THE U.P. DESERVES SOLUTIONS BUILT FOR THE WAY WE LIVE.
Karl is focused on everyday costs, accessible care, attainable homes, and strong local communities.
These are practical priorities rooted in the Upper Peninsula.
Affordability
Bring down the cost of everyday life
Families should not have to choose between heating the house, filling the tank, buying groceries, and keeping up with the mortgage.
Karl supports reliable and affordable energy, responsible state budgets, and housing policies that protect access for local families. He will keep pressing Lansing to account for the real cost of living in northern and rural communities.
What Karl has done: Karl’s House Bill 6074 was signed into law in 2026, limiting additional single-family home purchases by corporations that already own more than 100 homes in Michigan.
Rural Healthcare
Keep quality care within reach
A long drive should never stand between a family and the care they need.
Karl has defended rural healthcare funding and supported a bipartisan state budget that included $250 million in grants for rural hospitals. He is also working to expand access to licensed mental-health counselors, including through telehealth, under the interstate counseling compact.
Where the work stands: House Bill 4591 passed the Michigan House and was transmitted to the Senate.
Verified sources: Rural-hospital budget, House Bill 4591
Housing
Protect the chance to own a home
The U.P. needs homes for families, workers, seniors, and the next generation of local residents.
Karl’s new law addresses the corporate bulk purchase of single-family homes. It is one step toward keeping housing within reach, protecting community stability, and giving local buyers a fairer opportunity.
Public Act 32 of 2026: The measure passed the Michigan House 102–3 before being signed into law.
Common sense. U.P. first.
Work on local problems. Deliver local results.
Karl believes public service should stay grounded in the people, businesses, schools, hospitals, and communities that make the Upper Peninsula home.
That means protecting local input, supporting first responders, strengthening career and technical education, maintaining roads and infrastructure, and keeping government accountable. It also means keeping the work people sent their representative to do at the center of the conversation.
