Clinton hits Detroit for some sweet-potato politicking
Source: Detroit Free Press
By Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press 9:35 a.m. EDT July 22, 2015
(Photo: Regina H. Boone, Detroit Free Press)
Hillary Clinton, in town Tuesday for a fund-raiser as she seeks the Democratic nomination in the 2016 presidential race, decided to make a brief campaign stop at a Detroit eatery to highlight her support for small businesses – and to taste some of the restaurant's signature sweet potato cobbler.
This was Clinton's first trip to Michigan since she officially announced her presidential ambitions. She was last in Michigan in October, appearing at Oakland University for a campaign rally for Gary Peters, who won his race for U.S. Senate, and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mark Schauer.....
"I want to be the small-business president," Clinton told reporters during her previously unannounced visit to Sweet Potato Sensations near Grand River and Lahser in the Old Redford neighborhood on Detroit's west side. "I'm making a real point of identifying and visiting small businesses that are successful — sometimes against the odds — but are providing a service or product that people in their communities are buying up, and giving a good base for growth. And that's what we need to do more of."
Her comments hit on a theme she has highlighted repeatedly on the campaign trail.
Candidates in both parties have latched on to the idea of supporting small businesses, especially in the context of creating jobs, as the presidential campaign shapes up. Many middle-class workers turned to starting their own businesses after losing corporate and factory positions during the recession.......
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no sweet potatoes for me==although most in my large family love em!
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About 3 mos we will have sweet meat squash from the garden, kinda the Northern equivalent of pumpkin.
I may now add a cobbler this year.
