Political Experience
In 1984, Lousma ran for the U.S. Senate as a Republican against Carl Levin, the incumbent senator from Michigan, but lost, receiving 47% of the vote. Lousma survived a bitter primary fight against former Republican congressman Jim Dunn to capture the nomination with 63% of the vote. Ronald Reagan's landslide reelection was a boon to Lousma, but he was hurt late in the campaign when video surfaced of him telling a group of Japanese auto manufactures that his family owned a Japanese-made car. This did not play well in the Detroit area.
Read more about this topic: Jack R. Lousma
Famous quotes containing the words political and/or experience:
“...I don’t have an inner drive to do as well as anybody else ... I have a great pleasure in writing and part of that is political and part of that is I’m surprised that I’ve done as well as I have. I really am just surprised.”
—Grace Paley (b. 1922)
“... the basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)