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D
ennis Muchmore
never quite gets away
from his job.
"If something goes on in
this town, you are it," he
says. "The job follows you
around."
Mr. Muchmore, whose
Lansing lobbying firm was
hired last month by the Jew-
ish Welfare Federation to go
to bat for the Jewish corn-
munity in the state capital,
doesn't mind the work. In
fact, he thrives on it.
"I work from 7:30 a.m. un-
til 9 p.m. on the average. I
am overscheduled and so are
the legislators. I eat on the
run. It is not easy work. It is
stressful," he says. "It is
what I know how to do. I like
the legislators. And I like
people. This is a people job,
and it never gets dull."
He describes himself as a
classic, type A personality.
"Type A's are over-
achievers," says Mr. Much-
more, 44. "They get their
job done and go on to
the next thing. They don't
remember what they did
yesterday. In this town, if
you worry about the past,
you can't get anything else
done."
Referring to the state
legislature, he says, "There
is constant change. From the
last election, we had 26 new
people come to Lansing. You
can't be too tied to the past."
As Lansing's new set of
eyes and ears for the Jewish
community, Mr. Muchmore
makes no promises. And he
explains this to each pro-
spective client. He won't
work for a client if the match
isn't right.
Mr. Muchmore says his
three-year-old firm is pro-
active and is not interested
in clients who say,' "I don't
want this."
"We want clients who say
`Here's the way things
should be. Can you help
us?' "
On behalf of the Jewish
community, he has toured
Detroit's Jewish agencies,
subscribed to The Jewish
News and met with many
community leaders and offi-
cials. He may bring legis-
lators who are unfamiliar
with the community on
agency tours.
"We will try to set things
up so that there is an
organized effort to share
capabilities of the agencies
to be an influence in Lans-
ing," Mr. Muchmore says.
"The good of what one
organization does ought to
reflect others. We need to co-
ordinate efforts."
Hundreds of line-items on
the state's proposed budget
could impact the Jewish
community, he says. For ex-.
ample, 20 or 30 line-items
relating to Medicaid, trauma
centers and neonatal care
units 'would affect Sinai
Hospital.
"I didn't realize how large
Sinai's neonatal unit was,"
he says. "There are lots of
crack babies out there, and
many mothers without prop-
er pre-natal care.
"It is very expensive and
Sinai does a great job," he
says. "We must make that
"This is a people
job and it never
gets dull."
Dennis Muchmore
more clear to the state
regulators and appropria-
tors?'
"There are substantial
changes in the philosophy of
budgeting going on. And it
will have a tremendous im-
pact on social services," Mr.
Muchmore says. "If you've
got a good program and it
makes sense, you can make
a case before Democrats and
Republicans. You just must
have a bottom line. The
government is not an
endless well."
A former high school
drama teacher in Warren,
Mr. Muchmore was lured to
Lansing as an aide to former
state Sen. John Bowman, a
Democrat from Warren for
whom he helped raise funds.
Sen. Bowman offered a 26-
year-old Mr. Muchmore
$16,000 per year, and he
apologized for the low pay.
Yet Mr. Muchmore, who had
been earning $10,000 in his
teaching post, welcomed the
opportunity and the pay
raise.
"I resigned that day," he
recalls. "I gave it five
seconds thought."
He worked as a legislative
aide for eight years, then
became a consultant to the
Senate Select Committee on
Municipal Finance before
going to work as an ad-
ministrative assistant to two
Senate Finance Committee
chairs.
Before opening his own
firm, Mr. Muchmore lobbied