The Political Power and Influence of Many Small Businesses Working Together
September 5, 2025
On today’s program, Michael Rogers talks with Adrian Hemond, CEO of Grassroots Midwest, a bipartisan, multi-client political and marketing consultancy. He also serves on the SBAM Board of Directors. “The fact of the matter is, a huge multinational corporation is always going to find a way to have their voice heard, right? But a mom and pop dry cleaner in Southgate, or a small marketing agency in Muskegon, or an oil change shop in Lansing, they don’t have the same sort of voice that a huge multinational corporation does, and so the only way that we can make our voices heard as small business owners is together. And of course, that’s one of the great value added of being involved with SBAM is that it aggregates these voices of many diverse small businesses across the state,” he says.
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