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LIVINGSTON COUNTY REPUBLICAN PARTY

PARTY OFFICERS

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Chair

Rob Rodriguez-Pelizzari 

Rob has spent his career helping businesses navigate new and difficult challenges in order to realize the next level in their growth. 

Rob is a 3rd Degree Knight of Columbus for 25 years, Board Member of Mason Area Right to Life for 20 years, a member of the NRA, as well as being named “Livingston County Republican of the Year” for 2023.

Rob is a founding member of 2A Michigan, and the Michigan 2nd Amendment Sanctuary Counties movement. In a fight against those determined to remove our Constitutional rights, he helped lead the movement that resulted in 2A Sanctuary County Resolutions being passed in 63 different counties.  He has also actively campaigned against overreach in gun laws.

Rob lives in Brighton Twp. with his wife, Anna-Marie, and their traveling cat, Turkey.

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Vice-Chair

Jessica Barefield

Jessica has been a Livingston County resident for 33 years and is a graduate from Michigan State University.  She has been a successful small business owner since 2011.  Jessica became more involved in politics in 2020 and is one of the original founders of  Unmask Livingston County which was founded in 2021.  She was the Executive Assistant to Ryan D. Kelley (former candidate for Governor of Michigan).  She most recently was a candidate herself for Pinckney School Board of Education.  She is a mom of two and has been married to her husband, Brandon for 18 years.  She is extremely excited and honored to be an officer for The Livingston County Republican Party and looks forward to working together as a team to advance the local party and to defeat the democrats!   

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Secretary

Janine Iyer

Janine is a graduate of Wayne State University with a B.S. in Engineering and worked in the automotive industry for seven years before "retiring" to homeschool her two daughters from K to 12.  She has been married for over 31 years and is a 21 year cancer survivor.  She became a politically active resident in Spring of 2020 thanks to Gretchen, and in 2021 stepped up to lead Livingston's County Chapters of Stand Up Michigan (SUM) and We the County (WTC).  In 2022, Janine was elected to the office of Precinct Delegate, joined the LCRP, and was then elected to the LCRP Executive Committee.  She is ready and willing to support the LCRP leadership team and is excited to see to what our team will accomplish over the next two years.

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Treasurer

Jim Dettling

Jim has been a resident of Livingston County (Oceola Township) for over 30 years. He is a graduate of University of Michigan and has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering. Jim began his career in 1973 with Texas Instruments and in 1983 started an engineering services company in Farmington Hills, Michigan with 3 other individuals. He retired as president from Comptek Incorporated in 2017. Jim has been married to Kathy for 50 years and has 4 grown children. He has been a member of LCRP since 2021 and was elected a delegate of Oceola Twp Precinct 1 in 2022. Jim is honored to have been elected Treasurer and is excited to fulfill the duties of the office.

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Youth Vice-Chair

To Be Determined

Bio to come if and when a youth chair is elected.

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