The chairman of Crain's Communications has a brisk, blunt message for Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson: "Keep quiet and go home."
Without calling them out by name, he uses his column at Crain's Detroit Business to poke at "publicity-hungry carpetbaggers" who roll into town to criticize the state-led emergency financial management.
Keith CrainWe have some folks from out of town -- you know who they are -- who have come in to protest some of those changes.
Let's ask them to leave. If people who live and/or work here want to yell and scream about the changes, OK. They have a right to do so. But let's leave the publicity-hungry carpetbaggers out of it. . . .
It is time for us to shout down the naysayers, particularly the out-of-town carpetbaggers who have no skin in the game. If you've got skin in the game, you can yell as loud as you want. That's your right. Otherwise, keep quiet and go home.
