UAW official's insider view of GOP's Michigan election scheme

By Mark Gruenberg

There was vote-counting chaos in Michigan thanks to GOP Oval Office occupant Donald Trump, and top Auto Workers official Allen Wilson, assistant to union President Rory Gamble, didn’t like it, or the reason why.

In so many words, which Blacks around the nation, union and non-union, echo, it’s because of race. And Wilson had an insider’s view of Trump’s machinations, as one of the four election commissioners for Wayne County, Mich., which majority-Black Detroit dominates.

Trump tried to overturn the votes from big Democratic-run cities—Detroit, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh—plus Dane County, Wis., which is dominated by progressives working for the state government in the state capital of Madison and students at the long-time progressive stronghold of the University of Wisconsin.