Jack Lessenberry sniffs re-election vulnerability for L. Brooks Patterson, the 73-year-old who has been Oakland's "county executive exactly as long as his ancient enemy, Coleman Alexander Young, was mayor of Detroit."
The columnist sees a chance for Democratic challenger Kevin Hawley, below, a business turnaround specialist who cites the lack of regional transit as an example of a "lack of vision" for Patterson, who continues to recover from serious injuries from an auto accident in August.
It would be hard to imagine, let alone find, someone better qualified.
What he is all about is community-based strategic planning. He knows his stuff: After graduating from Kalamazoo College, he earned an MBA and then a master's in public policy from Harvard. . . .
Politicians are usually invulnerable until they aren't any more.
