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For Detroit City Clerk, Garlin Gilchrist Is The Clear Choice

The city clerk race has become interesting this year. It’s usually a sleeper with candidates nobody really cares about. But between issues around the last general election and a dynamic figure appearing on the stage, it’s been something to watch and research. Gilchrist II may have been an unknown figure to most media, but he was known to us. Before he was running for anything (or we knew he was running for anything), he stopped by our Daily Detroit Happy Hour Podcast to talk about Detroit te...

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The Detroit City Clerk Race May Have Just Heated Up

When it comes to down ballot city races, and this isn’t unique to Detroit, usually it’s a land of zero policy discussions, photos of candidates that are from 20 years ago on billboards, name recognition, personal attacks and inside party games. Basically, all the reasons so many people hate politics. But at least when it comes to a City Clerk, the snore-o-riffic factor might have all changed with the entrance of Garlin Gilchrist II, the City of Detroit’s Director of Innovation and Emerging T...