Mitt Romney's niece is front-runner for Michigan's GOP National Committeewoman

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EAST LANSING — A niece of 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is seen as the front-runner in a three-way race to succeed Terri Lynn Land as Michigan’s Republican National Committeewoman.

The party’s state committee is to meet in East Lansing on Saturday morning to elect a woman to the unpaid post after Land stepped down to focus on her U.S. Senate race.

Ronna Romney McDaniel, a party activist from Wayne County who worked on her uncle’s presidential campaign, wants the job. So do Sandra Kahn of Saginaw County, who is president of the Republican Women’s Federation of Michigan, and Mary Sears of Houghton County, who is seen as the tea party favorite.

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