Tuscola County Sample Ballot & Voter Guide 2026

April Osentoski has an educational background in business management and recent certificates in digital marketing and demographic analysis, and has volunteered on the forestry committee in Cass City, per her campaign site.

Andrew Beeler is a Navy veteran and small business owner who graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 2014 and served five years as a Surface Warfare Officer, per the Library of Michigan legislative biography. The same biography lists him as a Michigan House member for the 64th District in the 2023-2024 session.

Brendan J. Johnson grew up on his family's old dairy farm in Fostoria and has worked as a grocery clerk, IT technician, construction laborer, school photographer and licensed chauffeur; today he works full-time in IT, per his campaign site. He centers his campaign on constituent service, pledging to help any resident who gets the runaround from the state on a permit, a license or a question, regardless of how they voted, per the campaign site.

Leslie Getz is a special education teacher running for Michigan House District 67, per the campaign site. She has served as President of the LakeVille Education Association and as a delegate to the Michigan Education Association Representative Assembly, per the campaign site.

Phil Green is the sitting state representative for Michigan House District 67, covering parts of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola counties, per the campaign site. His father served on the Tuscola County Commission and was later a state representative for the 84th District, per the campaign site. Green worked as a youth pastor in Wisconsin, then as a pastor, school coach, and sheriff's office chaplain in New York, where he was nominated for the National Sheriffs' Association Chaplain of the Year in 2011, per the campaign site. He moved to Michigan in 2012 to become School Administrator of Juniata Christian School in Vassar and later became Assistant Pastor at Juniata Baptist Church, per the campaign site.

Jack Bader is a Realtor from Vassar running as the Democratic candidate for the 97th District state House seat, which covers most of Saginaw County plus parts of Bay, northern Genesee, and Tuscola counties, per ABC12 (WJRT).

Briar Bearss is a West Point graduate and Army veteran who now runs a small business and was raised in mid-Michigan, per Bearss campaign site.

Alexander was raised on a dairy farm in Sanilac County and spent 15 years working in small business, retail, building and infrastructure, per the campaign site. Alexander was elected Sanilac County Drain Commissioner in 2008, chairs the Karegnondi Water Authority, and the site says Alexander is in a first term as State Representative, per the campaign site.