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Michigan GOP advisor addresses inter-party tension

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Republicans in Michigan and around the country are locked in an intense debate over the party’s direction and priorities.   

 

Recently, internal tensions affecting the party encourage state Democrats over their election prospects in 2014.  Last week, the party leaked a memo describing the Michigan GOP as “coming apart at the seams.”  

 

We thought we’d get the assessment of a longtime Lansing-based Republican consultant.  Steven Linder is the president of the Sterling Corporation.  Sterling currently works on strategy for Michigan’s Senate Republican Caucus.

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