MLive–

Ingham County Register of Deeds Curtis Hertel, Jr. will run for the state Senate in the 23rd district in 2014, he confirmed to MLive.com Friday.

He has planed a fundraising kick-off event, but said he would not make a formal announcement on his candidacy just yet.

Hertel, Jr. was first elected to his post in 2008 and was reelected in 2012.

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