About Dr. Dan Ewart

Hi, my name is Dan Ewart and I am running for Michigan's 73rd House District. I am a Michigan native, born and raised in the area. I spent my childhood growing up in Lansing, East Lansing, Haslett, and Williamston. I attended East Lansing schools when I was in elementary school, and Haslett for middle and some of high school. We moved to Williamston — where I graduated high school — when I was a sophomore. 

I was born to a single parent teenage mother and graduated high school with a 1.9 GPA. With a lot of faith and determination, I finished my Doctorate of Musical Arts with a focus on pedagogy in 2017. I published my first article on my thesis in the NATS Journal of Singing and have been teaching avidly at the collegiate level as a college professor as well as privately in the greater Lansing area as well as in Cincinnati, Ohio and Chicago, Illinois. My students routinely enter top programs in the nation under scholarship, more than $2 million in scholarship offers given to students in total. I’ve also sung professionally throughout the United States and Internationally in concerts and operas in a multitude of languages and amongst a wide variety of cultures and people.

I believe the youth are our future. 

I strongly believe that the youth of our nation have been misled and need a new message. We need to give them the adventure of our lives, before everything becomes so convoluted. We need to push trades, military service, religious vocations, creating a family, marriage, and traditional family values tried and proven to create a beautiful and harmonious society. The endless push for a college education only creates debt and a lot of young people with no better job prospects as a result of their debt, as compared to (previously considered) traditional careers. 

I stand for life and family. 

Growing up, I heard more often than not from family, friends, and teachers that children born to my circumstances would be better off aborted. I take great solace in the fact that I have proven this narrative to be totally false, and I am driven to protect babies in the womb so that they can have access to all of the same opportunities I had. Circumstances of conception should not dictate the ability to live freely in America. 

I am strongly supportive of our veterans.

I have multiple veterans in my family, both grandfathers, uncles, cousins. And I have many friends who have served valiantly for our nation. I believe our veterans need more visibility, help from the community, and reforms to the VA as well as funding the VA to effectively help those who were willing to sacrifice everything for us. We should do much more than we have.

What will I do?

Considering the needs of a community to foster these values, I would call upon the tradespeople, farmers, construction workers, machinists, mechanics, police, fire, EMS, military recruitment and offices, the ROTC, and local churches and religious organizations to share with our young people the fruits of careers not often pushed anymore in community events. I would also prioritize funding traditionally earmarked for public education that is continually failing its student body and mired in bureaucracy and corruption to go towards programs that can provide a young person a career making closer to $80 to $100k a year after a short two year apprenticeship as compared to a lengthy college degree. As a part of this focus to get young people better skills for the job market, I want to fund a police academy, a fire academy, and the EMS programs in this district for young people who would rather pursue service to our community over a college education.

I will encourage our youth to go to local retirement homes and veterans events to provide for the community in service initiatives. By actually meeting the demographics too easily labeled and not clearly identified, we would foster real connections between people that need each other’s help. Oftentimes the elderly and our veterans fight silent battles of despair and pain, when a simple act of kindness can take someone out of a hellish existence for a while and give them a brighter shining light for the next day. And I would also prioritize funding to help grow these events into something that would exist beyond my time serving in the House.

I will organize events with the community to aid in pregnancy resource centers, with pro-life charitable organizations, and local hospitals and other social services to encourage young people to fill in some of the gaps for the people in our community that want to raise their children well but lack the support. We spend far too much money in the government with far too little return and a message that the best we can do is offer contraception and abortion. Community events are cheaper, have a greater impact, and actually change lives for the better rather than destroy them. 

I will continue to look for waste, fraud, and abuse in the government to get money back into the pockets of taxpayers facing enormous pressures from inflation and a struggling job market. 

The Democrats continue to promote raising our taxes and taking more of our money to line the pockets of special interest groups that don’t help our community. I’d bring our community together and see what problems we can face without government intervention to ensure what government funding that would be applied, would be applied appropriately and transparently. 

I believe in America, I believe in our youth, and I believe we can make the 73rd district into an example of what we can do together as a community rather than blindly sacrifice our taxes to an institution that has consistently proven to waste them. I believe we know how to spend our money better than the government does. It’s time for a new direction, we’ve reached a turning point. Let’s show our community what it looks like to make something rather than rail on about an ideology that creates nothing but fear and division.