Jim Haadsma

Michigan State House
Representative District 44

Get to Know Jim’s Priorities

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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.

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Fighting for Equal Education

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.

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Investing in Affordable Health Care

The Medicaid expansion has provided lifesaving coverage for our community. I will continue the work to expand Medicaid coverage our community.

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Meet Jim Haadsma

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.

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Yesterday the EPA announced its grant award of $17.8 million to Michigan to purchase 66 electric or low-emission school buses for our school districts.In a week when it’s announced that 2023 was the hottest year on record, this is important news. See MoreSee Less
I know there’s a national championship game on TV tonight, but somebody from my legislative team had to go to tonight’s Clarence Township Board meeting on the other end of the county, and I’m the captain, so that falls to me.I enjoyed it, though, hearing about roads and solar panels and township millages.And the championship game will end the same, whether I watch it or not.It’s like I told our youngest son Jerry, when he was 9 and I was being sworn into my first county board term in 2009, on the same night as that year’s national championship game: “It’ll end up the same, whether you see it or not, so you’d better come to my swearing-in ceremony.”To which 9 years old Jerry answered, “Dad, your swearing-in will turn out the same, whether I’m there or not!”He was right. See MoreSee Less
The Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (“GLERL”) measured the Great Lakes ice cover on New Year’s Day, 2024, and – surprise – the percentage of ice cover compared to the whole of the Great Lakes was only 0.35% this year, the smallest percentage in at least the past 50 years.But, some might point out, the percentage of ice cover in 2019 – remember the Polar Vortex winter? – was 81% of the Great lakes, among the highest ever, so could this year be just an outlier, and mean little?GLERL says this year’s low percentage of Great Lakes ice cover follows a 50 years trend in diminution of that ice cover.Lack of ice cover exposes Great Lakes shoreline to high waves, flooding, and coastline erosion, and to more severe snow storms, say physical scientists.Climate change is the principal factor, per GLERL experts.We can’t live like we did in 1984 or 1994 and expect conditions around us to remain the same. See MoreSee Less

“Michiganders are hardworking people who look out for each other, teach our children well, and power the future.”