I can be tough to get into the Detroit Athletic Club.
Outspoken attorney Geoffrey Fieger applied for membership and was rejected.
"It never occurred to me" that he wouldn't be welcome, as he learned Thursday, he tells Laura Berman of The Detroit News.
Fieger was surprised to learn of the elaborate vetting, Berman writes. It includes securing
an official sponsor and six letters of recommendation from members.
"I am a family person," says Fieger, who is married and has young sons. "I have been a Michigan gubernatorial candidate. I am an upstanding citizen."
Berman writes:
After his name was posted online and in the club as one of 26 prospective new resident members, Fieger's DAC friends say, the club's board of directors received several letters opposing his membership. He says he heard "there were at least 20 letters" opposing him.
She writes that two weeks ago Fieger's sponsors, Art Van Elslander, the furniture magnate, told Fieger that he'd been asked by a club official to withdraw Fieger's name.
