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John StewartFormer State Rep. John Stewart ended months of speculation this week when he filed papers to run for the Michigan Senate.
“I just couldn’t stay away,” said Stewart, who was term-limited out of the House of Representatives in 2006.
The 7th District includes Plymouth and Plymouth Township, Northville and Northville Township, Canton Township, as well as Belleville, Van Buren Township, Sumpter Township and the downriver communities of Woodhaven, Gibraltar, Trenton, Flat Rock, Rockwood and Grosse Ile.
Stewart, 59, was born and raised in Wyandotte. He served in the Michigan House from 2000-2006, where he was on the Appropriations Committee and the chair of the Appropriations for High Education and the Chair of the Judiciary Committee.
Stewart is an attorney who has operated a practice on Main Street in Plymouth for 25 years. He’ll run as a Democrat-he switched parties shortly after he was term-limited out of office.
“There’s no room in the Republican Party for someone who is pro-choice,” he said.
He said his big issues would be job creation and public education.
State Sen. Bruce Patterson (R-Canton), the incumbent, is term-limited out of the office.
