I am running as a Republican in the primary election on Tuesday, August 7, 2012. Please consider voting for me.

I’ve lived in the Grand Rapids area for most of my life, with an interlude of fourteen years while I earned my Ph.D. from Northwestern University and then taught for ten years at Southern Illinois University. I have been at Calvin College since 1985. My wife and I live in the Reeds Crossing condominium development at the south end of the township. I’ve taken an interest in township government since moving into it, sometimes being one of two or three people in the audience at township board meetings.

See my biography page for more information.

Why am I running? Because I want to make Grand Rapids Charter Township visible to its residents. Ask yourself what do you know about the township you live in. Who is on the township Board? What has the township done in the last six months? If, like most people I have talked with, your answer is “I don’t know,” it is time to elect someone who thinks people should be able to know what their township government is doing. See the goals I will work toward if elected.

Please contact me if you have questions or suggestions or are willing to help my campaign by having a yard sign or talking with your neighbors.