Former Navy SEAL and โFootballโ aide Matt Maasdam is running for Congress in Michiganโs 7th congressional district (centered around Lansing) against first-term Republican Tom Barrett, an Army veteran and former member of the Michigan legislature, who won in 2024 with just 50.3% of the vote.
Maasdam carried the Presidential Emergency Satchel for President Barack Obama from January 2010 to October 2012. Hereโs an article about Maasdam from this past May.
Maasdam is not the first former โFootballโ carrier to run for Congress. Robert โBuzzโ Patterson (USAF, ret.), who famously accused President Clinton of losing his nuclear code โBiscuitโ in January 1998, ran as a Republican in California's 7th congressional district in 2020 and lost.
