Telegram - Serving Metropolitan Detroit Since 1944

I get about three emails a day from candidates running for office from all across the nation for national, state and local offices with requests for donations. I get these requests relentlessly.

I never get an accounting, nor how the issues relate to me locally, or anyone I know, or how to hold a discussion about the issues at any level of government.

Nor do I ever hear about your underwriting overtures or read about relevant local issues in the black media I read and write for on a regular basis.

So I thought I'd send you an open letter about spending some of your time and money communi...