Marjorie Lansing In Race

Marjorie Lansing.C'a political science professor at Eastern Michigan University and long-time worker in the Ann Arbor Democratie Party, has announeed she is seeking the party's nomination in the Second Congressional District. Other announced Democratie candidates include Dr. Edward Pierce, founder of the Summit Street Medical Clinic, and John R. Reuther of Ypsilanti. Assistant Ypsilanti City Attorney Ronald Egnor will announce nis candidacy later this week. The winner of the Democratie primary will face incumbent Republican Marvin L. Esch in November. The Second Congressional District includes Ann Arbor and eastern Washteanw County, Livonia and Monroe County. "In my view, Congress needs an infusión of members from all walks of life - innovators who will tackle and solve the acute problems of Watergate and all that word stands for . . . "Solutions will not come from a demoralized President or his friends in Congress. The Second Congressional District in particular, with more full-time college students than any other district in the country, needs a representative who is more than a fair-weather friend of education - one who votes the same in committee and on the House floor. The incumbent Republican, Marvin L. Esch, votes no more than 50 per cent in the best interests of education. In the face of fiscal crisis and declining enrollments, 50 .per cent is not good enough. "I favor a policy which simultaneously fights inflation and enemploytnent, that stabilizes prices and puts people to work. Specifically, vve need a rollback of fuel and gasoline prices. We need federal action to increase thé refinery capacity of the oil industry. We need a program of price-wage proñt guidelines to hold the Nixon-inspired inflation in check. FinallySve need a tax cut both to stimulate employment and ease the effects of rising prices on family budgets." Mrs. Lansing is also campaigning on a strong women's issues platform and adds, "I believe that the impeachment of Richard Nixon is essential if the Congress and the President are ever again to deserve the nation's faith." Mrs. Lansing has lived in Washtenaw 1 County for the past 25 years, serving I three years as chairwoman of the county I Democratie Party, 10 years as a member I of the Democratie Party's county I tive committee, and one year as the I founding president of the Women's I Democratie Club of Ann Arbor. She was a John F. Kennedy delégate to I the 1960 National Convention, a past I 'member of the Michigan State Central I Committee, a member of the Second I Congressional District finance committee I and the Democratie Women's Caucus. Mrs. Lansing is a member of the I Washtenaw County Task Forcé to 1 duet a two-year study of crime and drugs, a member of the local American Civil Liberties Union Board and chairwoman of the political science section of the Michigan Academy of Letters, Arts and Sciences. She completed her PhD in political science at the U-M in 1970 and has taught at EMU for the past 10 years. She has done research into the role and status of women and minority persons in politics. In 1972, Mrs. Lansing, of 1825 Geddes, ran for U-M Regent, receiving a total of 1,433,755 votes statewide, heading the Dremocratic slate, but losing to Republican Dean Baker. Mrs. Lansing will appear tönight at 8 p.m. at the Power Center at a fund raising speech by Gloria Steinem, editor of Ms. Magazine, to formally begin her campaign.