Patterson has ‘career-ending’ cancer, won’t run in 2020

Longtime Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson announced Tuesday that he has “career-ending” stage 4 pancreatic cancer and will not be seeking an eighth term. Patterson, 80, has been in poor health since a 2012 automobile accident in which he was seriously injured. He said he intends to serve out the remainder of his seventh … Continue reading Patterson has ‘career-ending’ cancer, won’t run in 2020