Another Republican ex-Governor Endorses Kerry

[Killarney]

Yesterday, Minnesota, today Michigan:

http://www.record-eagle.com/2004/oct/18mil2.htm
Statement by William G. Milliken
October 17, 2004

As a lifelong Republican, I have had mounting concern watching this year's presidential campaign. I have always been proud to be a Republican. My Republican Party is a broad-based party, that seeks to bring a wide spectrum of people under its umbrella and that seeks to protect and provide opportunity for the most vulnerable among us.
Sadly, that is not the Republican Party that I see at the national level today.

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As a result, despite my long record of active involvement in the Republican Party, and my intention still to stay in the Republican Party, when I cast my ballot November 2, I will be voting for John Kerry for President.

[Mizmoon]

1. Very nice n/t

[mzmolly]

2. Minnesota? Who?

:shrug:

[Killarney]

5. Yesterday, a Republican ex-governor endorsed Kerry

in an op-ed with a big SLAM on Bush. I forget his name... his last name began with E. He was governor in the 60's. You can probably do a search on 'Minnesota republican endorse' from yesterday and find the article.

[quaoar]

3. Can we make a straight-up trade?

We'll take Milliken if the Repubs take Zell.

[noonwitch]

4. MIlliken is a good guy

He endorsed Clinton, he endorsed anyone who ran against Governor Engler. He's a republican from the days when the GOP was more inclusive of liberals-like Ford or Olympia Snowe.

[Judi Lynn]

6. You bet. I just found a great commendation in google

1/9/2003
Granholm Names Milliken, Kelley to Head Smart Growth Commission
Governor’s decision energizes lively legislative debate
By Jim Lively
Great Lakes Bulletin News Service



Joey Miller/MLUI
Former Governor William G. Milliken, widely regarded as Michigan's greatest environmental statesman, will soon lead a commission to reccommend ways to halt sprawl.
Barely nine days into her first term as Michigan’s new governor, Jennifer Granholm has appointed former Republican Governor William G. Milliken and former Democratic state Attorney General Frank J. Kelley to co-chair a bipartisan commission on land use.

The decision, confirmed by a member of Mr. Kelley’s Lansing-based lobbying group and other officials, puts two of the state’s most respected statesmen at the head of a commission that could significantly change patterns of development in Michigan. Mr. Milliken is widely regarded as the state’s most environmentally conscious governor and in the 1970s proposed legislation to modernize the state’s land use practices in order to conserve natural resources. For his part, Mr. Kelly established an environmental division in his department before there was ever an Earth Day.
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http://www.mlui.org/growthmanagement/fullarticle.asp?fileid=16391

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They REALLY don't have any other Republicans of his quality. What a terrific governor!

[demokatgurrl]

7. But why did these guys wait so long?

By now, even the fatally undecided must have made up their minds.

[Supersedeas]

8. True conservatives w/ a conscience will do the right thing.