Michigan’s Schuette Takes Both Sides of Detroit’s Bankruptcy
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Bill Schuette was forced to leave Washington after losing his House seat in a failed bid for the U.S. Senate in 1990. He returned to his native Michigan, seeking lesser political jobs to slowly rebuild his career.
Now, as Michigan’s attorney general, he has a national platform courtesy of Detroit’s bankruptcy, where the Republican has weighed in on the side of state pensioners, seeking to protect their fixed incomes from any reductions by intervening in the case.