Rachelle Smit

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Rachelle Smit

| image = Rachelle Smit by Gage Skidmore.jpg

| office = Speaker pro tempore of the Michigan House of Representatives

| term_start = January 8, 2025

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| predecessor = Laurie Pohutsky

| successor =

| state_house1 = Michigan

| district1 = 43rd

| term_start1 = January 1, 2023

| term_end1 =

| predecessor1 = Mike Harris (redistricting)

| successor1 =

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1980|9|16}}

| birth_place = Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S.

| death_date =

| death_place =

| party = Republican

}}

Rachelle Smit is an American politician from Michigan who has represented the 43rd district in the Michigan House of Representatives since the 2022 election.{{Cite web |title=Rachelle Smit |url=https://ballotpedia.org/Rachelle_Smit |access-date=2024-02-08 |website=Ballotpedia |language=en}} She was reelected in 2024.{{cite web|title=2024 Michigan Election Results|url=https://mvic.sos.state.mi.us/votehistory/Index?type=C&electionDate=11-5-2024|publisher=Michigan Secretary of State|access-date=November 24, 2024|date=November 22, 2024|url-status=live|archive-date=November 24, 2024|archive-url=https://archive.today/20241124174348/https://mvic.sos.state.mi.us/votehistory/Index?type=C&electionDate=11-5-2024}}

Tenure

On October 27, 2023, Smit gave a legislative tribute in Allegan County, Michigan, to twin brothers William and Michael Null, who had been acquitted the previous month in connection with the Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot. Gretchen Whitmer's press secretary criticized Smit's statements, saying that the tribute "will further encourage and embolden radical extremists trying to sow discord and harm public officials or law enforcement".{{cite news|last=Aimery|first=Jakkar|date=October 29, 2023|orig-date=October 27, 2023|url=https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2023/10/27/republican-michigan-lawmaker-bestows-tribute-to-two-men-acquitted-in-gretchen-whitmer-kidnap-plot/71350199007/|title=GOP lawmaker bestows tribute to two men acquitted in Whitmer kidnapping plot|work=The Detroit News|access-date=March 24, 2025}}

Rachelle Smit

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