Hopes of ousting Warren Mayor Fouts may hinge on one man
Hopes of ousting Warren Mayor Jim Fouts in the November election may hinge on one man — former state lawmaker Steve Bieda.
As the Tuesday deadline nears for mayoral hopefuls to file for candidacy, opponents of Fouts are encouraging Bieda, a popular Democrat, to run.
No formidable candidates have filed as of Friday afternoon.
In the past two elections, Fouts won with more than 80 percent of the vote — the largest margins of victory in the city’s history.
But since his last election victory in 2015, Fouts has been plagued with scandals and allegations of cronyism and racism. In a series of damaging recordings released to the media since 2017, Fouts has compared black people to “chimps,” called older women “dried-up c**ts,” used a gay slur, and mocked people with disabilities and women who have been abused.
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