MEET RON KOKINDA 

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I am an America First Republican who has spent my life fighting for the policies that will restore America as a manufacturing superpower.

I grew up on a dairy and horse farm in upstate New York and received my bachelor’s degree from the State University of New York. In 1971, when President Nixon removed the dollar from the gold-reserve system, I joined the movement founded by Lyndon LaRouche, because I understood then what millions of Americans understand now: that abandoning national economic sovereignty and handing power to the financier elite would lead to exactly the kind of decline we see today. LaRouche warned that such policies would end in fascism. He was right.

From that time on, I have fought for space, energy, science, and economic programs that put production and industry before Wall Street speculation.

I am also the owner of a small business. I know what it means to meet a payroll, deal with regulations, and fight to keep a business alive in a state that too often works against you.

My wife, Susan Wagner Kokinda, grew up in Allen Park. Her father and grandfather worked for the Ford Motor Company. Her mother was the executive secretary of the Allen Park Chamber of Commerce for forty years. This community is our family’s home. We’ve watched it struggle under the weight of policies that shipped jobs overseas, drove up energy costs, and left working families behind.

I’m running for State Representative because I believe the decline can be reversed — and because I’ve spent fifty years preparing to do exactly that.