State Representative Harvey Santana
(D-Detroit) has announced he is forming a Michigan Hispanic Legislative Caucus
for the 2015-2016 session.
Come January, the new Legislature will
potentially contain more office holders of Hispanic descent than ever before.
Representative Santana is joined by current (and likely returning) State
Representatives Henry Yanez (D-Sterling Heights) and Bruce Rendon (R-Lake
City). Additionally, three more individuals who have won their party’s primary
and are heavily favored in the General Election include Erika Geiss, a Taylor
Democrat, Daniela Garcia, a Holland Republican, and Vanessa Guerra, a Democrat
from Bridgeport Township.
The caucus will not technically be the first
Hispanic Legislative Caucus in Michigan as, in 1999, then State Senator Valde
Garcia and then State Representative Belda Garza had a caucus of two.