Kevin Hogan

Kevin Hogan's career experience includes working as a research scientist. Hogan has been affiliated with the Green Party of Michigan.[1] He earned a degree from the University of Michigan.[2]

Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

I'm a retired research biochemist and substitute teacher for Detroit Public Schools Community District. I was born in Detroit Michigan. I'm a proud son of a Matriarch. I've played and went to school in Detroit, Dearborn Heights, and Dearborn. In college I strung tennis racquets for pocket money, paid for college via work but mainly student loans. After graduation from the University of Michigan - Dearborn. I went on to worked in University of Michigan - Ann Arbor research laboratories and at Wayne State University in one of its research laboratories. My biochemistry experiments have been published in five research papers in human eye disease, aging, and immunology.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

Tax Cuts. My platform is based in the economy. As Michigan Governor Kevin Hogan, I will sign into law tax cuts for seniors, minimum wage earners, and small businesses. I'll sign into law the end of property taxes on fixed income ($35K/year or less) seniors at 70 years of age and give back property taxes on those seniors over 70 years of age starting from the oldest. I'll sign into law cut taxes on minimum wage earners down to as low as no income taxes - they have to be able to meet their basic needs! I will sign into law tax cuts for small businesses. I'd rather have increase small business employment - get taxes from employees - than income taxes from struggling small businesses.Social Justice. I will hire an attorney general - separate from Dana Nessel's Office - that works with me as Michigan Governor Kevin Hogan. I will be looking at injustices in law and law enforcement, in the courtroom, in cold cases, missing persons - "No More Stolen Sister" - recently reporter Erica Erickson reporting on missing persons failed to include missing indigenous girls and ladies - as an indigenous man and biochemist I'm uniquely qualified to understand & help find missing persons.Humanity. 1. Immigration. As an indigenous man I am uniquely qualified to decide who enters the land of my people. 2. Food and Water are basic human rights. I will work with good organizations like Gleaners, Forgotten Harvest, supermarkets, farmers, etcetera to establish a statewide program to provide one free meal (5 food groups) to qualifying persons.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Immigration, (Palestine Statehood, Ukraine Democracy, World Peace), Housing & Basic Human Rights, Free Health Care (Mental Health), Discrimination: Women & LGBTQI Equality, Environmental Issues - clean air, land, and water.

What characteristics or principles are most important for an elected official?

Good working relationships are very important for elected officials. Therefore, the elected official must have good communication skills like listening and hearing what another person is saying. The elected official will need to be respectful and considerate.

What do you believe are the core responsibilities for someone elected to this office?

The elected official has the core responsibilities to uphold the Constitution and to honor promises.

What legacy would you like to leave?

I want my legacy to be consideration.

What is the first historical event that happened in your lifetime that you remember? How old were you at the time?

President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, his assassination! John-John's age.

What was your very first job? How long did you have it?

I worked at a plant nursery for some two years during my senior year in high school and my first year after graduating high school.

What is your favorite book? Why?

The one I'm writing as a biochemist: "Weight Loss and Maintenance Diet by biochemist Kevin Hogan Golden Eagle"

What is something that has been a struggle in your life?

Being hated my entire life on the land of my people!

Governors have many responsibilities, which vary from state to state. Which of those do you personally consider the most important in your state?

I, Kevin Hogan, consider my most important personal responsibility to be protection of people's liberty.

Different states require governors to have different degrees of responsibility for the state budgeting process. If it were your choice, what do you believe is the appropriate degree of gubernatorial involvement with this process in your state?

The appropriate degree of Michigan Governor Kevin Hogan involvement with the state budgeting process would be to get it on the ballot so the people, the taxpayers, the voters, can cast their vote as to the allocation of their taxpayer dollars. It's called a democracy.

In most states, governors have the power to make line-item vetoes. If that is true in your state, what would be your philosophy for how and when to use this power?

As Michigan Governor Kevin Hogan how I would use line-item veto is as a negotiating strategy and when I would use line-item veto would be, for example, to veto pork barreling. Pork barreling doesn't serve the people but a legislator trying to get reelected.

What do you believe is the ideal relationship between the governor and state legislature?

The ideal relationship between me as Governor of Michigan Kevin Hogan and the state legislature is having a good respectful cooperative working relationship; to come to compromise - half & half bargaining to move forward with the people's business.

What do you love most about your state?

Air, Land, and Water. I love the different cultural restaurants - Mexican cuisine, Ethiopian cuisine, Chinese, Japanese, Greek, German, American cuisines, etcetera and their associate cultures. As a scientist I love (Green) industry. I love science and its technology. I can't wait to be invited to tours inside industry latest research and development.

What do you perceive to be your state's greatest challenges over the next decade?

The economy. The state's greatest challenges are to continue research and development of new technologies such that different industries may crop up and grow keeping people working and living the so-called American Dream.

Under what circumstances should the governor of your state be able to use emergency powers?

When there is an emergency!

Do you support or oppose changes to the current state ballot initiative process? If so, what kind of changes would you consider?

I support the current state ballot initiative process. I would, however, make it easier by getting rid of petitions. Instead, I would have the issues in the news put on the ballot for example the state budget and consequentially I would reduce the state legislature to part-time.

A governor is the top executive authority in his or her state. What does that mean to you?

I'm in charge and responsible for everything!

Candidates hear many personal stories from voters. Is there a story that you’ve heard that you found particularly touching or memorable?

"No More Stolen Sisters". As a biochemist ("DNA expert") I'm sure I could make a difference in missing person stories including MIA stories.

What is an accomplishment that you are proud of?

My work as a biochemist. And, as a substitute teacher helping a little Mexican boy with separation anxiety.

What role should your state’s government have in the development or use of artificial intelligence?

Michigan government's role in development and or use of artificial intelligence is leadership. As a scientist I wholly embrace AI. As Michigan Governor Kevin Hogan, I will use AI to bring down costs for example in health care developing new and innovative diagnostic assays - used in biochemistry.

What legislation would you want to sign related to election administration in your state?

As Michigan Governor Kevin Hogan, I would sign into law legislation related to election administration in Michigan that gets rid of discriminatory roadblocks like gathering registered voter's signatures on petitions because it forces candidates to take money from political action committees, PACs, so as to be able to pay some company to gather some 30,000 registered voter's signatures on petitions to get their names on the ballot!

Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

I'm Kevin Hogan, a proud product (son) of a matriarch as such I strongly support women's equality. And I strongly support the LGBTQI (+) Community's equality! As a Biochemist, I worked at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and Wayne State University in Detroit: two of my publications are in the field of Immunology so between school and work I have knowledge and experience with viruses and vaccines. My knowledge and experience with viruses and vaccines is vital to ending The Gretchen Whitmer COVID19 Pandemic and NOT allowing it to become an endemic like the flu.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

I believe in freedom with responsibility, our bodies our decisions with free health care.I strongly believe in Women's Equality and the LGBTQI(+)'s Equality; I'm against bigotry and, in general, wrongful discrimination.I believe in a Free Education System. A more education population will have less violence, less crime.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

01. Institutionalized bigotry. It is a government of the people, by the people but not for all the people.

02. Democracy. We do not have a democracy. We have or they have us in a republic.

03. Education. It is public policy that administrator wrongly establish curriculum.

04. Environment. It is public policy to procrastinate taking corrective measures beyond simply reducing carbon emissions regarding global warming.

05. Animal Rights. It is public policy to treat other animals as less than; not deserving rights!

06. Disabilities and Veterans. It is public policy to ignore people with disabilities including veterans.

07. Economy. In her commercial Gretchen Whitmer tells us that she CANNOT do anything about inflation. Yes, there are things that an executive can do!

08. Transparency. It is public policy to hide information from the public.

09.Taxes. It is public policy to have loopholes in tax laws.

10. The above areas are not listed in their importance to me, THEY ALL MATTER TO ME GREATLY!

What characteristics or principles are most important for an elected official?

Honesty. Hard Working. Accomplishment. Transparency. Compassion.

What qualities do you possess that you believe would make you a successful officeholder?

I'm honest, hardworking, and compassionate.

What legacy would you like to leave?

I made sweeping changes for the betterment of all of us.

What is something that has been a struggle in your life?

Institutionalize bigotry, bigotry. The hate and intentional destruction of my people's way of life on our own land by a hypocritical government and hypocritical people. I told you I was honest.

A governor is the top executive authority in his or her state. What does that mean do you?

It means that I'm responsible. I'm responsible for ending The Gretchen Whitmer COVID19 Pandemic and preventing it from becoming an endemic. I'm responsible for my subordinates. I'm responsible for revitalizing the economy; for inflation. I'm responsible for improving our standard of living. I'm responsible for Flint's clean water. I'm responsible for Flooding of the River Rouge River; the Ecorse Creek; the highways. I'm responsible for the elderly that have no heat in the winter in their residencies. I'm responsible for the homeless that freeze to death every winter. I'm responsible for ...!

Governors have many responsibilities, which vary from state to state. Which of those do you personally consider the most important in your state?

See above..."most important", hmm: life threatening, immediate harm. So, from above, I would go with ending The Gretchen Whitmer COVID19 Pandemic and heating residencies, homelessness, feeding the financially poor and providing clean water and food. After all, clean water is a basic human right - a long time belief of the Green Party! Kevin Hogan, The Next Michigan Governor - Green Party!

Different states require governors to have different degrees of responsibility for the state budgeting process. If it were your choice, what do you believe is the appropriate degree of gubernatorial involvement with this process in your state?

In Michigan, the governor puts out his or her own budget plan. I think this is appropriate... .

In most states, governors have the power to make line-item vetoes. If that is true in your state, what would be your philosophy for how and when to use this power?

Well, since I would be responsible for everything. It seems fair for me as Kevin Hogan, The Next Michigan Governor - Green Party to make the final changes (line-item vetoes) after final negotiations with the state legislature giving them a chance to hear what I would veto. Transparency.

If the governor's office in your state does not have the line-item veto power, do you believe it should? Why or why not?

Yes. Because the Governor is responsible for the final results or lack of results. Gretchen Whitmer is responsible for the 38,000 (according to Johns Hopkins) Michiganians that have died from The Gretchen Whitmer COVID19 Pandemic. (And, I still want to know how many Michiganian children have died from The Gretchen Whitmer COVID19 Pandemic especially since Gretchen Whitmer opened the classrooms to children.)

What do you believe is the ideal relationship between the governor and state legislature?

A third political party Governor to listen fairly to the Republicans and Democrats. I am Kevin Hogan, The Next Michigan Governor - Green Party (a 3rd Party Tie Breaker).

What do you love most about your state?

The land, air, and water: Pure Michigan.

What do you perceive to be your state's greatest challenges over the next decade?

Institutionalize bigotry and Infrastructure. Infrastructure is worsening every day. Michigan is behind the 8 ball in that after the recent insufficient federal influx of money is gone, Michigan will go back to insufficient funding per year to fix the failed Gretchen Whitmer damn roads, bridges, dams, etc.

Under what circumstances should the governor of your state be able to use emergency powers?

Depends, as a published biochemist I would have been qualified to use emergency power relative to COVID19. But clearly Gretchen Whitmer was way, way, way out of her league and should have let the decisions relative to COVID19 be made by the Department of Health. Gretchen Whitmer's ego would not let her share decision making with the Department of Health.