Michigan US Senate 2012: Andrew Anuzis on Clark Durant at BlogCon 2011

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Michigan will remain a state to watch in 2012. Last year Republican Rick Snyder won the governor's mansion with 58 percent of the vote and the GOP captured two US House seats. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, a Democrat, is running for a third term, and at first glance seems to be the favorite, but so did Russ Feingold in Wisconsin in 2010. A Republican, political novice Ron Johnson, now holds that seat.

Clark Durant is one of the Republicans seeking to send Stabenow into retirement. Longtime Michigan conservative activist Andrew Anuzis spoke about Durant at FreedomWorks' BlogCon 2011 in Denver.

In the 1980s, Durant turned around a bankrupt state-owned railroad--which had been slated for liquidation--he made it profitable. He co-founded the Cornerstone private schools in education-starved Detroit. And Ronald Reagan appointed Durant to serve as the chairman of the Legal Services Corporation Board. While there, Anuzis said, Durant pleaded with Congress, "Do not raise my budget." A Republican senator, Anuzis informed the audience of conservative bloggers, the since-disgraced Ted Stevens, sent this message to Durant: "You tell Clark Durant to shut up and take an increase like everyone else does."



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Marathon Pundit's Upper Peninsula Upventure



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