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Carl Marlinga: “We have a vacancy, and we have a backlog in the probate…”

Featuring: Carl Marlinga, Democratic | Former Candidate, U.S. House Michigan, District 10

Meet the Candidates 2022: Carl Marlinga, Candidate for Michigan's 10th Congressional District

Published October 12, 2023 | Video Starts at 05:28

… surprise, because I had never done a lot of probate, but a group of probate bar attorneys came to me and said, in 2012, we really need you to run. We have a vacancy, and we have a backlog in the probate court. and we just think that you're the type of guy that could efficiently hand. So I hemmed and hawed and finally said yes. And I ran, I won. (05:28–05:34)

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“I created special units to help victims of criminal sexual conduct, special units to take care of child victims of crime.”
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“I worked with Senator Debbie Stabenow to get a grant for a thing called the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners program.”
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“When I got there, there were no African American assistant prosecutors.”
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“I was able, over the years, to hire and promote black assistant prosecutors.”
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“There were four women on staff as assistant prosecutors when I first got there, so that would be 7% of the professional staff. By the time I…”
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“I went to probate court, much to my surprise, because I had never done a lot of probate.”
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“A group of probate bar attorneys came to me and said, in 2012, we really need you to run.”
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“We wanted to have a treatment court for people who were in the system because of mental health problems.”
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“We created this felony diversion court so that people who might otherwise be going to prison came.”
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“The people who have graduated never came back and committed another crime. The recidivism rate was zero.”
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“I want to go to Washington, to take what we learned with treatment courts here in Michigan and make it a model for the entire country.”
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“I've been the subject of grossly unfair and untrue attack ads, but we all have.”
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“There is a republican member of Congress who told me that he or she is anxious for me to get to Congress because we've worked together…”
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“The absentee votes are usually counted the last. They don't have to be, but they usually are.”
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“Democrats tend to be the older voters and the voters who tend to vote by absentee ballot.”
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“In this last cycle, everybody in the Democratic Party was urging people to get their votes in and get them in early by going to absentee…”
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“The later ballots tend to favor one party over the other.”
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“We have to get our economy based, again, firmly as being a manufacturing, industrial based economy.”
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“We give too many of our tasks to other countries so that we have the supply chain now where we've got to get things from other countries.”
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“We have to start manufacturing stuff here in the United States again and here in Michigan.”
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“Europe is agonizing about the price of Russian oil and gas.”
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“A heat pump is a device which takes the heat that's in the ground only about 50, 60ft down, maybe even not that far, and brings it up.”
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“It's about 90% cheaper than oil and gas.”
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“We could be the worldwide leader in heat pumps.”
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“There's a headlong dedication to electric vehicles.”
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“The thing that would make their products sell even more...is if people didn't have distance anxiety about how far they can drive their car.”
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“You need some government work on research and development, working with the automobile companies to take advantage.”
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“Government can play a role in mandating a fast charging station everywhere where you have a rest stop on the interstate highway system.”
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“The ultimate goal is to have a booming economy and make a lot of products, and ultimately also to save the planet from the worst effects of…”
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“Nature lavishes upon us every day more energy than human beings could use in a decade.”
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“The center of the earth has the same temperature as the surface of the sun.”
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“There is now a glass that has the photoelectric effect that basically it is a solar panel. But it is clear.”
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