{"id":7507,"date":"2025-11-06T15:08:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T19:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/?p=7507"},"modified":"2025-11-06T15:08:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T19:08:22","slug":"mary-sheffield-the-current-city-council-president-will-replace-outgoing-mayor-mike-duggan-she-will-be-the-citys-first-female-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/mary-sheffield-the-current-city-council-president-will-replace-outgoing-mayor-mike-duggan-she-will-be-the-citys-first-female-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Sheffield, the current city council president, will replace outgoing Mayor Mike Duggan. She will be the city&#8217;s first female mayor.\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time Sheffield has made history in the city. When she was elected to lead the city council, she was Detroit&#8217;s youngest city council president ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She defeated Rev. Solomon Kinloch Jr., who is the pastor of Triumph Church. Sheffield received 77% of the votes, while Kinloch received 22%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sheffield was considered a front-runner from the beginning. In the August primary, she received about 50% of the votes, advancing her to Tuesday&#8217;s face-off.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said she wants to make sure neighborhoods in her city are not neglected. She also wants to tackle poverty and crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;To every Detroiter that is watching tonight, whether you voted for me or not, I am here to listen to you, to fight for you, and to serve you,&#8221; Sheffield said during her victory speech. &#8220;At the end of the day, we all want the same thing &#8211; a Detroit that works for everyone.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sheffield said she will begin working on a transition team as she prepares for Duggan to leave office. That will include coming up with a list of priorities for her first 100 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other side:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kinloch said that despite the loss, he continues to look forward to the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to still yell it from the rooftop, that you cannot make all of the investments downtown. It has to reach the whole town of Detroit,&#8221; he said Tuesday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said he entered the race over several concerns, including homelessness and crime.<\/p>\n<div class='clear '><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This isn&#8217;t the first time Sheffield has made history in the city. When she was elected to lead the city council, she was Detroit&#8217;s youngest city council president ever. She defeated Rev. Solomon Kinloch Jr., who is the pastor of Triumph Church. Sheffield received 77% of the votes, while Kinloch received 22%. Sheffield was considered [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7509,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7507\/revisions\/7509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}