Background
She is the daughter of Dick Posthumus, who served as Lieutenant Governor of Michigan from 1999 to 2003 and was the Republican nominee for governor in 2002.
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Lisa Lyons
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She graduated from Lowell High School and from Michigan State University with a bachelor"s degree in Agricultural and Natural Resources Communications.
Career
She is chairperson of the House Education Committee. Posthumus Lyons describes herself as the fourth generation to own their family’s family farm in Alto. Before being elected to the House, Posthumus Lyons was Director of Public Policy & Community Outreach for the Grand Rapids Association of Realtors.
In the 2010 general election, she beat Frank Hammond with 25,943 votes, to 10,996 for Hammond and 909 for Libertarian Robin VanLoon.
She was re-elected in 2012 (defeating Brian Bosak), and currently chairs the House standing committees on education and on ethics and elections. In 2012, after supporting a Right-to-work law, Lisa Posthumus Lyons went on to propose an amendment exempting corrections officers.
Her husband, Brad Lyons, was a corrections officer at that time. Her response to the alleged conflict of interest was that that Democrats have suggested the same sort of legislation in the past, and that her constituency includes hundreds of corrections officers.
Many considered her remarks disproportionate to the request, and a former teacher of hers sent a letter condemning her use of the phrase.
Her response to criticism was that her remarks were meant for lobbyists (the teacher"s union) and not the teachers themselves.
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