Midland County and portions of Saginaw County are represented by Dave Camp (4th CD), an establishment GOPer who is chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. If you didn’t know it already, Midland is home to the Dow Chemical Company. There is an oil and gas belt that runs through this part of Michigan, starting west of Big Rapids, and lying underneath places like Mount Pleasant and Alma, over to Midland (and presumably out underneath Lake Huron). Dow has been controversial over the years, but the river upon which Midland is located (the Tittabawasee) is cleaner below the Dow plants in Midland than it is upstream.
The long narrow blue strip is CD 5, which is represented by ‘Rat Dan Kildee of Flint. CD 5 takes in the large ‘Rat towns which used to be dominated by General Motors and subsidiaries: Flint, Saginaw and Bay City.
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