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Post by Josh Canfield on Mar 6, 2015 1:44:59 GMT
Long mentioned as a candidate for governor or U.S. Senator, Miller’s actual goal was the chairmanship of the House Homeland Security Committee. After the 2012 elections, however, House GOP leaders instead gave the gavel to Texas Rep. Mike McCaul. The reason most often cited Miller’s not getting the chairmanship was that there were already four major committee chairmen from Michigan.
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Post by Josh Canfield on Mar 6, 2015 1:45:24 GMT
The Michiganian did get the chairmanship of the Administration Committee, making her the lone woman at the helm of a House Committee.
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Post by Josh Canfield on Mar 6, 2015 1:45:46 GMT
"And I felt Mike McCaul was a great, great choice for Homeland Security and I’m proud of the work we’ve done at Administration," Miller told Newsmax on Thursday, "But it was also time for me to go home."
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Post by Josh Canfield on Mar 6, 2015 1:47:03 GMT
LaFontaine also is a political trailblazer. In 2010, while studying for her master’s degree in Public Administration, LaFontaine defeated three opponents to win the Republican nomination for a state House seat. That fall, she won a dramatic upset over Democratic Rep. Jennifer Haase and thus became, at 23, the second youngest woman state legislator in Michigan history.
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Post by Josh Canfield on Mar 6, 2015 1:47:29 GMT
Now in her final term permitted under state law, LaFontaine is chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee.
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Post by Josh Canfield on Mar 6, 2015 1:48:01 GMT
"On issues such as the right to life and right to keep and bear arms, you can call me a die-hard social conservative," LaFontaine told us, but quickly added that on other issues she has taken stands different from most conservatives. She supported the state package for revival of economically moribund Detroit and also backed the state’s Medicaid expansion.
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Post by Josh Canfield on Mar 6, 2015 1:48:20 GMT
In a district in which Miller won last fall with 70% of the vote, there are sure to be other Republican candidates. Pete Lund, educator and former three term state representative from Shelby Township, is mentioned. So are State Sens. Phil Pavlov of St. Clair and Jack Brandenburg of Macomb. All are considered conservatives.
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Post by Josh Canfield on Mar 6, 2015 1:48:49 GMT
The lone Democrat mentioned is Macomb County Executive and former sheriff Mark Hackel. But Hackel is also mentioned as a candidate for governor in 2018, when Republican Gov. Rick Snyder must step down.
"I think about the safest thing you can say now is there won’t be a shortage of qualified candidates in the 10th," said LaFontaine.
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Post by Josh Canfield on Mar 6, 2015 1:49:12 GMT
(BY WAY OF DISCLOSURE: The only other woman elected to the Michigan legislature who was younger than Andrea LaFontaine was Colleen House, elected to the House of Representatives at 22; she is the wife of this reporter).
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Post by Josh Canfield on Mar 6, 2015 1:49:28 GMT
I am going to stop at the bottom of page 80
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Post by Josh Canfield on Mar 6, 2015 1:49:52 GMT
even number of pages and over the top amount posts
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Post by Josh Canfield on Mar 6, 2015 1:50:14 GMT
if it makes me a target so be it
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Post by Josh Canfield on Mar 6, 2015 1:50:24 GMT
i will deal with it
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Post by Josh Canfield on Mar 6, 2015 1:50:41 GMT
the only problem the rest of the challenges might be harder
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Post by Josh Canfield on Mar 6, 2015 1:50:59 GMT
so i might be a fool
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