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Like national politicians, state legislators all too often focus on partisanship instead of policy making, engaging themselves in rancorous debate that achieves little beyond gridlock. However, during one short period in Michigan's history, legislators stopped bickering and focused on forging compromise. Daniel Loepp's Sharing the Balance of Power chronicles the 87th Michigan Legislature (1993-1994), in which Republicans and Democrats successfully shared power.
In 1992, Michigan voters elected exactly fifty-five Republicans and fifty-five Democrats to the state house. As a result, the two parties each elected a co-speaker, and a shared power agreement was forged. Given the history of intense partisanship in the state house, political pundits predicted that any plan for shared power would disintegrate within months. What resulted instead was one of the most productive legislatures in Michigan history.
Author Daniel Loepp, chief of staff to Democratic Co-Speaker Curtis Hertel at the time, skillfully takes the reader "inside" the State Capitol, examining the key policy debates (including school finance reform), important personalities, and difficult negotiations. Loepp's balanced presentation is testimony to the two years of bi-partisan cooperation in which he took part.
In an age of public cynicism about the legislative process, Daniel Loepp offers the reader a refreshing story about two co-speakers and their 108 colleagues who came together in the spirit of bi-partisan representation to successfully serve their constituents, the people of Michigan.
Daniel Loepp is a partner in the firm of Karoub Associates, Michigan's oldest multi-client lobbying firm.
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Shane Darrigan
reviewed Sharing the Balance of Power: An Examination of Shared Power in the Michigan House of Representatives, 1993-1994 on July 25, 2020
Sharing the Balance of Power
This history of Minnesota and some of the surrounding region was written originally in 1945 by radical writer, Meridel Le Sueur. In it, she tells the story of Minnesota from the bottom up, somewhat reminiscent of the works of Howard Zinn (though he may have written his histories after this one). We hear of none of Minnesota's political leaders by name, and few of its business leaders; instead, we hear about the lives of workers, farmers, Native Americans, and others as they dealt with what history threw their way. It reads more like a novel, than a history book, but for those of us who have lived here in this state for many years, it gives a good picture of the social underpinnings of our state. A good history of Minnesota that tells its story in a new way, though the book was written about seventy years ago.
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