[1] On July 18, 2013, Pam Byrnes announced that she will run as a Democratic candidate to challenge Republican Representative Tim Walberg in Michigan's 7th congressional district.
[5] Byrnes ran for re-election to the State House for the final time in November 2008, due to Michigan term limits.
[8] Five days before the election, an article in a Michigan newspaper revealed that the Great Lakes Education Project (GLEP), a Political Action Committee funded in part by Republicans Dick & Betsy DeVos, made two independent expenditures promoting Pam Byrnes and one independent expenditure criticizing her opponent.
In announcing her candidacy, Byrnes stated, "Washington is broken and Rep. Tim Walberg is part of the problem.
Michigan's middle-class is paying the price for his partisan politics that put special interests and corporation before working families.