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Mike Duggan

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first: 2024-06-13
most recent: 2024-06-13
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“By a police officer, eight different people he shot as an officer and was cleared in every single case. And so when I got elected, the first thing I did was say for every officer involved shooting scene, I'm sending prosecutors to the scene and we are going to run an independent investigation, which infuriated the Detroit police union and the police chief at the time. But when you're on the scene, you see witnesses, you see all kinds of things. And an interesting thing started to develop. In some cases, we prosecuted the cops. In many cases, we cleared the cops because they'd acted appropriately. But the anger in the city started to calm down because all people want is the truth. But the problems in the department were so deeply ingrained that Mayor Dennis Archer asked the Justice Department to come in and put the Detroit Police Department under a consent order, which would happen.”
2024-06-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Mayor Mike Duggan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I never wavered when the defund the police protest started, I said we are not defunding the police in the city of Detroit. I have yet to be in a community meeting where anybody in Detroit neighborhoods say I want fewer cops. The people who were arguing for that were completely out of touch with Detroiters. But when I was the prosecutor, when I got elected in 2000, Detroit had the highest rate of civilian shootings of any police department in America. You had one guy, Eugene Brown, who's still famous here, who shot eight different people.”
2024-06-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Mayor Mike Duggan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, Gwen, your influence at Michigan is a pretty liberal place. But like many things, the women I was with were feminists and the literature that I read in order to continue to have a social life lead that way But I just became just a believer in civil rights, in women's rights, and what the Democrats stood for. So my father, who went to all Catholic schools, he went to Xavier undergrad and university of Detroit in law school, when I told him I was going to go to Michigan, he says, you can't go there, you're going to come back an atheist. And when I graduated, he told his friends, it's worse. When you come back an atheist, he came back a Democrat. He came back a Democrat.”
2024-06-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Mayor Mike Duggan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But that was a huge. The Supreme Court indicated that they could use race as a factor. Of course, I went to the University of Michigan. I was influenced enormously by the diversity of students I experienced there. It's something that you can't write down on paper, but it changes your perspective. And my father's opinion was upheld at the time by a 5-4 opinion of the Supreme Court. It's been reversed, but I was very proud of that ruling”
2024-06-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Mayor Mike Duggan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, my father sentenced him the second time. The week he got out, he came by to see me, brought me a couple of autographed baseballs and says, no hard feelings about your dad. But Daddy is one of a kind”
2024-06-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Mayor Mike Duggan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was even worse than that Denny had become a very successful talk show host after his first stint in prison. And I was on his show as the deputy county executive regularly. Denny and I were very good friends. And then he got caught up in his meat packing pension issue. And my father sentenced him.”
2024-06-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Mayor Mike Duggan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, yeah. I just, when I turned 16, at that point, I go down to every game I wanted for a buck. You could sit in the bleachers. I'd take my younger brothers with me and we plopped out there night after night and afternoon afternoon. And those were some really good years.”
2024-06-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Mayor Mike Duggan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I hired Jennifer Granholm right out of law school, gave her her first job working for the county, and she was our chief attorney at one point before she became attorney general. Now we're very proud of the job she's doing as Secretary of Energy. But a lot of young folks, Ed McNamara was an amazing politician. If you've flown in and out of the airport in Detroit, which is considered one of the most efficient in the world, he built that. I mean, literally from empty fields, it was his vision. And it's one of the benefits of being there for 16 years. Is that we built it up and built the runways and the new terminal and the roadways over a period of really several Republican and Democratic administrations in Washington, but he also gave a lot of young people a chance.”
2024-06-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Mayor Mike Duggan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I was his campaign manager. I started out when I was seven years old. My father ran for district judge in Livonia, and I was passing out flyers door to door, and we would get two hamburgers and a milkshake at Bates for four hours of work, which we thought was great compensation. So I started out at early age. My father didn't wit. I learned how to deal with defeat at an early age as well. But as I came along, I had been. County attorney ran at McNamara's campaign for county executive and when he won he made me his deputy county executive which some people questioned I was 28 years old and I had 5,000 people reporting to me but he was willing to put up with the mistakes until I figured out what I was doing and we should point out”
2024-06-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Mayor Mike Duggan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And his time here. But it was a formative experience. But as you talk about the stadiums, the lions moved out of Detroit. That was unthinkable and heartbreaking. Then the pistons moved out to the suburbs. And there was always a feeling among Detroiters for decades nobody cared. Nobody in the state house cared. Nobody in the federal government cared. Nobody in the corporate community cared. They just kept bailing on the city. And it's felt that way for a long time.”
2024-06-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Mayor Mike Duggan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Exactly, exactly. And my mother worked in city government and the social services side of things. But I went to high school in Detroit. I took the bus into Catholic Central High School in Detroit and was in the city when the first African-American mayor, Coleman Young, was elected and watched the reaction of my African-American classmates, which was enormously powerful on what that election meant.”
2024-06-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Mayor Mike Duggan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He got appointed by a Governor Millican Republican governor for 10 years and had to run for reelection, then was appointed to the federal bench by President Reagan, where he served for 30 years. So I grew up in a Republican household. My father always said the worst day of his life was when I came home from college. I told him I was a Democrat. And my mother worked in.”
2024-06-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Mayor Mike Duggan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“When I was a kid, and my father never thought he'd see the day that my kids have come back to the city, that when he moved out in the 60s, he never thought I'd see his grandkids moving back. But that's what's happened.”
2024-06-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Mayor Mike Duggan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Ever since. But my dad, you know, just loved this city, grew up here, and I spent lots and lots of time with my grandma coming downtown. Remember the train station. Detroiters remember a spectacular Hudson's building where you came down for Saunders Fudge. All of the movie theaters this was a magical place and over the years Detroiters have watched everything being taken away from us the auto plants moved out then the movie theaters moved out then your neighbors moved out You moved”
2024-06-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Mayor Mike Duggan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Italy, is that the great grandfather had a blacksmith shop on Michigan Avenue, about a half mile up from the train station in the late 1800s. At the same time, Bill Ford's great-grandfather was in the same neighborhood. We laugh about that. Now, who did better? I don't know. Well, yeah. So his great-grandfather went into cars and mine was shoeing horses. And my great-grandfather ended up working for his great-grandfather at the Model T plant. But we've laughed at the family fortunes have diverged.”
2024-06-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Mayor Mike Duggan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, well, last night it started with Diana Ross and finished with Eminem in Detroit. That's about as big as it gets. But the train station was for my parents' generation and my grandparents' generation. I grew up in Detroit. It was the gateway to Detroit. In the first half of the last century, everybody came here. The freeways weren't a very well built out. Air travel wasn't nearly as prevalent as it was. And so everybody from those generations remembers coming out of the train to this magnificent station and then into what was a beautiful city of Detroit when the train stopped running in the 1980s, it was abandoned. Every single window broken out, covered with graffiti last night one of the folks asked the audience, how many of you been to a rave party in the train station? I mean, this is all kinds of illicit activity to see it restored by Ford Motor Company to the beauty.”
2024-06-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Mayor Mike Duggan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source