BY MIKE KILLLBREATH
CCN Executive Editor
MUNDY TWP. (CCN) — The man who has been leading the charge against the proposed advanced manufacturing plant in Mundy Township has given up his fight, and he's selling his property.
Don Ludwig made the announcement via a social media post just after 11 am today (Dec. 30, 2025).
Ludwig didn't reveal the
BY MIKE KILLLBREATH
CCN Executive Editor
MUNDY TWP. (CCN) — The man who has been leading the charge against the proposed advanced manufacturing plant in Mundy Township has given up his fight, and he's selling his property.
Don Ludwig made the announcement via a social media post just after 11 am today (Dec. 30, 2025).
Ludwig didn't reveal the sale price to the Flint & Genesee Economic Alliance Group but his asking price had been steadily escalated since he listed the property for sale with realtor Layne Lucia.
Ludwig started a page on Facebook for opponents of the plan to build an advanced manufacturing plant near his home. It's now a lightning rod for controversy with political backers of the plan and his neighbors now numbering more than 4,000 members on the page.
Ludwig spoke against the project earlier this year in Lansing when appearing before the State House Oversight Sub-Committee on State Subsidies and Corporate Investments. The committee has been investigating why $259 million in state funding went into the project.
No jobs have yet been created despite early promises of creating thousands of jobs. No buyer has yet been attracted for what Flint & Genesee Economic Alliance Executive Director Tyler Rossenmahler has called the "best site in North America" for an advanced manufacturing plant because of its location near Bishop Airport and major expressways.
Here was the statement posted by Ludwig on his Facebook page: "Today is the day I have been dreading!! On Christmas Eve my wife was in negotiationshI I was not involved the mega site negotiating team dealt strictly with my wife. With that being said this Mega site has put a severe burden on our marriage almost to the point of a divorce. Myself and my wife and my adult children all had a discussion and what to do and the votes five to one for me to stop fighting the mega site and to give in on my property so I can become a father and a husband again! So we did agree to sell and NO it wasn't a million dollars anybody with any computer knowledge will be able to look it up it's within the price range everybody else has received there was no special treatment for us and like I said they wouldn't even talk to me and negotiate with me. There's no side Bag of Money lining our pockets. I'm telling everybody this today because my Christmas was ruined and I did not want to ruin anybody else's Christmas over the holiday. Just before any negative comments there's nobody tougher on myself than me right now I've been in bed for 4 days because of this letting my community down. I put up the best fight I could for 3 years with attorneys thousands of dollars invested equity line of credit and now with the latest attorney would have been over $100,000 with a 33% chance of winning which did take place over several Zoom meetings with myself and 2 other local residents. It's a shame for me to find an attorney It had to been out of state because NO attorney in Michigan wanted to put up the battle. I will continue to do what I do what is right is right and what is wrong is wrong the law is the law and Corruption is corruption. Again this is not about money this is about keeping my family together and my health peace of mind. I truly appreciate everybody that has helped especially the few that I'm in contact with every day talking about the mega site I deal with this constant to try to stay five steps ahead of the development. Again please don't be too hard on me like I said nobody's beating me up more than myself right now this is not how I want to finish I wanted to win! With the progress that's going on and situations that have occurred with my home during their process it's the only right choice my family has decided on. AGAIN IM VERY SORRY DON."
Mundy Township Supervisor Jennifer Arrand Stainton was elected in November 2024 in a landslide victory over incumbent Tonya Ketzler, becoming the first Republican Supervisor in the community since 1919 with a "No Mega Site" campaign pledge to voters.
She told CCN that she sent a personal thank you to Ludwig and gave permission for The Daily Gazette to share it publicly here
The message from Stainton to Ludwig was as follows; "No one is more appreciative of you than me. You are no Megasite and even though you sold I will still continue to keep our community whole and moving forward. But I'm still opposed to the idea of industry in that area. So my fight will continue. Please do not lose touch."
Realtor Lucia said: "I have been with Don the whole way and there was nobody fighting harder for the rights of the citizens than him. Tough decision, but understandable."
Rossenmahler has not yet responded to our request for a comment.
PHOTO CAPTION: Pictured above this story is Don Ludwig.
A search is over by friends of a controversial Fenton podcaster. Dustin Ondovcsikl, host of Law for the Layman on Facebook, has passed away, according to an obituary published online Monday afternoon by Sharp Funeral Home. Ondovcsik was confirmed as dead by a Flint podcaster known as Jason We the People who went to a satellite office of the Genesee County Sheriff's Department in Fenton Township and learned from a deputy that his agency responded to an address and found Ondovcsik deceased. He said a file on a report was locked on his computer, adding to the mystery that began because nobody had heard from the podcaster for more than two weeks. Jason Die-four spoke about his findings at last night's Mundy Township Board of Trustees meeting, prompting Supervisor Jennifer Arrand Stainton to post the following after hearing about Die-four's report. Stainton's post said, until proven otherwise, I'm calling it a questionable death / Murder, release the police report. Why are the records confidential, what is being hidden. I am calling on anyone who received packets of information from Dustin in the event something did happen to him to RELEASE ALL DOCUMENTS as instructed in your packets.
Ondovcsik had made wild claims about public corruption involving numerous local and state officials and had accused Genesee County Sheriff Chris Swanson and Under-Sheriff Mike Ta-karsky of being involved in a child trafficking ring. He had also filed a federal lawsuit over allegations of being beaten at the Genesee County Jail after an arrest for alleged unpaid child support that he disputed.
Sheriff Swanson has not responded to requests for comment. Another federal lawsuit was filed against the Genesee County Sheriff's Department last year by an individual claiming he was raped at the Whaley Children's Center as a child. Isaac Thomas recorded an interaction where he was told by Undersheriff Michael Ta-karski that he could not file a report to Swanson's Ghost team that oversees such predators on children. Sheriff Swanson told CCN at the time that he had no comment on that lawsuit before not reacting to our recent questions about the podcaster's possible death before yesterday's confirmation by the Flint podcaster. Another Flint podcaster, Wyntis Hall of eight ten media, had cited an anonymous source at the Sheriff's Department of saying Ondovcsik was found dead at the home of his parents in Fenton Township. Online comments and reliable sources tell CCN that he committed
BY MIKE KILLLBREATH
CCN Executive Editor
FLINT (CCN) — Flint's embattled 1st Ward City Councilman Leon El-Alamin will stand trial next year on alleged domestic assault charges on March 11. That was decided Tuesday (Dec. 23, 2025) by Genesee County Circuit Court Judge Khary Hanible.
Judge Hanible also denied a motion by El-Alamin to remove hi
BY MIKE KILLLBREATH
CCN Executive Editor
FLINT (CCN) — Flint's embattled 1st Ward City Councilman Leon El-Alamin will stand trial next year on alleged domestic assault charges on March 11. That was decided Tuesday (Dec. 23, 2025) by Genesee County Circuit Court Judge Khary Hanible.
Judge Hanible also denied a motion by El-Alamin to remove his tether after attorney Rolland Sizemore said restrictions are hurting his client's :ability to make a living."
Judge Hanible did rule that El-Alamin can return to the Mt. Morris Township house he owns. It's where the alleged assault took place and attorney Sizemore's filing for his client said his ex-girlfriend has not been there in weeks.
Multiple court filings by El-Alamin used the Mt. Morris Township address as his home.
If he lives there and not in the City of Flint, he's not only ineligible of serving on the city council — he is guilty of a felony under state election laws for committing perjury on his application to get on the ballot earlier this year when winning a special election to fill the remainder of a term by the late Eric Mays. El-Alamin was appointed to replace Mays in March of last year after Mays passed away in February 2024.
Flint City Councilwoman Tonya Burns of the 5th Ward told The Daily Gazette that the alleged beating victim of El-Alamin said while hospitalized that said she had lived off and on at the Mt. Morris Township address for about 10 years.
It was her story to Mt. Morris Township police that led to Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton filing misdemeanor domestic violence charges against El-Alamin, along with a felony count for "Assault with Intent to do Great Bodily Harm Less Than Murder by Strangulation."
MCL 750.84 cites the more serious felony count as involving "intentionally impeding someone's breathing or blood flow by applying pressure to the neck/throat or blocking the nose/mouth, with the aim of causing substantial injury, short of murder." This charge elevates domestic violence or simple assault cases to potential significant prison time of up to 10 years legal experts tell The Daily Gazette that it's treated seriously, strictly due to the high risk of death or severe injury, even without visible marks.
The alleged victim in this case had serious marks indicating strangulation, according to Prosecutor Leyton.
Councilwoman Burns has also called into question why more than a million dollars in grant money has gone to El-Alamin since becoming a council member. She alleges that most of it has been steered to him through Mayor Sheldon Neeley and his supporters on the council.
In a social media post shortly after Judge Hanible ruled that El-Alamin can return to the house in Mt. Morris Township, she posted on Facebook: "Flint City Council members are required to live within our wards. The home he wants to return to is located in Mt., Morris Township that has been set on fire three times within a two-week period. "
Flint community activist Art Woodson has pointed out other funding discrepancies that he argues are "clear violations of the law" and is pushing for Councilman El-Alamin to be arrested. He went to Tuesday's (Dec. 23, 2025) hearing and made a social media post afterward that said: "Let's put the heat on him. i do not like an elected official that straight up lies."
Councilman El-Alamin has not issued any comments to The Daily Gazette since the July 10 incident when first exclusively reporting the incident before charges were handed down.
(See related story: Editor's Notebook opinion on troubled city councilman)
(Related story in today's Metro's Section)
PHOTO CAPTION: Pictured above this story is Flint City Councilman Leon El-Alamin.
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