Beginning in the late 1980s, Schmidt was active in the West Grand Neighborhood Organization, becoming a board member and later president.
[1] Schmidt served 16 years as one of two non-partisan commissioners for Grand Rapids' 1st ward, representing the city's northwest side.
Mojzak filed, but when the scheme became public knowledge, growing scrutiny forced him to abandon his "candidacy".
[6] Kent County Prosecutor Bill Forsyth condemned the scheme as a "travesty" that should not have been allowed to happen, but no charges were filed.
He dropped his initial defense that he was acting under the state's "medical marijuana" law, and admitted that he had been supplying "no more than 20" customers who were not his patients.