10/24/2026
Another reason why we stand with Donna Brandenburg!
Copied from Donna Brandenburg’s telegram
Integrity determines Outcomes
As I start the day thinking about the questions people ask of anyone seeking office, one keeps rising to the surface … campaign promises.
I will not make promises about outcomes. We are on a battlefield of variables, much entrenched resistance by those who don’t want their criminal system to change.
Further, a Biblical perspective on making promises.
James 4:15:
Scripture tells us not to swear by anything, but to let our yes be yes and our no be no (Matthew 5:37; James 5:12). It also warns us not to boast about tomorrow, because we don’t know what tomorrow holds. Instead we should say, ‘If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that’ (James 4:13–15). So I hold myself to a higher standard than a promise: the same conduct, the same motives, and the same convictions every day, whether anyone is watching or not. You don’t have to take my word for what I’ll do someday. Look at what I’ve always done. I’ve never taken a dime from PACs, lobbyists, or corporations. I’ve stood against new taxes, corporate welfare, and utility monopolies running the Capitol. Lord willing, as governor I’ll keep doing exactly what I’m doing now. Judge me by my record, not my rhetoric.
Outcomes will be determined by effectiveness in uniting “We the People”, how fast I can tear down their protection racket, and how many honest people will step up to fill positions.
What I will promise is specific, and non-negotiable:
• I will serve with integrity, honor, and honesty, and with transparency before God and before the people of Michigan.
• I will listen to the people … no favor for lobbyists, not big-money donors, not special interests, and not foreign governments.
• I will take the oath to the Constitution seriously and uphold it to the best of my abilities. I will not treat it as ceremonial language.
• I will give no favor in appointments, contracts, or policy to those who seek special treatment. Decisions will not be for sale.
• I will support bringing charges and accountability against those who break their oath to the Constitution or violate the public trust.
• I will accomplish an unbiased, open evaluation of the state budget, the courts, and legislation that claims the force of law. If it does not stand on constitutional ground, it should not stand. I will nullify.
• I will not quit. The work is hard and the opposition is real; that does not change the commitment.
• I will serve We the People … not a defective administrative system, not corporate interests that treat citizens as revenue sources, and not any other “master.” The proper posture of government is quiet servitude to the people, not the reverse. I will work, to the best of my ability, to move Michigan away from being managed as a revenue generator and toward that posture of service.
Additional commitments that follow from the same principles:
• Full transparency: schedules, major meetings, contracts, and decision rationales will be public by default.
• No backroom deals. Significant policy and spending choices will be explained in plain language so citizens can evaluate them.
• Merit and competence over connections in appointments and contracts.
• Open access: regular, unfiltered opportunities for citizens … not just organized interests … to be heard and answered.
• Defense of the constitutional limits that protect the people from government overreach, at every level.
What I can promise is the character of the effort and the direction of the work: honest, constitutional, accountable to the people, and unwilling to be captured by the interests that already have more than enough influence.
Standing together is not a slogan. It is the only realistic path. If that is the path the people of Michigan are willing to take, then the work can begin in earnest. I am ready to do my part. The rest is up to us … self governance.
