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To Self Improvement

Tilting At
Windmills

A candidates' forum becomes an exercise
in bombast when the opponents are no-shows.

HARRY KIRS BAUM

Staff Writer

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s the four Democratic can-
didates assailed their
Republican opponents dur-
ing a candidates' forum
Sunday morning, they did so without
fear of contradiction or retort. The
Republicans were nowhere to be
found.
Geoffrey Fieger, Sander Levin,
Travis Reeds and Maxine Brickner, all
Democrats, spoke to a crowd of about
60 people at Congregation Beth
Abraham Hillel Moses last Sunday.
Their Republican counterparts for
governor, U.S. representatives and
state representative, respectively, had
all pleaded various other previous
engagements.
Levin, running for re-election in
the 12th Congressional district of
southeast Oakland County and south-
west Macomb County, said electing
Republican challenger Leslie Touma

would add to what he called the 150
members of a right-wing Republican
caucus. The caucus, he said, was
responsible for trying to eliminate
low-income energy assistance, abolish
legal services for the poor, abolish the
National Endowments for the Arts
and amend the constitution to allow
organized prayer in the schools.
"Their main theme is extreme, not
mainstream," Levin said boldly. "I'll
be darned if I'm going to allow the
12th District to add another member
to the ranks led by Newt Gingrich
and Dick Armey."
Mentioning the recent murders of a
gay man in Wyoming, and a doctor
who performed abortions in New
York, Levin was asked if there should
be new hate crime legislation. He
replied, "We don't need new laws, we
need the country to come together to
speak out on violence."
Reeds, challenging incumbent Joe
Knollenberg in the 11th
Congressional district, including

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