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Wayne
County
Executive
Warren
Evans
the
latest
Michigan
leader
to
endorse
Bloomberg
for
president
By
HB Meeks
Tell Us
USA News
Network
DETROIT
- On
Thursday,
February
13,
Detroit,
Wayne
County
Executive
Warren
Evans
formally
endorsed
Democratic
presidential
candidate
Mike
Bloomberg.
Evans
has
served
as Chief
Executive
Michigan's
most
populated
county
since
2015. He
also
served
as the
county's
top cop
prior to
his
current
role.
“I’m
delighted
to see
so many
of you
from
Wayne
County
here
today,”
said
Evans.
He
addressed
an
audience
of local
Bloomberg
supporters
and
media at
the
Manor
conference
center
on
Detroit's
east
side.
Evans
believes
that
Bloomberg
can beat
Trump,
and he
says,
'that’s
definitely
what
matters
to me.'
Despite
some
policies
that
seem to
target
people
of color
in a
negative
way,
Bloomberg’s
popularity
continues
to rise
in
America’s
urban
communities.
The
growing
list of
prominent
African
American,
Asian
American,
Latino,
Middle
Eastern,
and
Native
American
politicians,
entrepreneurs,
clergy
and
academics
have
become
quite
impressive
and
somewhat
alarming
for his
political
opponents.
Evans
made it
quite
evident
during
his
endorsement
of
Bloomberg,
saying
that
Michigan
is “a
state we
will
have to
win in
November
if we’re
going to
beat
Donald
Trump.”
Bloomberg,
who is a
billionaire,
built a
media
and
financial
services
empire
before
turning
to
politics,
where he
served
three
terms as
New York
Mayor
from
2002-2013.
During
the time
as
mayor,
Bloomberg
created
a
controversy
with his
'Stop
and
Frisk'
policy
which
targeted
young
Black
and
Hispanic
men.
Under
the
program,
New York
City
police
officers
made it
a
routine
practice
to stop
and
search
multitudes
of these
two
groups
of men
to see
if they
were
carrying
weapons.
Bloomberg
continues
to
apologize
for his
support
for the
practice
when he
entered
the race
late
last
year,
but
comments
from
2015
that
surfaced
earlier
this
week in
which he
defended
stop and
frisk in
stark
terms
renewed
attention
on the
controversial
part of
his New
York
legacy.
Here
is a
recent
list of
Michigan
leaders
who have
endorsed
Democratic
presidential
candidate
Mike
Bloomberg
for
president.
U.S.
Representative
Haley
Stevens
Former
Michigan
Democratic
Party
Hispanic/Latino
Caucus
Chair
Larry
Arreguin
Former
Lansing
Mayor
and
Gubernatorial
Candidate
Virg
Bernero
Former
Adrian
Mayor
Jim
Berryman
Detroit
Councilperson
Roy
McCalister,
Jr.
Van
Buren
Township
Supervisor
Kevin
McNamara
Former
Inkster
Mayor
Byron
Nolen
Business
leader
Juliette
Okotie-Eboh,
Ph.D.
Kent
County
Commissioner
Phil
Skaggs
Former
Flint
Mayor
Karen
Weaver
Romulus
City
Councilperson
Virginia
Williams
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