Republican National Committeeman From Michigan
During the 2012 Michigan Republican State Convention, the biggest upheaval within the state party in years took place. Delegates ousted Michigan's two members of the RNC, Anuzis and Holly Hughes, replacing them with Dave Agema and Terri Lynn Land. Anuzis was a past candidate for RNC chairman and a player in national Republican politics since 1988. Anuzis lost by a margin of 69% to 30% to challenger Dave Agema. (The remaining 1% of the vote went to Gerald LaRouche.) Notable in this is that the delegation of each of Michigan's 14 congressional districts voted for Agema.
While Washington and Lansing were quick to see the party putsch as a big win for the tea party, some state that it was due to Ron Paul supporters who had never forgiven him for denouncing their candidate shortly after a presidential debate in 2007. While he was serving as state party chair, Anuzis had said he would introduce a resolution to bar Paul from future debates and remove Paul's name from the Michigan ballot.
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