ms. tlaib, it s katty here. there is only one other muslim. it s not that easy for muslim americans to get elected in congress or perhaps they haven t run in numbers. i want to know how much of an issue it was for you campaigning in the 13th district. if it comes up, how do you respond to? first of all, there are two. congressman keith ellison, by the way, take full credit for the fact he is a detroiter himself. was born here and raised here. and there is also congressman andre carson who i dearly respect and love and adore the number of things he s been able to work on. look, i ve run before three times very successfully for the state legislature. of course, it comes up, but people tend to put that aside
there is only one other muslim. it s not that easy for muslim americans to get elected in congress or perhaps they haven t run in numbers. i want to know how much of an issue it was for you campaigning in the 13th district. if it comes up, how do you respond to? first of all, there are two. congressman keith ellison, by the way, take full credit for the fact he is a detroiter himself. was born here and raised here. and there is also congressman andre carson who i dearly respect and love and adore the number of things he s been able to work on. look, i ve run before three times very successfully for the state legislature. of course, it comes up, but people tend to put that aside and look at my record, look at the fact that i m a hard worker, and the fact that i really do care about making their lives better. and people want to just have that direct human contact. and you know, right away, people like, oh, yeah, you re the one who helped get the petroleum coke removed from the river fr
and bronze in one event. i can t remember what it was. it was probably what? i ll stop talking about it. can i talk about something else? go ahead. tomorrow is the big match with the russians against in hockey. okay? how many of you were around, old enough to remember the famous hockey game in 1980? you believe in miracles. do you believe in miracles? that was amazing. al michaels. made history. you were not old enough. what was historic is we had all amateurs, college and amateurs playing against the russians, who were the professionals. and who was the team we beat to get there? the poles or the czechs? i don t remember. when he said, do you believe in miracles, it wasn t against the russians, it was somebody else, and then we won. do you remember mark thesen, the columnist in the detroiter. at the white house, you get a group together to talk about who should get the medal of freedom, and every time we had one of
and bronze in one event. i can t remember what it was. it was probably what? i ll stop talking about it. can i talk about something else? go ahead. tomorrow is the big match with the russians against in hockey. okay? how many of you were around, old enough to remember the famous hockey game in 1980? you believe in miracles. do you believe in miracles? that was amazing. al michaels. made history. you were not old enough. what was historic is we had all amateurs, college and amateurs playing against the russians, who were the professionals. and who was the team we beat to get there? the poles or the czechs? i don t remember. when he said, do you believe in miracles, it wasn t against the russians, it was somebody else, and then we won. do you remember mark thesen, the columnist in the detroiter. at the white house, you get a group together to talk about who should get the medal of freedom, and every time we had one of
official, that is to say, not elected by the people so the rejection and repudiation of democracy on the one hand is aparents. let me tell you what, dr. anthony, i was having a conversation with a well-known detroiter, happens to be black. he told me look, this is the product of mismanagement over a city that we had extraordinary political power in, and as a result of that, we can t now cry foul. how do you respond to that? i m so glad that you raised that, dr. dyson. was a study done that went back 50 years, looked at coleman year, van edward, dennis archer, all mayors preceded this time period. what they found through the detroit free press and others, that coleman young, the first african-american mayor in the city of detroit, had the best record of fiscal responsibility of any of the mayors that preceded him. one cannot look at detroit in isolation and say somehow the