State GOP Chair candidate Kent Boersema has filled out the Grand New Party’s candidate survey. He is the sixth individual to fill out our candidate survey. Please reach out to state GOP chair candidates and urge them to fill out the survey. It can be accessed here.

Question:

What are your fundraising goals for the 2024 election cycle and how do you plan to raise the money needed to perform the core functions of the state party, such as holding regular political conventions, field staff, and messaging?

Answer:

The goal should be as much as possible. 100 million should be the goal to get a field staff that is big enough to win the state for the presidential candidate and win the senate seat! Messaging will need to change with a focus in new media and other focus other than just tv.

Question:

What strengths will you bring as a leader while serving as the next MRP Chair?

Answer:

I am the only person running for chair that has worked for the party, ran as a candidate, and also consulted candidates. I know what is the best way the party can to help candidates succeed and how the party can assist candidates and campaigns to do what can get overlooked during the heat of campaign battle. In addition I didn’t lose statewide!

Question:

Will you attempt to re-engage the so-called “Donor Class” that has typically funded Republican causes in Michigan in the past? Is it necessary to cultivate an entirely new “Donor Class” to fund MRP operations or can a middle ground be achieved? Please elaborate.

Answer:

I think we need to re engage any supporters who feel they are being left behind. But we can also work to add anyone who is looking to donate or support Republicans and republican candidates. I feel the party chairs position is to not be involved in policy discussions but to have an over arching strategy to win elections and gain the resources needed to have successful campaigns.

Question:

Do you agree with the vast majority of Republican Party elected officials who (like Democrats) pick winners and losers and support centralized planning through corporate welfare schemes, or do you believe in free markets and equal opportunity for all businesses in Michigan? Why?

Answer:

I think as a party leader the bigger issue has been leadership picking winners and lovers in primaries and that has created so much if the feeling of mistrust.

I am personally against any law, ordinance, or policy that specifically assisted certain business or corporations but we should have laws that can assist all companies in a certain field.

Question:

Although both are important, what is more important to you –  unity around Republican politicians or unity around the principles of the Republican Party? Why? (Note: The GNP disavows all third-party candidates)

Answer:

The platform is meaningless and not enforced at any level. So unity around our standard bearer pr candidates is very important because they carry the mantle of our party.

Question:

How will you protect the authority of precinct delegates as party chair and make sure their interests are put at the forefront of the MRP? Will you take our Precinct Protection Pledge to go on the record in support of the rights of precinct delegates and the expansion of those rights for delegates to choose candidates for additional elected offices?  Pledge Available Here.

Answer:

I think they pledge is redundant because there is state laws and statutes that clearly define the duly elected role of precinct delegates.

Question:

The Heartbeat Bill spurred a contentious debate within the Pro-Life movement of Michigan. 

Right to Life of Michigan and the Michigan Catholic Conference argued the heartbeat bill would have jeopardized the 1931 full ban on abortion (MCL 750.14).

The Heartbeat Coalition and Jay Sekulow’s American Center for Law and Justice carefully wrote the heartbeat bill with clause 8(4) that reads “nothing in this act shall be construed to repeal or amend, explicitly or by implication, any provision of law prohibiting or regulating abortion, including, but not limited to… MCL 750.14, 750.15, 750.322, and 750.323.

Who do you believe was right about the Heartbeat Bill and what do you think the Pro-Life movement needs to do moving forward to protect life in the aftermath of the passage of Proposal 3?

Answer:

I think we as a party have not doing any state proposals on the ballot for the last three election cycles. We should work with a proposal to peal back the child sacrifice that was passed in 2022. We need to realize that ballot proposals are a way to get voters out to vote.

Question:

How will you use the authority of the MRP to fight voter fraud in the state of Michigan and make sure that election integrity is restored? How will you effectively fight back against Democrats in power who refuse to enforce the law?

Answer:

We need to realize the voter battlefield is different and we need to adapt or die. Benson and the dems will not enforce any election laws so we need to beat the democrats at their own game. Ballot harvesting is now legal in Michigan. We need to get our voter combines going and harvest those ballots so big the democrats won’t know what hit them.

Question:

With the youth trending toward leftism on social issues, what is your plan to re-engage the youth and reverse this slide toward socialism that puts our nation’s future in jeopardy? Do you believe that Republicans should trend toward the middle or focus on winning the arguments to engage the youth?

Answer:

I think the big part is focus on new media messaging and making sure we are getting our messages in the spaces and areas they are. We have allowed the democrats free range in college towns, inner cities, etc.

Question:

Do you think the Republican Legislature did the right thing in December by not sending strong policies to the governor believing she would veto them or do you think they should have put her on record for vetoing bills–such as ensuring males don’t compete against women in women’s sports? Will you use your power as MRP Chair to compel the Michigan state legislature to support strong legislation instead of coming up with excuses for inaction? How will you use the bully pulpit of the Party to enforce principled behavior by elected lawmakers?

Answer:

The issue with this is that we were decimated in 2022. We lost everything. So we don’t have any options to stop the democrats policy. We used to have citizen initiated legislation and that avenue is now closed as well.

Question:

Will special interest groups and lobbyists influence the MRP? Will they be shut out entirely? Are there any lobbying groups or special interest groups (on issues such as gun rights or abortion) that you feel are worthwhile?

Answer:

Well none of them have supported or endorsed me so I don’t have any feeling toward letting anyone have special access.