Representative Jim Haadsma is running for re-election in MI State House District 44.
Jim Haadsma
Michigan State House Representative District 44
Get to Know Jim’s Priorities
Creating Jobs and Economic Equity
Everyone should have access to good-paying jobs that allow them to earn a good living, raise a family, and retire. Those jobs are harder and harder to come by.
I will work to ensure our public schools have the resources they need to teach our children and teachers are paid the competitive salaries they deserve.
State Representative Jim Haadsma is a native of Muskegon and has lived in Battle Creek for close to four decades. He has fought and won for hardworking people and their families for 38 years to ensure they get fair treatment and equal opportunity in the workplace as a lawyer. As State Representative for District 44, he has continued that work.
Last fall I participated in at least 4 different candidate debates (by the way, significantly fewer in number than when I first ran in 2016), and most of these were at best modestly attended.No journalists appeared at any of these debates – nobody as in past years when the Battle Creek Enquirer, Marshall Chronicle, public radio station WMUK, and WBCK may have had journalists present.Nobody heard the other guy say – in responses to questions about Project 2025 in at least two separate debates – that Project 2025 was irrelevant because candidate Trump claimed he hadn’t read Project 2025 and Trump didn’t know anything about Project 2025.What can you say about a candidate’s dismissal of Project 2025 as an issue because he believes candidate Trump’s disavowal of Project 2025?What can you say about a candidate’s discernment when he’s gullible enough to believe anything a serial liar says? … See MoreSee Less
I'm carrying on 1st Saturday Coffee Hours tomorrow, Saturday, January 4, 2025, at Mr. Don's Restaurant, 341 N. 20th Street, Springfield, MI, 49037, between 9 am and 11 am, and then at Stirling Books & Brew, 119 N. Superior, between 1 pm and 2 pm.We'll talk culture, politics, music, movies, food, and upcoming local events – whatever it is about which you and our community of friends wants to talk.I'll buy coffee and a breakfast sandwich or brownie.Please phone me if you need a ride: 269.317.5502 (cell). … See MoreSee Less
Propagandists try to ascribe a cage-free chicken law tweaked in 2019 (from an originally-passed 2009 bill) and taking effect at the end of 2024 to an increase in the price of eggs.Take it from the MI Allied Poultry Ass’n, though: “Will the egg prices go up because of our cage-free law? I don’t think so.”Instead, the Poultry Ass’n places the cause of increased egg prices to bird flu, and farmers’ challenges in controlling bird flu outbreaks, and consequent limitations in supply.That’s right – it’s a basic supply & demand issue, Economics 101. … See MoreSee Less
“Michiganders are hardworking people who look out for each other, teach our children well, and power the future.”
