Dennis Lennox is an active member of the Berean Bible Church, a non-denominational community church in Topinabee that his family helped found some 28 years ago. Besides being involved with numerous pro-life, pro-family civic organizations, he is a member of the National Rifle Association and Ducks Unlimited.
Lennox learned the importance of faith, family, and country from his late grandparents, who instilled in him the values he holds to this day. As members of the Greatest Generation, who lived through an economic depression unimaginable in contemporary times, they taught him the importance of fiscal prudence and standing up for what you believe.
While working as a professional hockey official in leagues across Canada and the United States, Lennox also worked for President George W. Bush. After President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney were re-elected in 2004, he went on to take positions with Congressman David Camp and Senate Republicans in Lansing.
After gaining first-hand experience in the Legislature, Lennox returned home to serve as chairman of Citizens Against New Taxes, a grassroots coalition that advocates taxpayer rights and fights unnecessary tax increases on working families and small businesses.
He went on to work in the presidential campaign of former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, helping the Michigan native win the state's 2008 presidential primary.
A leader in Republican politics, Lennox was elected by his peers across Northern and Upper Michigan to represent the 31-county 1st Congressional District at the 2008 Republican National Convention, which formally nominated U.S. Senator John McCain and Governor Sarah Palin as the GOP presidential and vice presidential nominees and approved the Republican Party Platform.
Lennox's record includes a series of bipartisan amendments to the Michigan Constitution. His proposals, introduced by Senator Michelle McManus as Senate Joint Resolution I in 2007, modernized government by removing obsolete and archaic provisions of the Constitution. Lennox's amendments overwhelmingly passed the Senate, achieving a final vote of 27-3.
In 2008, running on a platform of reforming local government, Lennox defeated a two-term Democratic incumbent to become Cheboygan County's Drain Commissioner. He was only one of two Republican challengers in all of Michigan to defeat an incumbent Democrat at the county-wide or higher levels.
After taking office, Lennox fulfilled his campaign promise to abolish the office of county drain commissioner by working with county commissioners and legislators in Lansing to develop a bipartisan proposal to allow Cheboygan County to do-away with the office. His proposal was introduced as House Bill 5216 and Senate Bill 758.
As drain commissioner, he reformed a little-known office that had historically operated with little scrutiny from taxpayers.
Lennox moved his office’s operations back to the county courthouse in the City of Cheboygan to ensure greater access to constituents, who were used to interacting with their elected officials in a central location.
Whether it was preserving water resources in the Great Lakes, working with landowners to write an ordinance to ban phosphorus in lawn fertilizers, helping improve local road infrastructure or stopping Lansing from banning recreational walleye fishing in the state’s third-largest lake, Lennox has consistently stood up, and been a voice, for his constituents.
TEXT CREDIT: DENNIS LENNOX FOR CONGRESS EXPLORATORY COMMITTEE
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