If our price comes down, the prices in the stores should come back down. Suchowesky agreed and said she would try to help keep farming viable. A former single mom who received welfare 23 years ago, she said the state needed the reforms of the last few years. Suchowesky said that by making people work to collect benefits, in some cases, has the state paying for day care so the parent can work a minimum wage job. That has the added effect of taking parents away from their children for relatively low pay, she said.
Abortion is one issue on which the two candidates disagree.
Johnson is opposed to abortion except if the life of the mother is in danger. Suchowesky said abortion is not something she would recommend to her daughters and sons, but that women should have the opportunity to make that choice for themselves. The Traverse City Record-Eagle. All rights reserved.