30 Facts About Patrick Colbeck

Patrick J Colbeck is an American engineer, author, and politician.

Patrick Colbeck is a former Republican member of the Michigan Senate, having represented a northwestern portion of Wayne County from 2011 to 2019.

Patrick Colbeck was born on October 7,1965, in Dearborn, Michigan.

Patrick Colbeck is a graduate of Detroit Catholic Central High School.

Patrick Colbeck later graduated from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor with a Bachelors of Science in Aerospace Engineering in 1987 and a Masters of Science in Aerospace Engineering in 1988.

Patrick Colbeck went on to study Life Sciences for a summer at the International Space University in Strasbourg, France.

Patrick Colbeck was employed by Boeing as a Senior Design Engineer responsible for components of the Environmental Control and Life Support System and Quest Airlock module for International Space Station.

Patrick Colbeck later provided contract systems engineering services to the Department of Defense for work on advanced simulation system for training military forces.

Patrick Colbeck then served as a Management Consultant and President of Perspective Shifts, LLC He launched Tek Made Easy in 2007 to provide SharePoint-based web services for clients.

Patrick Colbeck is married to his wife Angie since 1995.

Senator Patrick Colbeck ran for office during the Tea Party wave of the 2010 elections.

Patrick Colbeck served as the Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee for the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs and State Police budgets.

Patrick Colbeck later had him removed from all committees after Colbeck attended a Right to Life Dinner in the Senate Majority Leader's district.

Patrick Colbeck was successful regarding the state-based exchange effort but, despite a procedural move that temporarily blocked passage, he was ultimately unsuccessful in stopping Medicaid expansion, which is referred to as the Healthy Michigan program.

Patrick Colbeck was responsible for the passage of legislation to expand school choice and he has been a vocal opponent of the Common Core Standards Initiative.

Patrick Colbeck is a co-founder and board member for the Michigan Armed Forces Hospitality Center known as the Freedom Center.

Patrick Colbeck was a vocal critic of government-led healthcare expansion in the state of Michigan.

In 2011, Senator Patrick Colbeck co-founded the MI Freedom Center to serve military personnel, veterans and their families.

In 2015, during the middle of an intense debate over how to fix Michigan's roads, Senator Patrick Colbeck challenged his colleagues to a debate over whether or not it was necessary to increase taxes to fix the roads.

Patrick Colbeck has publicly stated that it is his opinion that wireless technology represents the primary environmental issue of the present day.

Patrick Colbeck was widely criticized in 2018 for his remarks at a public forum featuring former member of the Muslim Brotherhood Kamal Saleem and former Department of Homeland Security affiliated counter-terrorism expert Philip Haney.

Patrick Colbeck made a point of highlighting that Abdul El-Sayed, one of his Democratic Party opponents, was Vice President of the Muslim Students Association at the University of Michigan.

Patrick Colbeck called for the repeal of the Michigan business tax as a freshman state senator, claiming this and other cuts could save the state of Michigan $5.7 billion annually.

On May 31,2017, Patrick Colbeck filed to run for Michigan gubernatorial office to replace the then term-limited Republican incumbent governor Rick Snyder, whose second and final gubernatorial term expired specifically on January 1,2019.

Patrick Colbeck was widely recognized as the most conservative candidate for governor in the 2018 gubernatorial race.

In November 2020, Patrick Colbeck was a certified poll challenger at the TCF Center in Detroit, Michigan.

Patrick Colbeck later appeared at the 2020 Wayne County Board of Canvassers and Michigan State Board of Canvassers certification meetings sharing concerns over unsubstantiated claims of election fraud.

Patrick Colbeck assisted My Pillow founder Mike Lindell in the production of a two-hour documentary, Absolute Proof, that aired on conservative media outlets and social media February 5,2021, asserting Chinese cyber hacking was largely responsible for Joe Biden winning the presidency in 2020.

In June 2021, Patrick Colbeck participated in a rally at Lansing, calling for an audit of Michigan's 2020 election similar to the Arizona audit.

Patrick Colbeck has continued to push his claims of election fraud since the 2020 election, falsely asserting that Dominion Voting Systems' ballot-counting machines were connected to the internet and could have been hacked.