Trick question: What's the difference between Detroit's mayoral campaign and a suburban school board race?
Not much, in Nolan Finley's view.
"You can go days without hearing or reading anything significant about the campaign, and then it’s usually the announcement of an endorsement," writes The Detroit News editorial page editor.
Benny Napoleon "doesn’t seem to know how to relight the fire," Nolan Finley writes.
The veteran newsman, like anyone covering politics, would prefer the drama of what Finley says "was supposed to be a rock ’em, sock ’em mayoral campaign."
I get almost daily updates from the Duggan camp, but hardly ever see anything from Napoleon.
The Wayne County sheriff hasn’t exhibited the passion I’d expect from someone who’s worked his way up the political ladder and now has a shot at becoming mayor of his hometown.
The snoozefest has Finley so befuddled that his column mixes metaphors in wondering about Napoleon :
Perhaps the thumping he took in the primary . . . took the starch out of him. . . . He doesn’t seem to know how to relight the fire beneath his campaign.
While noting that "there’s still time for this race to explode" before Nov. 5, Finley appears ready to draft a headline for the Election Day result:
Mike Duggan seems ready to walk into City Hall as the first white mayor in 40 years.
