By Scott Pohl, WKAR
EAST LANSING, MI –
Michigan State University's Board of Trustees will have one more Republican next year.
Voters picked Republicans Mitch Lyons and Brian Breslin over Democrats Colleen McNamara and Dennis Denno on Tuesday. That will remove McNamara from the Board, after two terms and 16 years of service.
Trustee-elect Breslin says he's looking forward to the opportunity to help prepare the university for kids who are ten years old today.
"I't's an eight-year term, and at the end of eight years, I'd like to be able to say that somebody turning 17 or 18 years of age is going to find a university that's better than the one that exists today," he says.
The addition of Breslin and Lyons will leave the Board of Trustees with five Democrats and three Republicans.
The other incumbent, Don Nugent, was not re-nominated by Republicans.