Senator Jim Runestad's Press Releases

By Sen. Jim Runestad 23rd Senate District he United States, like every nation on earth, has immigration laws. The reason these laws exist is because every nation — at least in theory — recognizes that to protect the interests of their citizenry, there must be limits and criteria in the admission of new immigrants. Ensuring that newcomers do not become public charges has been an explicit

LANSING, MI — State Sen. Jim Runestad on Thursday voiced his support for the rights of Michigan parents to homeschool their children in response to recent challenges from prominent Democrats. On Dec. 5, the chair of the state House Education Committee took to social media to call for the mandatory registration of all homeschoolers in the state in response to Attorney General Dana Nessel’s announcement of

By Sen. Jim Runestad 23rd Senate District Next month will mark three years since President Joe Biden took office. In that relatively brief time, we have learned a lot about how not to run a country. That is especially true with regard to immigration policy — considering some 6.2 million people have crossed our border illegally since Jan. 20, 2021, and many of them have been

LANSING, MI — In an effort to increase government transparency and accountability, state Sen. Jim Runestad on Wednesday proposed a series of amendments to legislation designed to implement financial disclosure requirements approved by voters with Proposal 1 of 2022. “These financial disclosure bills are hardly even a small first step in bringing about the real transparency reforms that are needed to rebuild public trust in state

LANSING, MI – State Sen. Jim Runestad on Tuesday sent a letter to Judge Nanci Grant urging her to sentence Derrek Miller to the fullest extent of the law. Miller is set to be sentenced Wednesday for his role in the corruption case against former Macomb County Prosecutor Eric Smith. He is set to be granted a plea deal, which will result in a deferred misdemeanor

LANSING, MI — State Sen. Jim Runestad on Tuesday announced he is drafting anti-corruption legislation to close the problematic “consultant loophole” used by former House Speaker Rick Johnson, who was recently sentenced to prison time for his role in a bribery scandal that also included two marijuana-industry lobbyists and an Oakland County businessman. “This loophole within the state’s lobbying laws is apparently big enough to drive