Politics

Oakland Burgermeister L. Brooks Patterson Compares a Republican Leader To The Fuhrer

May 03, 2013, 11:15 AM

Increasingly angry that members of his own party are acting like Republicans over the no-fault insurance reform debate, Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson called Speaker of the House Jase Bolger “Adolf Bolger” on the public TV show "Off the Record."

Kathleen Gray reports that Patterson, who was seriously injured in an auto accident last summer and opposes changing the law, then pulled a comb from his pocket and put it over his lip like the Nazi leader’s mustache.

“Adolf Bolger, he’s throwing his weight around … and embarrassing himself,” Patterson said.


Read more:  Detroit Free Press


Leave a Comment: