Given the question: Information: - Jennifer Mulhern Granholm (born February 5, 1959) is a Canadian-American politician, attorney, educator, author, political commentator and member of the Democratic Party who served as the Attorney General of Michigan from 1999 to 2003 and as the Governor of Michigan from 2003 to 2011. She is currently a MSNBC political contributor. - Richard Marvin "Dick" DeVos Jr. (born October 21, 1955) is an entrepreneur-businessman from Michigan. The son of Amway co-founder Richard DeVos, he served as CEO of the consumer goods distribution company from 1993 to 2002. In 2006, DeVos ran for Governor of Michigan, but lost to the then Democratic incumbent Jennifer Granholm. In 2012, "Forbes" magazine listed his father as the 67th richest person in the United States, with a net worth of approximately $5.1 billion. - The Governor of Michigan is the chief executive of the U.S. state of Michigan. The current governor is Rick Snyder, a member of the Republican Party, who was inaugurated on January 1, 2011, as the state's 48th governor, was re-elected November 4, 2014, and was sworn in for a second term on January 1, 2015. He is not eligible for a third term under Michigan's term limits, which limit a governor to two, four-year terms. - Nancy Cassis ( born January 26 , 1944 ) is an American teacher and psychologist . As a Michigan Senator who initially ran against Dick DeVos , she dropped out of the contest before Michigan 's 2006 gubernatorial Republican primary . In the Michigan Senate she served as the Majority Caucus Chairperson and introduced the Michigan Business Tax , which was eventually repealed by conservative governor Rick Snyder . Cassis is a Novi resident who represented the 15th district . She has a B.A. from Ohio University , where she graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa . She earned her M.S. and Ed.S. degrees from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor , Michigan . The Senator was a teacher from 1966 to 1968 for the Ohio Public Schools . She also was a psychologist for the Novi Community Schools from 1980 to 1996 . Nancy Cassis waged an unsuccessful write - in campaign to be the Republican nominee for the United States House of Representatives in District 11 . Incumbent Thad McCotter was ineligible due to forged signatures . Cassis had pledged to spend at least 200,000 dollars in order to defeat balloted candidate Kerry Bentivolio in the Republican primary . Some Cassis supporters had doubts that Bentivolio would win the general election , while some Bentivolio supporters viewed the Cassis write - in campaign as an effort by establishment Republicans to block the election of a conservative . Bentivolio was elected to Congress . After reading the paragraphs above, choose the best answer for the entity that related to 'nancy cassis' with the relationship of 'member of political party'. Choices: - democratic party - republican party
The answer is:
republican party