A candidate for city council in Michigan has dropped out of the race after she made comments about wanting to keep her community as white “as possible.”
Jean Cramer, 67, ended her run for Marysville City Council on Monday, putting her withdrawal in writing at the request of city officials, the Times Herald in Port Huron reported. Her one-sentence letter did not include a reason for her withdrawal.
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Her name will remain on the Nov. 5 ballot, however, because the deadline to be removed from the ballot was April 26.
Last week, in response to a question abut whether the city should be more aggressive in attracting foreign-born citizens, Cramer said she wanted to “keep Marysville a white community as much as possible.”
Other candidates pushed back on her comment, with Kathy Hayman, the city’s mayor pro tempore, saying she took personal offense to the remark because her son-in-law is black and she has biracial grandchildren.
Cramer later called interracial marriage “wrong,” but insisted she was not racist.
“What Kathy Hayman doesn’t know is that her family is in the wrong,” she said. “[A] husband and wife need to be the same race. Same thing with kids. That’s how it’s been from the beginning of, how can I say, when God created the heaven and the earth. He created Adam and Eve at the same time. But as far as me being against blacks, no I’m not.”
