Detroit’s Mayor Young to Run for Fifth Term
Mayor Coleman A. Young, the outspoken leader of the nation’s sixth-largest city for more than 15 years, said Tuesday that he will run for a fifth term.
“Ain’t nobody going to run me out,” Young, 71, told the crowd at a downtown community center.
In the nonpartisan mayoral primary Sept. 12, voters will select two candidates for a runoff Nov. 7. Young’s announced opponents include City Council President Erma Henderson, unsuccessful 1985 mayoral candidate Thomas Barrow and businessman Charles Costa.
During his tenure as mayor, Young succeeded in integrating the police and fire departments and landed hundreds of millions of dollars in federal and state economic development grants.
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