Glenn Plummer, Democratic Candidate for Change, Files 2,000 Petition Signatures in Race for U.S. Congress

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May 11, 2010, 06:31 ET

Businessman is Alternative to Career Politicians in Michigan's 13th District

DETROIT, May 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a tangible demonstration of the dissatisfaction 13th Congressional District voters have with career politicians and politics as usual, Democratic U.S. Congressional candidate Glenn Plummer today filed 2,000 petition signatures with the Wayne County Clerk, making his bold campaign official.

Two-thousand petition signatures are the maximum allowed under Michigan election rules, with 1,000 valid voter signatures required.

Plummer, 55, a television broadcasting entrepreneur and Detroit-area pastor, is challenging incumbent Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick in the Democratic primary.

"As I have met with 13th Congressional District residents in Town Hall meetings, neighborhood visits and door-to-door campaigning, their frustration over our lack of jobs and Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick's lack of vision has been overwhelming," Plummer said.

"On the other hand, people are excited about our seven-point Plummer Plan for economic growth," he said. "They've been telling me this is the only sound, realistic plan for making Detroit economically great again. Neither Kilpatrick nor State Senator Hansen Clarke has communicated any plan at all. Both of them are career politicians who apparently expect 13th District voters to accept more of the same empty results."

Plummer vowed to engage in a vigorous campaign of hope and optimism, and promised to contrast his Plummer Plan for economic growth with the weak records of his opponents on job creation.

A Denno-Noor poll released late in 2009 showed that only 27 percent of 13th District voters would re-elect Kilpatrick, and 58 percent would vote for someone else instead of her.

"I doubt that those numbers have changed very much," Plummer said.

Plummer is chairman and CEO of the Detroit-based Christian Television Network – which he founded in 1982 -- and owner of its flagship station, WLPC-TV (Channel 26) in Detroit. Plummer is also founder and senior pastor of Ambassadors for Christ Church in Redford Township, Mich. He served as chairman and CEO of the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) from 2001 to 2005, and since 2005 has engaged in international relations as president of the Fellowship of Israel and Black America (FIBA). FIBA encourages the strengthening of traditionally close ties between African Americans and American Jews, and seeks improved dialogue between Black America and the state of Israel.

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