Hello everybody. My name is Kevin Counts and I'm a Constitutional Conservative running for State Rep for the 27th District, which includes Gibraltar, Grosse Ile, Riverview, Southgate, Trenton, and Wyandotte. A little about my background: I've lived downriver for the vast majority of my 50 years of life. I am married to a woman who also grew up downriver and our children were all raised downriver. I am an Army veteran (having served in Mogadishu, Somalia), police officer for nearly twenty-five years, and business owner. What drove me to leave police work and enter politics: Over the last several years, I have watched in awe as Democrat politicians have demonized police officers and then sat back and made excuses as to why police are being killed and resigning in record numbers. They then made excuses as to why crimes rates are soaring, when it was obvious that their rhetoric and antics are the cause. (They are now going on TV and social media to let everyone know that they have always supported police. They are posting pictures of themselves with police officers and fire fighters all over their websites in an attempt to rewrite history before the upcoming election.) These same politicians, put our State in a months long, unconstitutional lockdown. A lockdown that nearly destroyed my family business before we were even able to open the doors. Now that we are approaching midterm elections, just as they did with public-safety, they are trying to rewrite history and have us all forget the harm they caused and the violation of our rights. I am going to fight these people and their flawed ideology and policies with every ounce of my being. We have other challenges in our area and State. In brief, we need to bring safety to our schools - kids cannot learn and teachers cannot educate when they go to school in fear. We need to stop the politicization of our schools and address their substandard performance, which has been a problem for many years. We need stop government policies that give preferential treatment to billion-dollar corporations while ignoring the lifeblood of our economy, small business. And, we need to ensure that the McLouth Steel, Trenton Power Plant, and Solutia sites are safely remediated (at the expense of the companies that own them and not the tax-payers). These sites can then be redeveloped to bring jobs and prosperity to our area. Of course, there are other issues that concern me and others that will come up while I'm in office, but these are my main areas of focus as I head to Lansing to represent you. If you would like to know more or support my campaign, please visit my website - www.electkevincounts.com (you can also find a link to my Facebook page, please like and follow). AND, don't forget to spread the word! Thanks, Kevin