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Compassionate Conservative

Chelsea’s Rob Turner on human services

by James Leonard

posted 2/23/2012

When Republican Mark Ouimet announced last winter that he was giving up his seat on the ­Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners to run for the state house, Democrats hoped first-time candidate Adam Zemke might take the traditionally Republican district in the county’s northwest corner. At the time, no GOP candidate had stepped forward.

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