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Frankel, the two open judge- ships attracted nine candidates in the August primary. In the Nov. 5 general election, Appel polled 7,886 votes and Gubow had 7,518 to Angela Diggs Jackson's 4,820 and 4,361 for Gil Whitney McRipley. Shelley Goodman Taub of Bloomfield Appel left home that morning at 5:15 Township became the first Jewish a.m. and stood outdoors at the polling Republican woman elected to the state Legislature when she defeated Democrat places from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m. Since January, she said, she has "walked every Shelli Weisberg of Birmingham for the precinct in Oak Park and Royal Oak Township, and attended meet-the-candi- two-year term as dates events in all four areas." Appel 40th District state credited her family for working very representative. hard on her campaign. Taub attributed Gubow, a former state representative her 62 percent vic- whose father was the late U.S. District tory to the issues Judge Lawrence Gubow,--said Nov. 6 she has always sup- that his life hadn't changed with the vic- ported: "education, tory: "I still had to get up this morning, health care for sen- have breakfast with my daughters and iors, lower taxes Shelley Goodman get them off to school." - and a fair shake for Taub Gubow said his first task will be "to business — getting . make sure all my signs are picked up." rid of business reg- In the coming days, he and Appel will ulations." Taub has meet with Judges Friedman, Frankel and served as an Oakland County commis- their staffs "to get the lay of the land." sioner for the past 10 years. Gubow also plans to meet with other "I'm going to hit the ground run- district judges to "pick their brains." ning," said Weisberg, who garnered 38 All new district judges are required to percent of the votes. "Choice and gun attend a meeting in Lansing next week control are important issues we need to and a three-day course in January. The keep on. And we'll be back ... I'll work hard to rally moderates out here for both term of office is six years. parties." Weisberg is serving her second term, University Boards and fifth year, on the Birmingham It doesn't pay a penny, but 10 people school board. wanted to win seats on the University of Michigan Board Of Regents in this year's District Judges election, and another 10 were on the ballot for the Wayne State University One of the biggest upsets of election Board of Governors. night came in Southfield and Beverly The two who most strongly opposed Hills' 46th District Court race. divesting university investments from Incumbent Judge Bryan Levy was nar- the state of Israel took the two available rowly defeated by a young black attor- U-M board positions. ney, Shelia Johnson, 15,369 to 15,082. "I think I won the way I did because It is only the fourth time in the last of the Jewish community," said decade in Oakland county that an Republican Andrea Fisher Newman, the incumbent district judge has been only Jewish candidate and the only defeated. incumbent on the ballot. A winner in the neighboring 45B District Court race, attorney Michelle Friedman Appel, was surprised by Levy's ELECTION on page 24 Shulman received 19,692 votes, corn- pared to 12,722 votes for his Democratic opponent, Stuart Brickner of West Bloomfield. A West Bloomfield township trustee, Brickner said he threw his name into the hat because he believed very strongly that Michigan needed a change — "not just in the governor's office but all the way through." "I'll be running for something else in the future, and so will my wife," Brickner said. (Maxine Brickner lost her bid for a seat on the Oakland County Commission 16th District.) "In the meantime, I have two more years to serve the residents of West Bloomfield as a trustee." • Free estimates while you wait 668890