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73rd District Rep. Afendoulis returns to Lansing for 2nd Term

Election polling station sign
Wikimedia | Tom Arthur | CC BY 2.0

It was a three candidate race in Michigan’s 73rd district, but the Republican incumbent, Rep. Chris Afendoulis, was the clear winner with 64 percent of the vote over Democrat Deb Havens, The Grand Rapids small business co-owner and Certified Public Accountant says he’s helped to improve wages and he’s looking forward to working with his Senate partners and the Governor over the next two years.

“I would like to see us as revenues rise there’s always this temptation to spend. And there are a lot of good causes out there but I’d really like to see us become as efficient and effective as possible and, you know, shore up some of the things if we do indeed have higher revenues I really think infrastructure continues to be something I’m very committed to working on.”

Afendoulis says passing the road package was a start. He says he’d like to taker closer look at reforming public pensions to make them 401Ks.   

Patrick joined WGVU Public Media in December, 2008 after eight years of investigative reporting at Grand Rapids' WOOD-TV8 and three years at WYTV News Channel 33 in Youngstown, Ohio. As News and Public Affairs Director, Patrick manages our daily radio news operation and public interest television programming. An award-winning reporter, Patrick has won multiple Michigan Associated Press Best Reporter/Anchor awards and is a three-time Academy of Television Arts & Sciences EMMY Award winner with 14 nominations.