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Michigan GOP sidesteps Tea Party showdown on Mackinac

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Possible presidential candidates joined Gov. Rick Snyder and other top Republicans this weekend for the Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference.Rick Pluta of the Michigan Public Radio Network spent the weekend covering the comings and goings of leading GOP figures. He says the Tea Party wing of the party was there, too, but not in big numbers.

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