HD106 Incumbent Matthew Gillard (D-Alpena)

by: matt

Fri Aug 26, 2005 at 01:00:00 AM EDT

2008 Status: Term-limited

Campaign Website: Coming Soon

Biography:

State Representative Matt Gillard is a lifelong resident of Alpena. Formerly an attorney with the law firm of Gillard, Bauer, Mazrum, Florip, Smigelski, and Gulden, Rep. Gillard graduated from Wayne State Law School and is a member of the Michigan State Bar. Rep. Gillard also graduated from Albion College with a B.A. in Political Science.

Rep. Gillard is serving his second term in the Michigan House of Representatives. He is committed to creating jobs for Northern Michigan's families. Gillard is serving on the House Oversight, Elections, and Ethics Committee. He is the Vice Chair of the Natural Resources, Great Lakes, Land Use and Environment Committee, and a member of the Conservation, Forestry, and Outdoor Recreation Committee. He is also an appointee to the Governor's Medicaid Long Term Care Task Force.

Rep. Gillard is active with the Alpena Hockey Association, Thunder Bay Soccer Association and many Alpena area charitable organizations. Rep. Gillard sits on the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Alpena Board of Directors. He is also an avid hunter and fisherman.

Rep. Gillard, his wife, Jessica, and their daughter Gracie make their home in Alpena. (Dem Caucus)

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HD106 District Profile

by: matt

Fri Aug 26, 2005 at 01:00:00 AM EDT

District map

General election vote totals:

Year	Dem	Dem #	Dem %	Repub	Repub #	Repub %
2002	MATTHEW GILLARD	16,450	50.7	David E. Wyman	15,984	49.3
2004	MATTHEW GILLARD	25,834	58.3	Richard Fortier	18,498	41.7

Primary election vote totals:

2002 (D) Gillard 4,641 (62.4); Roy Spangler 2,796 (37.6) (R) Wyman 2,556 (31.9); Fortier 1,613 (20.1); Thomas G. Mullaney 1,382 (17.2); David R. Karschnick, Sr. 1,177 (14.7); Jerry Hayes 818 (10.2); Mark J. Hunter 473 (5.9)

Kerry % = 45.3%

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HD106 Former Candidate Howard E. Viegelahn (R-Rogers City)

by: matt

Thu Jun 08, 2006 at 13:46:42 PM EDT

2006 status: defeated.

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Analysis

by: matt

Fri Aug 26, 2005 at 01:00:00 AM EDT

Alan Fox (interview with Matt Ferguson, June, 2005):

AF: These next two seats are actually pretty similar. They're two eastern Lower Peninsula seats, Gillard and (Joel) Sheltrown. Kerry got 45% in each of them, and Gillard won his second term with 58% and Sheltrown won his first term (the family's fourth term) with 57%. Those districts, in some respects, are like the Upper Peninsula in the sense that they're the sort of places where to the extent that Kerry was perceived as an Ann Arbor Democrat and not as an Alpena Democrat, he ran behind normal Democratic strength so that the numbers that show Kerry at 45% may understate the Democratic base. But even in good years, neither of those districts has been heavily Democratic. They've both been very contested. The fact that there are incumbents in both of them may make the Republicans think twice. But you'll have to look at those and think that they'll have somebody going after one or both of those.

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