate Senate standpoint, what can be done and what
are we what are we able to do to make
sure that we we sort of get out of the way. Unfortunately,
here's another story, Whimer's Michigan Auburn Hills ev supplier closes
lays off two hundred despite four million dollars in Big
Gretz corporate welfare. So in some ways some of that
(08:11):
stuff we want to see go, but also we want
to see the really the playing field cleared so that
this investment that does come into the United States, doesn't
go into places like Indiana instead of Michigan, for example.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Well, I mean leveling the playing field isn't just corporate
welfare a lot of times, it's having the friendly regulatory environment,
which we don't have here in Michigan. We have the
I gotcha regulatory environment where yeah, the government is just
trying to find ways that you've messed up and screwed
up and trying to find you. We saw that right
here in Ottawa County with you know, restaurants Marlena's, you know,
(08:45):
the government trying to shut them down. So you ask,
how can a state Senate, Well, we can fix this
by by having both chambers. So we've got the House.
It's imperative that we take back the state Senate so
we can simplify our regulatory rules to make this a
business friendly state. And business friendly means not changing the
rules every couple of years. Business friendly means bringing back
(09:09):
right to work, getting rid of the prevailing wage, bringing
a lansing body that is encouraging development. It also means
being number one, like I said earlier, in education, because
when you don't have a qualified talent pool and you've
got to try to lure people to move in, which
obviously hasn't worked here in the last twenty years because
people aren't moving into Michigan, they're moving out. And so
(09:31):
when you've got to try to convince somebody to move in,
it's harder and you've got to pay more money. And
then even worse is any given year we've got four,
if not five, of the most deadly cities in the country. Clearly,
you know, Mayor Dougan wants to brag how he's fixed Detroit,
but it was just named as one of the fourth
most violent cities in the country. They only grew by
six thousand people a year ago, and they're bragging about
(09:53):
Detroit is building I mean out of a county here,
I think we grow by more than six thousand people
every six months. So we're doing things far more, you know,
far better over here on this side of the state.
And I think we can use Autawa County as a
gem and as a representative on how you build this
state and fix the state. And so what has Outawa
County done Well, We've had regulate, you know, regulators get
(10:15):
out of the way. We've created that level playing field
for small business and big business. We encourage small business development.
We've got good schools, we've got safe streets. Amazing, it's
not that hard create account If you break the rules,
there's accountability. If you if you don't do well in school,
there's accountability. If you don't do well in business, there's accountability.
(10:36):
It's called you go out of business. So that's what
we have to do in the rest of the state.
Let's take the formula that we have right here in
Outawa County, apply it to the rest of the state,
and what you'll see is the state will start growing.
You will have economic activity, will have business opportunities. Then
I also think it's hard to have big business without
small business. You know, you think about where Ford started.
(10:56):
Ford didn't move here as a big business.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
It grew here.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
It started year So, you know, myself, one of the
things I realized is that being in the financial services industry,
I was able to bring on a lot of people
to work in our organizations ten ninety nine, which meant
I didn't have to which actually meant I could afford
to pay them a lot more. But I didn't have
a guaranteed wage for them. It was basically a meritocracy.
(11:19):
And so as a lot of your listeners know, a
couple of years ago, this out of state money came
into Michigan trying to push on our restaurants this, you know,
getting rid of the tipped wage credit and increasing the
minimum wage. So we came out with an idea that's
going to allow restaurants to have a sub license. They'll
be able to add their tipped workers to their own license,
which will recognize their tipped workers as their own small business,
(11:42):
which allows them to work in a ten ninety nine relationship.
And what's cool about that is now it's a work
around around that getting rid of the tipped wage, it
continues to give them the tax free tips and the
best part is it's going to allow them to then
take advantage of President Trump's small business income tax deduction.
And they're if I didn't come deduction and not pay
tax in the first twenty percent of their revenues.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Michael Market's got lots of ideas, and of course looking
to have conversations I'm sure with you as well. Where
can folks find you either out and about having those
conversations pressing the flesh there or either online.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Well, the easiest places online is right there under my
name Michael Marky Junior dot com.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
It's Michael m. E. R. K e Y Jr.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Dot com. And I guess one of the things favors
I'm going to ask everyone is, you know, we.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Really need your support.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
We need your we need your time and your dollars.
Whether it's five dollars or ten dollars, it does make
a difference. But we want those small dollar donations. We
want that support. We want to be able to show
everyone that there's a groundswell of support here in Ottawa
County because you know, a lot of people talk about it.
I saw in the comments on this morning about Democrats
trying to destroy the conservative base in Ottawa County, and
(12:56):
of course they're trying to. Democrats would love to be
able to say they're making game in the most red
county in the state. So the way that we counter
that as we get involved and we just need your help,
and so we want to show that, you know, we've
got hundreds of donors. We'd like to grow that into
thousands of donors. I don't care if it's a dollar,
two dollars, ten dollars, it's all going to make a difference.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
But then we show them.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
That Autawa's not for sale, and you're not going to
be able to gain those gains in Outawa because we
are going to keep Autawa red and we're going to
be that vashed and that example, that shining star for
the rest of the state and we start to show
a formula the rest of the state.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Ken.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
So Michael Marky Junior dot com. You can find us
on Twitter or x. You can find us on Facebook.
You know, give us a light, give us a follow.
All of that helps with the formulas and the algorithms
as they call it. So you know, we're the only
one right now. I guess there's a college kid, but
really in this race, we're going to keep it that way.
But we just need your guys to support and so
(13:52):
thank you to everyone who's helped us get where we are.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
And you know, thank you to you justin.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
For having a song on your listeners because it's it's
a great show and it's a great asset for the community.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
It's always a pleasure. That's Michael Marky Junior dot com.
If you want to find out more.
Let's talk to Mike Markey, who's running for Senate here
in Michigan State Senate District thirty one on the website Disruptor, Father, entrepreneur.
You know him because he ran for governor in twenty
twenty two. He's been on this show before. No stranger
to the program. Mike, thank you so much for taking
the time to be here.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
With us today, be with you, justin and you know,
thanks for having us on. I mean, you're such a
great resource to your listeners and the community.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Thanking everybody informed.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Thank you, brother. I appreciate that we got a lot
of big problems in not just nationwide, but we got
a lot here in Michigan. I got sort of my
thoughts on what I think those are. But you know
what I'd like to hear is from from you. What
you're hearing from people when you're out talking to folks,
(00:52):
you know, pressing the flesh. I'm sure you get an
ear for what are people most focused on right now.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Oh, you're absolutely right. We have a lot of problems
here at home. I mean, we're the second slowest growing
state in the last ten last twenty years, we've gone
from middle of the pack of education to. You know,
we're fighting to be dead last in third grade reading.
We went from middle in math to fighting to be
dead last for eighth grade math. We've got an affordability
(01:21):
issue with housing, We've got jobs that are leaving. We're
the you know, I guess at least we climbed a
little bit out of the cellar. We were second in
the country on unemployment and we've squeaked to now just
being third. You know, so the third worst state in
the country for unemployment. So the big issues that we
have here is education. We all know that we've got
to you know, we've got to not only improve our
(01:43):
education and give our kids the ability to dream again,
because kids who can't read don't have the same bright
future and aspirations that you know, our generation had.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Because we could read and write, we could do arithmetic.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
We've got another problem with big business. We've got to
not only bring business back here to Michigan, but we've
got a top stop trying to lure them in with
hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars in some cases,
because that just simply doesn't work. What we have to
have is a thriving small business community. You know, Democrats
yell about big business greed and they want to rain
(02:14):
them in by having a big government.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Well that doesn't work.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
So the way the way we fix that is we
have the strongest small business environment in the country and
we've got to bring back manufacturing. It can be done.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
It is being done.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
There was a story the other day of a Michigan
manufacturer and steel.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
That's coming back.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
But you know, the US led the world in manufacturing
here about fifty sixty years ago, and it was Michigan
that led the world, or a Michigan that led the country.
So we've been there before. We can do it again.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
But we have to have the right leadership.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
So we've got to stop saying things like, let's become
better in education, let's you know, become top ten. I
think we need leadership that says, let's make Michigan number one.
We should be number one in third grade reading, we
should be number one in eighth grade math, we should
be number one in small business development. We put out
a plan that will increase the ability for small businesses
(03:05):
to utilize ten ninety nine relationships. So it gives the
upper hand a small business and allows entrepreneurs to be
able to create a business easier and faster and to
be able to employ more people. So you know, there's
a lot of work to do, but it can be done.
We just have to have the right leadership. I mean,
you'll get Speaker Halls doing a fantastic job in the House,
but he's got to get the support from the Senate
and he doesn't have that right now. So we're the only,
(03:28):
as most of your listeners know, we're the only legislative
branch to or chamber to flip last November and a
year from now, we're going to do that in the Senate.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
We have to do it because we have to get
Michigan back on track.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
So let's paint the landscape of the district there where
you're at. Can you explain for folks who are listening,
maybe they might even be in your district, what that covers.
I know it's kind of some of these districts are
cut up a kind of funny here in Michigan, But
can you give us an example what that represents there?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Well, you know, as everyone knows, we got rid of
quote unquote jerry mandering in Michigan by jerry mandering, So
what our district looks like it's about three quarters of
Oadawa County, so break it up into equal quarters. We
are missing the northern eastern quadrant, so we're kind of
like a big l and then we've got a little
(04:19):
sliver of Allgance, so most of Ottawa a little bit
of Alegant. I mean, but this is the heart of
the state. It's the heart of the country. That's why
I love being here and so blessed to have found
this area here twenty years ago, met my wife here,
We've started business and raised our kids here. I mean,
she's been here her whole life and family and you
know that. But Ottawa County, I think is one of
(04:40):
the most important counties for the November election a year
from now. We saw that we had a little bit
less voter turnout in twenty twenty four for Republicans than
we did twenty twenty and it's going to be imperative
we win these statewide races for governor, Secretary of State,
Attorney General, US Senate, you know, the missig again, it's turning.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
We are a I always tell.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
People when I'm talking to people out of the state,
they say Michigan is a purple status. Say no, no,
we're not a purple state. We're a giant red state
with two really big blue dots called Grand Rapids and Detroit.
But you know, President Trump did a lot in Detroit
and was able to start bringing the auto workers back
over to US and made a lot of gains in
(05:22):
Metro Detroit. And you know, we're going to do our
best to be a leader here in Ottawa so we
can start putting pressure on Grand Rapids because we've got
to take Grand Rapids. Background Rapids is really you know,
it doesn't make sense for Grand Rapids to be blue.
I've always told people it's not really blue, it's millennial.
And it's time we start expanding this party bringing millennials
under our tent because you know, they're they're going to
(05:43):
be that next voting block and you know, they certainly
agree with our policies a lot more than they disagree.
And frankly, that's I think why we've gotten the support
we have in this race. So, as you mentioned, like
we ran for US Congress here a couple of years ago,
we were the grassroots can It which I was very
proud to be. But you know, we weren't aligned, I guess,
(06:04):
or we didn't have the support of the establishment. And
I don't mean any disrespect by those two terms. But
in this race, and we've gotten both. We've continued to
maintain the grassroots support like people like Kristin, Meghan Kelly,
Doc Sherry, you know. And of course I'm gonna miss
some people, and I don't mean any you know, disrespect
by that, but we brought on the establishment too, like
(06:26):
former Governor Engler has gotten behind us, Brian postumus gotten
behind us, Charlie Sekia and Tom Leonard and.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
So you know, former Speaker of the House.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
So we've brought together one of the largest coalitions here
that you'll ever see in Ottawa. And as Governor Ingley
said when he endorsed this, he said, you know, Mike,
if you can get every Republican in Ottawa growing in
the same direction, we will be the strongest Republican county
in the state. And that's what we're gonna do. We're
gonna make auDA the strongest Republican county in the state.
(06:55):
We're gonna keep Ottawa red, and we're gonna have Ottawa
deliver victories year from now for our statewide elected and
hopefully you a Senate.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
We're talking with Mike Marky right now running for State
Senate is District thirty one. And as we take a
look at some of the big stories, one of them is,
as you just mentioned, Governor Whimer. This just came the
other day, but to me, I asked these questions of
the folks running for governor and and I'll even you know,
(07:26):
I'll post this to you as as well. But you know,
one of the things I'm really I'm focused on right
now is that particularly President Trump pushing all this investment
back in the United States, make America great again, make
it in America again. Love to see it made in
Michigan again. My question is, you know, from obviously from
(07:49):
a Senate Senate standpoint, what can be done and what
are we what are we able to do to make
sure that we we sort of get out of the way. Unfortunately,
here's another story, Whimer's Michigan Auburn Hills ev supplier closes
lays off two hundred despite four million dollars in Big
Gretz corporate welfare. So in some ways some of that
(08:11):
stuff we want to see go, but also we want
to see the really the playing field cleared so that
this investment that does come into the United States, doesn't
go into places like Indiana instead of Michigan, for example.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Well, I mean leveling the playing field isn't just corporate
welfare a lot of times, it's having the friendly regulatory environment,
which we don't have here in Michigan. We have the
I gotcha regulatory environment where yeah, the government is just
trying to find ways that you've messed up and screwed
up and trying to find you. We saw that right
here in Ottawa County with you know, restaurants Marlena's, you know,
(08:45):
the government trying to shut them down. So you ask,
how can a state Senate, Well, we can fix this
by by having both chambers. So we've got the House.
It's imperative that we take back the state Senate so
we can simplify our regulatory rules to make this a
business friendly state. And business friendly means not changing the
rules every couple of years. Business friendly means bringing back
(09:09):
right to work, getting rid of the prevailing wage, bringing
a lansing body that is encouraging development. It also means
being number one, like I said earlier, in education, because
when you don't have a qualified talent pool and you've
got to try to lure people to move in, which
obviously hasn't worked here in the last twenty years because
people aren't moving into Michigan, they're moving out. And so
(09:31):
when you've got to try to convince somebody to move in,
it's harder and you've got to pay more money. And
then even worse is any given year we've got four,
if not five, of the most deadly cities in the country. Clearly,
you know, Mayor Dougan wants to brag how he's fixed Detroit,
but it was just named as one of the fourth
most violent cities in the country. They only grew by
six thousand people a year ago, and they're bragging about
(09:53):
Detroit is building I mean out of a county here,
I think we grow by more than six thousand people
every six months. So we're doing things far more, you know,
far better over here on this side of the state.
And I think we can use Autawa County as a
gem and as a representative on how you build this
state and fix the state. And so what has Outawa
County done Well, We've had regulate, you know, regulators get
(10:15):
out of the way. We've created that level playing field
for small business and big business. We encourage small business development.
We've got good schools, we've got safe streets. Amazing, it's
not that hard create account If you break the rules,
there's accountability. If you if you don't do well in school,
there's accountability. If you don't do well in business, there's accountability.
(10:36):
It's called you go out of business. So that's what
we have to do in the rest of the state.
Let's take the formula that we have right here in
Outawa County, apply it to the rest of the state,
and what you'll see is the state will start growing.
You will have economic activity, will have business opportunities. Then
I also think it's hard to have big business without
small business. You know, you think about where Ford started.
(10:56):
Ford didn't move here as a big business.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
It grew here.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
It started year So, you know, myself, one of the
things I realized is that being in the financial services industry,
I was able to bring on a lot of people
to work in our organizations ten ninety nine, which meant
I didn't have to which actually meant I could afford
to pay them a lot more. But I didn't have
a guaranteed wage for them. It was basically a meritocracy.
(11:19):
And so as a lot of your listeners know, a
couple of years ago, this out of state money came
into Michigan trying to push on our restaurants this, you know,
getting rid of the tipped wage credit and increasing the
minimum wage. So we came out with an idea that's
going to allow restaurants to have a sub license. They'll
be able to add their tipped workers to their own license,
which will recognize their tipped workers as their own small business,
(11:42):
which allows them to work in a ten ninety nine relationship.
And what's cool about that is now it's a work
around around that getting rid of the tipped wage, it
continues to give them the tax free tips and the
best part is it's going to allow them to then
take advantage of President Trump's small business income tax deduction.
And they're if I didn't come deduction and not pay
tax in the first twenty percent of their revenues.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Michael Market's got lots of ideas, and of course looking
to have conversations I'm sure with you as well. Where
can folks find you either out and about having those
conversations pressing the flesh there or either online.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Well, the easiest places online is right there under my
name Michael Marky Junior dot com.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
It's Michael m. E. R. K e Y Jr.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Dot com. And I guess one of the things favors
I'm going to ask everyone is, you know, we.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Really need your support.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
We need your we need your time and your dollars.
Whether it's five dollars or ten dollars, it does make
a difference. But we want those small dollar donations. We
want that support. We want to be able to show
everyone that there's a groundswell of support here in Ottawa
County because you know, a lot of people talk about it.
I saw in the comments on this morning about Democrats
trying to destroy the conservative base in Ottawa County, and
(12:56):
of course they're trying to. Democrats would love to be
able to say they're making game in the most red
county in the state. So the way that we counter
that as we get involved and we just need your help,
and so we want to show that, you know, we've
got hundreds of donors. We'd like to grow that into
thousands of donors. I don't care if it's a dollar,
two dollars, ten dollars, it's all going to make a difference.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
But then we show them.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
That Autawa's not for sale, and you're not going to
be able to gain those gains in Outawa because we
are going to keep Autawa red and we're going to
be that vashed and that example, that shining star for
the rest of the state and we start to show
a formula the rest of the state.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Ken.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
So Michael Marky Junior dot com. You can find us
on Twitter or x. You can find us on Facebook.
You know, give us a light, give us a follow.
All of that helps with the formulas and the algorithms
as they call it. So you know, we're the only
one right now. I guess there's a college kid, but
really in this race, we're going to keep it that way.
But we just need your guys to support and so
(13:52):
thank you to everyone who's helped us get where we are.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
And you know, thank you to you justin.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
For having a song on your listeners because it's it's
a great show and it's a great asset for the community.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
It's always a pleasure. That's Michael Marky Junior dot com.
If you want to find out more.
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