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Morton E. Milliken...
What do the Republican Party and Detroit have in common? "The tendency on the part of some people to write them off as dead," Michigan Governor William Milliken said to the Republican National Committee in Washington. But, in fact, Milliken contended, both party and city are reviving...
...election marked the further erosion of the two-party system. Ticket splitting was rampant. Unpredictable, independent-minded voters gave Republican Milliken a third term in the Michigan statehouse but ejected G.O.P. Senator Robert Griffin. In Kansas, Republican Governor Robert Bennett was ousted by Democrat John Carlin, but Republican Nancy Kassebaum coasted to an easy victory over her Democratic opponent, Bill Roy, and thus became the only woman to serve in the Senate at the present time...
...things up. In Michigan they chose Democrat Carl Levin, 44, former president of the Detroit city council and a party regular, over Republican Senator Robert Griffin, a skillful parliamentarian and his party's Senate whip. At the same time, Michigan's voters stuck with an able Republican Governor, William Milliken, 56, despite a harsh campaign against him by Democrat William Fitzgerald, who even blamed Milliken for a public scare over Michigan farmers' use of the controversial pesticide PBB. Replied Milliken during the campaign: "It's a terrible thing to pander to people's fears." He finally won with...
...bridging the gap by claiming: "People aren't against every government program; they just want their money's worth." A graduate of Swarthmore College and Harvard Law School Levin is a member of a highly active political family. His older brother Sander twice ran unsuccessfully against Michigan Governor William Milliken, and cousin Charles Levin sits on the Michigan Supreme Court. Levin expects to spend much of his time in the Senate attacking governmental waste and inefficiency...