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SHERIFF PICKELL MEETS WITH SENATOR BARACK OBAMA

 

June 16, 2008

 Sheriff Robert J. Pickell, along with Genesee

County Prosecutor David Leyton, met with

U.S. Senator Barack Obama today during

Senator Obama’s presidential campaign

visit to Kettering University in Flint . 

 

“Senator Obama was very gracious with his

busy schedule to take time to talk with us

about the issues of crime facing the residents

of Flint and all Americans,” said Prosecutor

David Leyton after the meeting.

 

Sheriff Pickell and Prosecutor Leyton said that they expressed their views to Senator Obama that dysfunctional families and absent fathers contribute a great deal to the crime problems we face today as a society.  Lack of a stable home environment where both parents share in the responsibility of raising their kids has had a dramatic negative effect on crime, especially in the inner-cities of America.


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