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Hey everyone, Anthony Eid here. Some of you may remember me from my time on the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission. I posted here during that process and also did an AMA when we were working through the maps, so I wanted to come back and introduce myself in this new role.

I’m running for State Representative in the open Michigan House District 9, which includes Downtown, Midtown, New Center, Corktown, Woodbridge, Belle Isle, and parts of Detroit’s east side (Indian Village, Jefferson-Chalmers, Island view, East English Village, Rivertown, etc- it essentially runs up Jefferson and stops at GP).

A little about me: I’m the son of immigrants, a proud Chaldean American, and someone who has spent my career working on policy, advocacy, and community development in Detroit. My public service started at Wayne State University, where I served as Student Body President and worked on student affordability, mental health services, student representation, and equity issues at the university and the school of medicine.

Today, I serve as Senior Director of Public Policy at Community Development Advocates of Detroit (CDAD) and Director of Policy and Advocacy at COTS. My work focuses on housing, homelessness, affordability, transportation, neighborhood development, and making sure policy is shaped by the people most impacted by it.

I also served on the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission and later became Chair. I helped lead one of the most transparent redistricting processes in the country, defended fair maps through multiple lawsuits, and worked to make sure Detroit and communities across Michigan had fair representation. Today, we quite literally have some of the fairest maps in the country due to my work. Voting rights have been a central part of my public service for over a decade, and with federal protections under attack, I believe Michigan needs leaders in Lansing who actually understand redistricting, representation, and the Voting Rights Act.

My campaign is focused on five main issues:

Housing
Education
Transportation
Affordability
The health of our communities

For me, these are all connected. Housing affects health. Transportation affects access to jobs and school. Education affects economic opportunity. Affordability affects whether people can stay in the neighborhoods they helped build. I will learn on my education (I have a Masters Degree from the WSU School of Medicine, and two Undergraduate degrees) to make data and evidence-based decisions. Many dem candidates talk on these issues, but I am the only one in this race with the experience and policy creation knowledge to get it done.

More than anything, this campaign is about community. My campaign slogan is “Out of Many, We Are One” (from the original motto of our country "E Pluribus Unum) because I believe Detroit is strongest when we stop letting people divide us by neighborhood, race, background, generation, or how long we have lived here. Too often, communities are pushed to fight each other for scraps instead of building power together. I want to bring people together and fight for real outcomes in Lansing. Representation is also important, and if Elected ill be the only Chaldean American in the State Legislature, and the first in history on the democratic side. I see this as a chance to bring in new voters and help win statewide elections.

Another major reason I’m running is because too many good policies passed the Michigan Senate last term but stalled in the House - and HD-9 played a part in that. That includes reforms around voting rights, FOIA transparency, water affordability, maternal health, charter school accountability, and more. Since the seat is open, we now have a chance to take the district in a different direction. I do not want to go to Lansing just to talk about good policy. I want to help get it across the finish line - and I am the candidate who works on this stuff every single day.

The primary election is August 4. Please visit my website and consider donating.

Website: www.voteanthonyeid.com
Donate: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/voteanthonyeid

Socials: antheid & Voteanthonyeid on everything.

/Detroit mods, can we do another AMA sometime? LMK!

Thanks for reading.

Anthony Eid
Candidate for State Representative, HD-9