President Barack Obama landed in Michigan shortly after noon today and prepared for a day of celebrating the resurgence of Detroit and the domestic auto industry.
It was 18 degrees and snowing at Detroit Metro Airport when Air Force One touched down. On hand to greet the president were Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan; U.S. Rep. John Conyers, a Democrat from Detroit; and Wayne County Executive Warren Evans. Traveling with Obama from Washington, D.C., were U.S. Reps. Debbie Dingell, a Democrat from Dearborn, and Brenda Lawrence, a Democrat from Southfield.
The president is expected to tour the North American International Auto Show for the first time and give remarks at the UAW GM Center for Human Resources about the auto industry’s successes since General Motors and what is now Fiat Chrysler Automobiles emerged from a federal bailout and structured bankruptcy in 2009.
Obama and Duggan made an unscheduled stop at the Jolly Pumpkin brewery and restaurant in Detroit's Midtown area. They dined with Tom Kartsotis, the founder of the Shinola watch company, which is next to the restaurant on Canfield, Tolulope Sonuyi, a physician engaged with Detroit youths in violence prevention and intervention programs tied to the My Brother’s Keeper initiative, and Teana Dowdell, an autoworker at GM's Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly plant.
- While Obama isn’t traveling to Flint to examine the city’s water crisis first-hand, his deputy press secretary, Eric Schultz, told reporters on Air Force One: "The president … met with the mayor yesterday, and he wants to make sure we are marshaling all the resources of the federal government."
When asked whether Snyder should resign, Schultz said: "Our view is right now (is that) everybody should be focused on the actual problem.”
http://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2016/01/20/president-obama-detroit-auto-show/79063668/
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