El-Sayed’s platform focuses
on various issues, ranging
from gun reform to affordable
public education and health
care. At the rally, the campaign
highlighted
the
need
for
policy change by including
personal
testimonies
from
Aarica Marsh, a University
alum who graduated in 2016,
and
current
Skyline
high
school senior Aisha Soofi.
Marsh
focused
on
her
experience coming from a
lower income household in
Michigan
public
schooling
and
as
a
first-generation
college
student.
Marsh
explained she and many of
her peers came from unstable
households
and
were
not
provided the resources to
graduate high school. Though
she
wexpressed
gratitude
for
the
opportunities
in
her life, her problems did
not end upon coming to the
University, and her financial
struggles were a constant
difficulty
throughout
her
college
experience.
Marsh
expressed her support for
El-Sayed, having worked on
his campaign for more than a
year.
“I know that Abdul is
incredibly empathetic — he
actually
understands
the
problems that people like
me and my family face,”
Marsh said. “He knows that
standardized tests don’t often
measure the successes of our
schools, but rather where
poor
and
disadvantaged
families are located”
Soofi focused on El-Sayed’s
pro-gun control policy, saying
she, her peers and teachers at
school should not feel they are
in danger of gun violence.
“There is only one candidate
in the state who is saying
enough
is
enough,”
Soofi
said. “Only one candidate
who is standing up against
the NRA, who is standing for
reasonable gun reform, and
who is fighting for an assault
weapons ban.”
As a younger candidate,
a Muslim and a person of
color, El-Sayed said, he is
disadvantaged
in
popular
discourse and often not taken
seriously by other politicians.
He
added,
those
factors
also play into his strengths,
principally
his
ability
to
mobilize
young
people
and
otherwise
overlooked
communities. He asked the
audience to think about
the world they want their
future children to live in,
alluding to the birth of his
first child in November.
“When you have a child,
the set of questions that
you want to ask about the
world changes. Because
the sense of your longevity
extends beyond your life,
and you see in another
human being what it is
that you want to leave in
the world,” El-Sayed said.
“So when you ask yourself
what you’re working for,
I hope that you extend
beyond the arc of what
you can see right now,
and ask yourself: What
will the world have been
because you decided to get
up and in 2018, make the
difference, and make the
future that you wanted to
live?”
LSA
freshman
Celia
Frey works as a volunteer
on the Abdul for Michigan
campaign and expressed
her confidence in his track
record as a public servant
through his work as health
officer. She specifically cited
his partnership with Vision
To Learn, a program which
administers free eye exams
and glasses to elementary
school students in Detroit.
“I’m
volunteering
with
him
because
from
what
I’ve seen out of all the
democratic
candidates
in
the primary, he is really the
most progressive and the one
with the most track record
of actually getting things
done,” she said. “I think that
there are other candidates
that have been less willing
to really have progressive
agendas, and be aggressive
about things like gun laws,
whereas he has really come
out in the extreme. I feel
the most confident in him
actually being able to get
those progressive agendas
accomplished.”
On
the
other
side
of
the
spectrum,
Republican
candidate Bill Schuette has
garnered attention for his
work as Michigan attorney
general on issues such as
anti-bullying
campaigns
and
human
trafficking.
In
a
previous
interview,
University
of
Michigan
lecturer Rusty Hills, director
of public affairs for Schuette,
said he believes Schuette’s
current work as attorney
general
prepares
him
in
fields El-Sayed does not have
experience in.
“I think he’s doing an
outstanding job as attorney
general,
and
the
most
important thing you can do
for future office is a good
job in the office you hold,”
Hills said. “So on a wide
range of issues, I feel like Bill
Schuette’s done a great job as
attorney general. I think that
will help him in this race for
governor.”
The event closed with
an
interactive
musical
performance
by
Alex
Ebert and local Ann Arbor
musicians.
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Every Friday, one Daily news staffer will give a behind the scenes
look at one of this week’s stories. This week, LSA freshman Leah
Graham wrote about the Lecturers’ Employee Organization’s
decision to authorize a strike.
“One of the interesting things about this is LEO’s current contract
has a no-strike clause, and there’s also a state law that prohibits
public employees from striking. And when I asked LEO about this,
I don’t wanna say that they brushed it aside, but it seemed kind of
inconsequential in their grand scheme of things. Ian Robinson, the
president of LEO, he said that three years ago, when they negotiated
the contract that they’re operating on right now, he tried to get it to
end sooner, so that way this strike wouldn’t go against that contract,
but they didn’t get that clause. And he essentially said ‘We’re not
gonna let a few days from the end of this contract stop us from getting
a fair contract for the future. For the most part, he talked about the
teacher strikes in Oklahoma and West Virginia, and he said sometimes
you have to break laws that are unjust to get something that you think
is just. So, for the most part he kind of dismissed the importance of
that law and also the no-strike clause, in terms of getting what he
thinks is a fair contract for members of LEO.”
LSA freshman Leah Graham, “Lecturers authorize strike pending
University salary proposal”
“I know
that Abdul
is incredibly
empatheic —
he actually
understands the
problems.”