Some of the candidates in Detroit s highly competitive City Council race. Nearly half of Detroit City Council s members are not running for reelection, including President Brenda Jones, André Spivey, Raquel Castañeda-López, and Gabe Leland, who resigned after pleading guilty of accepting a cash bribe, creating a competitive race with more than 40 candidates. Candidates who did not respond to
Metro Times questionnaire include at-large candidate Nicole Small; District 1 incumbent James Tate and Darryl Brown, District 4 s Latisha Johnson, Daivon Reeder, and Virgil Smith; and District 7 s William Davis, Regina Ross, and JoAnna Underwood. Here are the ones who took the time to tell us all of us what they hope to accomplish on the City Council.