Dan Kress tells voters he is a proud father who has met many residents and small business owners, which is a fine thing when you’re running for trustee in Clinton Township. What he left out of his campaign literature is that he has met some of those business owners in court, which also is where he spent a fair bit of time trying to avoid getting locked up for failing to pay child support.
Kress, 56, told me Friday in a text message that he is running to fill a vacancy on the board because he was “asked by the Macomb County Republican Party” and hopes to be “a common sense voice on the Board and seek a Property Tax freeze and advocate for all of the other topics listed in my literature.”
We were supposed to speak on the phone Friday about his campaign and the voluminous public record he has created over the past 30 years, but after it became clear I had questions about some of what I gently referred to as a “fair number of legal disputes,” that interview never materialized. More on that later, because the records speak rather loudly for themselves.