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Brandell Adams is from Chicago, Illinois. He has a bachelor's degree from Saginaw Valley State University and is pursuing a master's degree in government from Regent University. He lives in Saginaw, Michigan.

Brandell has worked for the Saginaw Democratic Party since 2015, including serving as its chair. He previously worked as a general manager at Little Caesars. 

Brandell served as a Bridgeport township trustee from 2021 to 2025. He was appointed in 2021 and re-elected twice. 

Meet 35th District state Senate seat candidate Brandell Adams

Believes Michigan needs to diversify its economy and invest beyond manufacturing.

Wants to "preserve good-paying jobs [and] lower the cost of living."

Supports updating and modernizing the housing stock to make housing more affordable.

- Believes Michigan needs to diversify its economy and invest beyond manufacturing.
- Wants to "preserve good-paying jobs [and] lower the cost of living."
- Supports updating and modernizing the housing stock to make housing more affordable.

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As of December 5, 2025, Brandell Adams’s website did not contain information on this issue.

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Supports consistent funding for education.

Advocates for addressing budget shortfalls in schools.

- Supports consistent funding for education.
- Advocates for addressing budget shortfalls in schools.

Education

Wants to improve infrastructure, particularly roads and bridges.

- Wants to improve infrastructure, particularly roads and bridges.

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Energy & the Environment

Believes the current state ballot initiative process is "rigorous" but "accessible enough for Michigan residents to address issues that are meaningful to them."

- Believes the current state ballot initiative process is "rigorous" but "accessible enough for Michigan residents to address issues that are meaningful to them."

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Brandell Adams

- Believes Michigan needs to diversify its economy and invest beyond manufacturing.
- Wants to "preserve good-paying jobs [and] lower the cost of living"
- Supports updating and modernizing the housing stock to make housing more affordable.

- Believes Michigan needs to diversify its economy and invest beyond manufacturing.
- Wants to "preserve good-paying jobs [and] lower the cost of living"
- Wants to improve infrastructure, particularly roads and bridges.
- Supports updating and modernizing the housing stock to make housing more affordable.

Brandell Adams is from Chicago, Illinois. He has a bachelor's degree from Saginaw Valley State University and is pursuing a master's degree from Regent University. He lives in Saginaw, Michigan.

As of December 5, 2025, Brandell Adams did not have a website or any information online.

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Wants to "preserve good-paying jobs [and] lower the cost of living"

Chedrick Greene is from Saginaw, Michigan. He is a father. 

Chedrick is a U.S. Marine veteran. He served for 30 years. He has also worked for the City of Saginaw Fire Department for 26 years.

Supports tax breaks for the working class, including expanding the Working Families Tax Credit and creating a Working Parents Tax Credit.

Supports lowering housing costs by "cracking down on corporate investors who buy up housing stock and drive up prices."

Wants to expand access to job trainings, apprenticeships, and partnerships between skilled trades, colleges, and employers.

Proposes punishing companies that move jobs overseas.

Wants to "eliminate unnecessary and burdensome bureaucracy" for businesses to grow jobs and increase wages.

- Supports labor unions.
- Supports tax breaks for the working class, including expanding the Working Families Tax Credit and creating a Working Parents Tax Credit.
- Supports lowering housing costs by "cracking down on corporate investors who buy up housing stock and drive up prices."
- Wants to expand access to job trainings, apprenticeships, and partnerships between skilled trades, colleges, and employers.
- Proposes punishing companies that move jobs overseas.
- Wants to "eliminate unnecessary and burdensome bureaucracy" for businesses to grow jobs and increase wages.

Supports funding for public safety including mental health programs and violence intervention programs.

- Supports funding for public safety including mental health programs and violence intervention programs.
- Supports gun control legislation.

Supports lowering the cost of prescription drugs and healthcare by improving Michigan's consumer protection and price gouging laws and holding Big Pharma accountable.

Supports expanding hospital financial assistance programs and banning medical debt from impacting credit scores.

Supports access to abortion, in vitro fertilization (IVF), and contraception.

- Supports lowering the cost of prescription drugs and healthcare by improving Michigan's consumer protection and price gouging laws and holding Big Pharma accountable.
- Supports expanding hospital financial assistance programs and banning medical debt from impacting credit scores.
- Supports access to abortion, in vitro fertilization (IVF), and contraception.

Supports free universal pre-kindergarten and funding for free school lunches.

Supports investing in public schools and policies to keep qualified teachers, reduce class sizes, and improve literacy.

Wants to boost student support including "basic needs, tutoring, and mental health counseling."

- Supports free universal pre-kindergarten and funding for free school lunches.
- Supports investing in public schools and policies to keep qualified teachers, reduce class sizes, and improve literacy.
- Wants to boost student support including "basic needs, tutoring, and mental health counseling."

Supports infrastructure investments and revitalizing neglected communities.

- Supports infrastructure investments and revitalizing neglected communities.

As of December 5, 2025, Chedrick Greene’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Supported Michigan's voting rights reforms passed in 2018 and 2022.

- Supported Michigan's voting rights reforms passed in 2018 and 2022.

Chedrick Greene

Dr. Martin Blank is a trauma surgeon at Covenant HealthCare in Saginaw. He is a retired U.S. Army Colonel who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. He also worked as a Saginaw police officer.

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Martin previously ran for the Michigan House of Representatives in 2020 and for the Michigan State Senate in 2022 but did not win. 

Plans to make agriculture a top priority again.

Plans to "make agriculture a top priority again."

- Plans to "make agriculture a top priority again."

As of December 5, 2025, Martin Blank’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Supports protecting local land-use control, the Right to Repair, and investing in infrastructure and rural broadband to support agriculture.

Supports protecting local land-use control, the Right to Repair farm equipment, and investing in infrastructure and rural broadband to support agriculture.

- Supports protecting local land-use control, the Right to Repair farm equipment, and investing in infrastructure and rural broadband to support agriculture.

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Martin Blank

As of December 5, 2025, Martin Blank did not have a website or any information online.

Dr. Martin Blank is a trauma surgeon at Covenant HealthCare in Saginaw. He is a retired U.S. Army colonel who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. He also worked as a Saginaw police officer.

Supports electing Democrats at all levels of government.

Pamela Pugh - Ballotpedia

Pamela Pugh was born in Newton, Mississippi. She has a bachelor's degree from Florida A&M University and a graduate degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Her family moved to the City of Saginaw when she was 15 years old, where she attended Saginaw High School and then Delta College.

Pamela is a public health advisor and education advocate. She served as the Chief Health Advisor for the City of Flint. She also worked as a scientist and has held leadership roles in education policy, including serving as President of the Michigan State Board of Education.

Pamela is currently an at-large member of the Michigan State Board of Education. She was first elected to the board in November 2014 and took office in January 2015. She was re-elected in 2018.

Supports policies that enable businesses to hire more workers and pay higher salaries, and advocates for affordable childcare and an expanded Child Care Tax Credit to prepare workers for "21st century jobs."

Advocates for affordable childcare and an expanded Child Care Tax Credit to prepare workers for "21st century jobs."

Supports increasing the minimum wage and fair compensation practices to reduce income inequality.

Supports policies that enable businesses to hire more workers and pay higher salaries.

- Advocates for affordable childcare and an expanded Child Care Tax Credit to prepare workers for "21st century jobs."
- Supports increasing the minimum wage and fair compensation practices to reduce income inequality.
- Supports policies that enable businesses to hire more workers and pay higher salaries.

Plans to address public safety by expanding opportunity, promoting safety, and improving environmental and health outcomes in underserved communities.

Supports expanding opportunity, promoting safety, and improving environmental and health outcomes in underserved communities.

- Supports expanding opportunity, promoting safety, and improving environmental and health outcomes in underserved communities.

Supports abortion access and wants to "codify access to reproductive freedom by passing a national law mandating coverage for abortion care."

Supports creating a pathway to affordable college degrees and ending the student loan debt burden.

- Supports a federal ban on book bans.
- Supports creating a pathway to affordable college degrees and ending the student loan debt burden.

As of December 5, 2025, Pamela Pugh’s website did not contain information on this issue.

- Supports addressing the climate crisis.

Pamela Pugh

- Supports increasing the minimum wage and fair compensation practices to reduce income inequality.
- Supports policies that enable businesses to hire more workers and pay higher salaries.

Pamela Pugh was born in Newton, Mississippi. She earned a bachelor's degree from Florida A&M University in 1996 and a graduate degree from the University of Michigan in 2001. She earned a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 2014. Her family moved to the City of Saginaw when she was 15 years old where she attended Saginaw High School and then Delta College.

Pamela is a public health advisor and education advocate. She served as the Chief Health Advisor for the City of Flint, where she responded to the Flint Water Crisis. She also worked as a scientist and has held leadership roles in education policy, including serving as President of the Michigan State Board of Education.

Pamela is currently an at-large member of the Michigan State Board of Education. She was first elected to the board in November 2014 and took office in January 2015. She was re-elected in 2018 and her current term ends on January 1, 2031. Pugh is running in a special election to the Michigan State Senate to represent District 35. She is on the ballot in the special Democratic primary on February 3, 2026.

As of December 5, 2025, Pamela Pugh did not have a website or any information online.

Serenity Salak — Donate via ActBlue

Serenity Hope Salak is from Michigan. She is a wife and a mother.

Serenity is a coach, teacher, and caseworker.

Meet 35th district Senate candidate Serenity Hope Salak

Serenity's campaign for Michigan State Senator, District 35 is her first time running for public office.

As of December 5, 2025, Serenity Hope Salak did not have a website or any information online.

Supports "responsible" gun ownership and "common sense" gun reforms.

- Supports "responsible" gun ownership and "common sense" gun reforms.

Supports legislation that would move Michigan closer to a single-payer healthcare system.

Supports legislation that would "move Michigan closer to a single-payer healthcare system."

- Supports legislation that would "move Michigan closer to a single-payer healthcare system."

Supports expanding Pre-K to include 3-year-olds and removing income limits on day care assistance.

- Supports expanding Pre-K to include 3-year-olds and removing income limits on day care assistance.

Supports "buying back" infrastructure projects, like the Bay City bridges, from private companies.

- Supports "buying back" infrastructure projects, like the Bay City bridges, from private companies.

Serenity Hope Salak

I’m a lifelong Michigan resident residing in Saginaw Township. I’m a wife, mother, coach, teacher, caseworker and community builder running for Michigan Senate District 35.

Serenity's campaign for Michigan State Senator, District 35 is her first entry into politics.

Supports expanding pre-kindergarten programs to include three-year-olds and removing income limits on daycare assistance.

William Morrone earned a bachelor 's degree in anthropology and psychology from the University of Wisconsin, a master 's degree in toxicology from the University of Missouri, and a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine from Michigan State University. He and his wife have been married for 21 years.

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William is the medical director of Recovery Pathways, where he leads addiction treatment and recovery services. He has been a practicing physician for over 20 years. He also serves as an Associate Professor of Family and Community Medicine at Michigan State University, a role he has held for 25 years. Earlier in his career, he was the Program Director of the Family Medicine Residency at Synergy Medical Education Alliance. Additionally, he served as the Director of the Saginaw Chippewa Tribal Family Court and as Medical Director for Hospice of Michigan.

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William's campaign for Michigan State Senator, District 35 is his first time running for public office.

Supports protecting benefits for retirees and the elderly.

Wants to "protect and uplift" labor unions.

Supports decreasing food and energy costs and investing in jobs that "pay a living wage."

Wants to expand affordable housing, investment in homebuilding, and support for first-time home buyers.

Supports policies that "protect renters from price gouging and ensure transparency in leasing practices."

- Supports protecting benefits for retirees and the elderly.
- Wants to "protect and uplift" labor unions.
- Supports decreasing food and energy costs and investing in jobs that "pay a living wage."
- Wants to expand affordable housing, investment in homebuilding, and support for first-time home buyers.
- Supports policies that "protect renters from price gouging and ensure transparency in leasing practices."

- Supports addressing the opioid epidemic.

Supports expanding Medicaid navigators to help families understand their options, connect with providers, and access care without "getting lost in red tape."

Supports reducing emergency room wait times and strengthening primary care to prevent doctor shortages.

Wants to "protect affordable healthcare."

- Supports expanding Medicaid navigators to help families understand their options, connect with providers, and access care without "getting lost in red tape."
- Supports reducing emergency room wait times and strengthening primary care to prevent doctor shortages.
- Wants to "protect affordable healthcare."

As of December 5, 2025, William Morrone’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Supports improving infrastructure and believes the gas tax should only be used to fix roads and bridges.

Supports collaborating with the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) for grants and funding, and Michigan universities to improve design and project management.

- Supports improving infrastructure and believes the gas tax should only be used to fix roads and bridges.
- Supports collaborating with the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) for grants and funding, and Michigan universities to improve design and project management.

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William Morrone

William Morrone earned a bachelor 27s degree in anthropology and psychology from the University of Wisconsin, a master 27s degree in toxicology from the University of Missouri, and a doctor of osteopathic medicine from Michigan State University. He lives with his wife and their children in Bay City, Michigan.

William is the Medical Director of Recovery Pathways, where he leads addiction treatment and recovery services. He has been a practicing physician for over 20 years. He also serves as an Associate Professor of Family and Community Medicine at Michigan State University, a role he has held for 25 years. Earlier in his career, he was the Program Director of the Family Medicine Residency at Synergy Medical Education Alliance. Additionally, he served as the Director of the Saginaw Chippewa Tribal Family Court and as Medical Director for Hospice of Michigan.

William's campaign for Michigan State Senator, District 35 is his first entry into politics. 

As of December 5, 2025, William Morrone did not have a website or any information online.

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