BAY CITY, MI – One of the 10 state Senate candidates seeking the vacant 35th District seat in a special 2026 election was once convicted of an aggravated assault for having stabbed a man in the back with a knife causing life-threatening injuries.

Chadwick Earl Twillman, 39, is one of four people who filed as a Republican to run for the seat vacated by Kristen McDonald Rivet when she resigned 10 months ago to take a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives .

Court records from Maricopa County, Arizona, show that in September 2006, Twillman, then 19, was charged with aggravated assault. Speaking with MLive/The Bay City Times Tuesday, Oct. 7, Twillman said the conviction and the one-year jail sentence that came from it made him a better person.

“I more so see it as serving as an asset t

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