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, she dropped out of the contest before Michigan's 2006 gubernatorial Republican primary. In the

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she served as the Majority Caucus Chairperson and introduced the Michigan Business Tax, which was eventually repealed by conservative governor

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. Cassis is a Novi resident who represented the 15th district. She has a B.A. from Ohio University, where she graduated summa cum laude and

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. She earned her M.S. and Ed.S. degrees from the

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. The Senator was a teacher from 1966 to 1968 for the Ohio Public Schools. She also was a psychologist for the Novi Community Schools from 1980 to 1996. Nancy Cassis waged an unsuccessful write-in campaign to be the Republican nominee for the

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. Incumbent

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was ineligible due to forged signatures. Cassis had pledged to spend at least 200,000 dollars in order to defeat balloted candidate

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in the Republican primary. Some Cassis supporters had doubts that Bentivolio would win the general election, while some Bentivolio supporters viewed the Cassis write-in campaign as an effort by establishment Republicans to block the election of a conservative. Bentivolio was elected to Congress.

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