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Personal Narrative: State Senate

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My residence is in Detroit, Michigan. The current mayor of Detroit is Mike Duggan. There are many people apart of the city council, here are their names: James Tate, George Cushingberry Jr., Scott Benson, Andre L. Spivey, Mary Sheffield, Raquel Castaneda-Lopez, Gabe Leland, Janee Ayers, and Brenda Jones. My classmates that live in Michigan all have the same governor, state senator, and state representative. Our governor is Rick Snyder, there are 110 members in the house of representatives, our two state senators are Gary Peters and Debbie Stabenow. Moreover, we all have the same president who is Donald Trump. There are 100 state senators of the United States, 2 for each state. There is a total of 435 representatives for the United

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