Up North Progressive

Michigan’s 37th State Senate District includes the counties of Antrim, Charlevoix, Cheboygan, Chippewa, Emmet, Grand Traverse, Luce, and Mackinac. It spans the Mackinac Bridge and has shoreline on both Lakes Michigan and Huron. It’s the district where Enbridge Line 5 lies in the Straits of Mackinac. The next Senator from this district is Jim Page of Sault Ste. Marie.

Page was born in Mt. Clemens, Michigan. He attended L’Anse Creuse High School North. In 1977 he joined the Marines and served 6 years. After finishing a degree in Science Education at Central Michigan University, he taught Computers and Math at schools in northern Michigan before settling in Sault Ste Marie, where he taught for 24 years. Page retired in 2010 and worked in retail at Kmart and Meijer. He proudly served as union steward for UCFW 951.

Issues Jim Page considers important for his campaign are shutting down Enbridge Line 5. He supports increased funding for public education and diversifying curriculum so students have more options for college prep or vocational education. He supports increasing the minimum wage and strengthening unions. Page also supports eliminating the senior tax that makes it harder for seniors to enjoy a good quality of life in Michigan. He would also restore tax credits that hardest hit the poor and working families when they were eliminated in 2011.

Endorsements for Jim Page include the MEA, Woman2Woman Traverse City, Planned Parenthood of Michigan, UAW Northern Michigan CAP Council, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 951, Clean Water Action Michigan, Indivisible Central UP, Moms Demand Action, and Sierra Club Michigan Chapter.

To learn more about Jim Page visit his website and Facebook page. There, you can learn more about the issues he supports, volunteer and contribute to his campaign to put people first in Michigan on November 6.