The Facebook post begins starkly in capital letters: "DOOR KICKED IN."
Former Detroit mayoral candidate Lisa Howze shared that status update on her page early Wednesday after police investigated her alarmed 911 call about that incident while she was home. "The only thing taken was $53 that I had on my desk," she posted.
Howze wasn't confronted by an intruder or harmed, she says.
Her initial social media mention of the incident came In a tweet around 10 p.m. Tuesday, when Howze said: "5 men kicked in my backdoor while I was home. Thank God for good neighbors." This follow-up tweet an hour later responded to friends' concern:
"Yes, I am ok. My neighbors were able to scare them off. More police are here. Gotta go."
"The first thing that came to my mind." was a possible political link to the break-in, Lisa Howze says.
No suspects are in custody and police say the incident remains under investigation, according to Fox 2.
In her post-midnight Facebook post, Howze raised the possibility that the incident may have something to do with her backing of Mike Duggan earlier Tuesday in the mayoral runoff against Benny Napoleon:
"While everyone on Facebook has been frantic all day Tuesday about my endorsement of Mike Duggan for Mayor, 5 men kicked in my back door while I was home. . . . Do you think this was a coincidence?"
Fox 2 later asked about that speculation and Hozwe replied: "I don't know, but I'll tell you when I first crawled under that bed that was the first thing that came to my mind. But you just never know."
Howze, a 40-year-old accountant and former state representative, got 6.6 percent of the primary vote Aug. 6 as the fourth-place finisher.
She tells blogger Steve Neavling that she met twice with Duggan and backs him because "he liked my ideas, and he’s supporting them. He has a good vision for Detroit.”
Responding to social media criticism of that move, she tells the Motor City Muckraker writer:
“If I went with the vocal minority, then we will never have a higher conversation about what’s next for Detroit. I know who I am, and they can call me all of the names they want.
"It’s easier for some people to believe that I was paid off, rather than base my endorsement on the merits of the candidates and their visions for Detroit.”
