LANSING, Mich. (AP) — David Hecker wasn't sure what to expect when he showed up at the Capitol earlier this year for a meeting with Rick Snyder, the new Republican governor he had worked to defeat in the 2010 election.
But what he found surprised him: Snyder in an open-necked shirt, ready to talk in detail about a proposal that Hecker's American Federation of Teachers Michigan group had made about teacher tenure and evaluations.
Hecker said it was clear Snyder had analyzed the lengthy email he'd sent on the subject. An hour later, "We walked out saying, 'Well, you know, we're going to be able to have a dialogue with this administration,'" the union president said.
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