Meet the candidates for the Dearborn Heights mayoral race
The two candidates on the ballot for the Dearborn Heights mayoral race are former city council president and current acting mayor Mo Baydoun and city councilwoman Denise Malinowski-Maxwell.
The city is electing a new mayor after former Mayor Bill resigned and was confirmed earlier this month as U.S. ambassador to Tunisia.
Malinowski-Maxwell served as city council chair and interim mayor in 2020 and 2021. She said her career experience taught her to deescalate situations, delegate tasks, and work effectively with a team to solve problems.
Malinowski-Maxwell said her main priorities include properly staffing the city departments, particularly the police department, and fostering public safety. She said that includes preventing accidents on the road, and providing disaster relief and support to people whose basements have flooded in parts of the city that are vulnerable when Ecorse Creek overflows its banks.
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