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The Bakari Sellers Podcast

Michael Griffie and the Race to Represent Michigan’s 13th District

The Bakari Sellers Podcast

The Ringer

Politics, News

4.8966 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Bakari Sellers is joined by congressional candidate Michael Griffie to discuss the path from principal to running for Michigan’s 13th district (1:10), his plan for constituent services if elected (8:29), and the political outlook of the state’s upcoming gubernatorial race (17:41). Host: Bakari Sellers Guest: Michael Griffie Producer: Donnie Beacham Jr. Executive Producer: Jarrod Loadholt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to another. that it's going to be okay.

0:17.0

Welcome to another episode of the Bicari Sellers podcast. Today I got a good friend of mine, a friend of the show.

0:20.0

Somebody who reaches out and gives us commentary, good, bad, otherwise ugly, telling us sometimes

0:25.5

we got to do better, we need better guess.

0:27.8

But now he can critique his own self, none other than candidate for the United States Congress in the Michigan 13th District.

0:36.0

I think I got that right. Michael Griffith, what's going on my brother? How are you?

0:40.0

Good, but Kari, thank you so much for having me.

0:42.7

You already know how big of a fan of the pot I am.

0:45.6

I do shoot you text from time to time.

0:49.2

You've had Magic, you've had Jaylin on the show,

0:51.9

so you know, just glad to represent the state of Michigan

0:57.2

I think I think I think I think I got honestly Magic and Jayland this is probably a let down from them to but

1:05.2

keep it we'll keep it pushing. Look, you know how we start the show by having each one of our guests walk us through the

1:08.8

arc of their careers and you've been a principal, a lawyer, and now a candidate for Congress.

1:13.3

Walk us through the steps in each one of your career.

1:15.8

And how they led them to, how they led you to this point of choosing

1:19.4

this awesome, awesome challenging task of going up for public service.

1:25.5

Yeah, you know, I started my career in the classroom

1:28.0

as a high school English teacher.

1:29.3

You know, after I came out of Wayne State University,

1:32.0

it was a high school English teacher

1:33.8

in the Pontiac School District,

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