'The new Obama': will Abdul El-Sayed be America's first Muslim governor?
- "Inequality and Opportunity in America 'The new Obama': will Abdul El-Sayed be America's first Muslim governor?
- The 32-year-old charismatic Muslim doctor is running for governor of Michigan and in the process trying to change US politics
...If El-Sayed wins, he will be the first Muslim governor in US history.
... El-Sayed’s résumé and progressive bonafides are nearly impeccable.
He is a
Rhodes Scholar, a doctor, formerly a professor at an Ivy League university (where he wrote the textbook for his class) and is the former director for the health department in Detroit, the youngest in any major city.
He’s only 32 years old, and would be the youngest governor since Bill Clinton in 1978.
He will also become a father for the first time in less than three months.
He has pledged to take no corporate Pac money and is unabashedly disdainful of big money influencing elections, calling corporate campaign contributions “bribes”.
He has
pledged universal healthcare to all Michiganders if it fails on the federal level, says he will push to legalize marijuana and says he will raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour and make Michigan a “sanctuary state”: as a spokesman puts it, he is “unwilling to waste state taxpayer money to enforce federal law that would rob small businesses of hardworking employees and tear apart families”.
And
he has a real chance of winning..."
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