The Detroit Free Press Editorial Board is endorsing prosecutor and Macomb County mom Christina Hines as she continues to build momentum to flip Michigan’s 10th Congressional District blue.
The Editorial Board highlights how Christina is “a level-headed former prosecutor who’s laser-focused on rising costs affecting families in the working-class district” and will “ give its residents the diligent service and serious representation they deserve.”
They note that Christina is “deeply steeped in daily life of the district” which is why she prioritizes “kitchen-table issues like the price of groceries, gas and child and elder care, and supports solutions to address the burgeoning housing crisis.”
On the other hand, the Editorial Board notes that Bouchard “appeared to be unfamiliar” with the issue of Social Security solvency and ensuring earned benefits – noting it was “just one of many policy matters Bouchard was unable to address.”
THE BOTTOM LINE: Christina knows what families are going through and she will fight for them. Bouchard Junior doesn’t get it and will just fall in line with his party.
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Detroit Free Press: The Freep’s pick for the 10th U.S. House District | Endorsement
- The kicker line in Capt. Mike Bouchard’s most frequent TV advertisement in his race for U.S. Congress is this: “Socialism? That’s never gonna win on my watch.”
- That sounds just swell, but his opponent for Michigan’s 10th District U.S. House seat is Christina Hines, 36, a level-headed former prosecutor who’s laser-focused on rising costs affecting families in the working-class district.
- Hines, who has lived nearly her entire life in the district, which covers southern Macomb County and Rochester and Rochester Hills in Oakland County, is no socialist. She is a mom and adjunct law professor at Wayne State University who has worked tirelessly to hear and understand her would-be constituents’ concerns.
- The nonpartisan Cook Political Report had rated the district as leaning Republican, but changed its assessment to toss up on Aug. 25, making the 10th District one of few truly competitive House seats in the country.
- But we believe CHRISTINA HINES can flip…this red district blue, and give its residents the diligent service and serious representation they deserve.
- Given Hines’ deep roots in the district, Bouchard’s anti-socialism ad carries a bit of irony: Playing on his very commendable Army service, the ad shows Bouchard doing a parachute jump – not unlike his landing in the 10th District, which is a new place of residence for the son of longtime Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard.
- Voters should make no mistake, though: The Bouchard on the ballot is not the veteran politician, nor is he adequately prepared to serve in Congress.
- Let’s look at one of the most critical issues lawmakers must soon address: If Congress does nothing (what it’s best at), Social Security recipients will face a 20-24% cut in their monthly benefits as soon as 2032.
- So it would seem that a congressional candidate in a working-class district would have a solid plan to address this.
- Hines, for example, advocates eliminating the annual withholding cap for high earners…
- Bouchard?
- During an interview with the Free Press editorial board, he appeared to be unfamiliar with the withholding cap and when asked how he planned to make Social Security solvent, trotted out the Republican canard of eliminating waste, fraud and abuse.
- That’s just one of many policy matters Bouchard was unable to address. He also appeared unfamiliar with Title IX changes that essentially invalidate the legal identity of transgender people and Title X changes that reorient grant funding for clinics serving women away from contraception and toward conception.
- Hines, deeply steeped in daily life of the district, has no such obvious knowledge gaps – nor is she pinning her campaign on hollow bromides like hating socialism and government waste.
- She cares about kitchen-table issues like the price of groceries, gas and child and elder care, and supports solutions to address the burgeoning housing crisis. She says Congress can help her district with “investment into our electric grid, into water and sewage, making it a lot easier for places like Centerline or Roseville or Fraser, small communities like that, to be able to afford those improvements, which means that more people will want to rehab or build housing there.”
- Hines isn’t running for Congress to be something. She wants to do some things. Christina Hines – diligent, dedicated and prepared ‒ is the obvious choice for 10th District voters.
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