Comments on: Tim Skubick: Unknown Wins http://domemagazine.com/blogs Michigan People, Politics, and Policy Thu, 12 Jan 2012 01:01:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Peter Eckstein http://domemagazine.com/blogs/sku062609#comment-2330 Peter Eckstein Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:32:28 +0000 http://domemagazine.com/blogs/?page_id=783#comment-2330 I worked for Frank Garrison for a dozen or so years, and I was saddened that we have lost him. He was a good person to work for. Like Sam Fishman before him, he was always understanding on those rare occasions when family considerations had to come ahead of work. He had a deep concern for the well-being of working people, and contempt for the practice in the one or two unions (fortunately a dwindling number) in which officials who were promoted to one job able to retain title to their old one and receive compensation for both. Frank never could afford to go to college, but I as a Ph.D. never found myself questioning his native intelligence or his ability to apply it to the practical or philisophical issues at hand. I was out of town and out of the email loop between the time he was recovering nicely and his funeral. I was there in spirit, however, silently sharing in the grief of those who were there. I worked for Frank Garrison for a dozen or so years, and I was saddened that we have lost him. He was a good person to work for. Like Sam Fishman before him, he was always understanding on those rare occasions when family considerations had to come ahead of work. He had a deep concern for the well-being of working people, and contempt for the practice in the one or two unions (fortunately a dwindling number) in which officials who were promoted to one job able to retain title to their old one and receive compensation for both. Frank never could afford to go to college, but I as a Ph.D. never found myself questioning his native intelligence or his ability to apply it to the practical or philisophical issues at hand.

I was out of town and out of the email loop between the time he was recovering nicely and his funeral. I was there in spirit, however, silently sharing in the grief of those who were there.

]]> By: Jim Brazier http://domemagazine.com/blogs/sku062609#comment-2325 Jim Brazier Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:07:43 +0000 http://domemagazine.com/blogs/?page_id=783#comment-2325 Tim: The likelihood of an independent winning the governorship is quite low. Minnesota, Maine and Virginia have very different political cultures than Michigan. Minnesota has a multi-party system that has persisted. Maine does too. Virginia does host more than two parties too. Independents in Michigan do far better to win a party primary like Feiger did in 1998. Romney may be seen as an independent but he more a leader of a faction of Republicans. An independent running apart from the two parties is an unusual strategy since the primary system encourages him or her to choose a party primary to win. Tim:

The likelihood of an independent winning the governorship is quite low. Minnesota, Maine and Virginia have very different political cultures than Michigan. Minnesota has a multi-party system that has persisted. Maine does too. Virginia does host more than two parties too. Independents in Michigan do far better to win a party primary like Feiger did in 1998. Romney may be seen as an independent but he more a leader of a faction of Republicans. An independent running apart from the two parties is an unusual strategy since the primary system encourages him or her to choose a party primary to win.

]]> By: Greg Morris http://domemagazine.com/blogs/sku062609#comment-2322 Greg Morris Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:01:30 +0000 http://domemagazine.com/blogs/?page_id=783#comment-2322 Tim, Your remarks about Frank Garrison are on mark, and appreciated by those of us who will miss labor leaders with the good old fashioned DNA. Tim,

Your remarks about Frank Garrison are on mark, and appreciated by those of us who will miss labor leaders with the good old fashioned DNA.

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