Robert Tisch Papers 1978-1997 1980-1982

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Robert Tisch Papers 1978-1997 1980-1982

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Property tax reform advocate in the late 1970s and early 1980s from Laingsburg, Mich.; 1982 Michigan gubernatorial candidate, and founder of the Tisch Independent Citizens Party. Tisch was also active in the U.S. Taxpayers Party. Material pertaining primarily to Tisch's three campaigns to lower property taxes, as well as later political activities. Political files series consists of clippings, constituent correspondence, campaign business (official correspondence, minutes, ballot proposals, speeches), press releases, political cartoons, and copies of the Michigan Taxpayer, the newsletter of the U.S. Taxpayers Party of Michigan.

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Shiawassee County (Mich.). Drain Commission.

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Tisch, Robert.

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Robert Emanuel Tisch (known as Bob Tisch) was a tax-cut crusader mainly active in the 1970s and 1980s. He was known as much for his populist zeal and his direct, often abrasive, style, as he was for the three "Tisch Tax Cut" proposals he fought to have put on the ballot in the 1978, 1980, and 1982 Michigan elections. Tisch was born March 28, 1920, in Jackson, Michigan. During World War II and the Korean War he served in the biological warfare unit of the Army. In the pos...

Tisch Independent Citizens Party.

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U.S. Taxpayers Party of Michigan.

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