The Metro: This Madison Heights mayoral candidate leads with care, collaboration and community

By: Sam Corey

16 October 2025 at 17:51

While much of the media’s attention on November’s elections has been on Detroit’s mayoral race, there are many other political contests happening outside the city.

One of them is in Madison Heights. That’s where a one-term city council member is running for mayor against the current Eastpointe police chief.

If elected, the council member would be the city’s first Black mayor. But what’s also interesting about this race is that he — not the police chief — won the endorsement of the Michigan Fraternal Order of Police.

How did City Councilor Quinn Wright do it? And, why does he want to be mayor?

Last week, Producer Sam Corey spoke with Wright about that and more.

The Metro reached out multiple times to Wright’s opponent, Chief Corey Haines. We still have not heard back from him.

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