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Tom Barrow essentially gives The Detroit News and Free Press editorial boards the finger -- at least when it comes to endorsements.
Tom Barrow slaps "establishment media force-feeding us their preferred candidates in spite of the will of the people."
Barrow, a longshot with virtually no chance of getting either paper's support, has told the papers he won't return a questionnaire to participate in their endorsement process due to "demonstrated bias and advocacy to overturn the rule of law in favor of their own already selected candidate."
In a six-paragraph press release Friday, Barrow says: "As fond as each is in advocating that the people should have choices, we choose to say 'No thank you.' "
When the Michigan Court of Appeals rejected [Mike] Duggan's candidacy, the Free Press's instant editorial offered an insulting description of the legal decision's affect on their chosen hero calling him ". . . [a] victim of a jealous mayoral rival and appellate judges bent on subordinating the rights of voters to a literal and absurd interpretation of the law."
If we are to create a new paradigm in this city, a new way of doing things, then we must embrace a future which includes more voices than an establishment media force-feeding us their preferred candidates in spite of the will of the people.
