Up North Progressive

March 6, 2025, will go down as a busy day for Republican State House Rep Tom, a two-year or five-year fight Kunse. In typical Republican fashion, ole Tommy Boy sent mixed messages about supporting Michigan public schools and students.

The day began with an article in the local paper that Kunse was holding an art contest for 100th State House District school students. Then, on the same day, King of Konsistency Kunse joined the other 58 House Republicans in Lansing and voted to defund Michigan public schools.

Every single Republican just voted to defund Michigan schools and kids. #miched pic.twitter.com/OymnCpwXB0

— MI House Democrats (@MIHouseDems) March 6, 2025

Is it possible Tom Kunse isn’t aware that public schools are where students in the 100th State House District will have access to things like art supplies? Some school districts in northern Michigan can’t even afford to have art programs. It’s great that Tom wants to take even more funds away from students.

The theme for Kunse’s art contest is “rural beauty.” Students in the 100th State House District should have no problem finding subjects for their works of art. They can draw and paint pictures of the vacant land in Mecosta County that’s been for sale for 20 years until a company bought it to create 2,300 jobs so their families could have a livable income. There is also that acreage in Clare County Kunse’s family sold for 25 million dollars for a phantom health clinic. Kunse pocketed $3.5 million from that sale for himself—another good place to paint and draw rural beauty in the 100th District. And let’s not forget that piece of Isabella County property that Kunse and a business partner tried to steal in 2006 by piling all of their stuff on it to make it look like it belonged to them.

Hopefully, our young artists in the 100th District will find a pencil stub and clean scrap paper to sketch the rural beauty around us. Made possible by the machinations of our state rep, Tom Kunse. You can tell Tom Kunse what you think of him voting to defund schools and launching a student art contest on the same day. Kunse is holding a virtual town hall on Friday, March 7, 2025, from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM. You may want to call his office at 517-373-7314 or email him at TomKunse@house.mi.gov since the link goes nowhere—an excellent metaphor for Kunse’s regard for school children in the 100th State House District.