Lewis Brooks Patterson says he will retire on Dec. 31, 2020. He will take his belongings, his 40l[[k) and wheel himself home to his suburban condominium where he will watch his grandchildren play from his deck.

"Seven terms as the Oakland County Executive is enough," he told me the other evening at a restaurant on the northern edge of the county, fresh from a political chicken dinner where he received a standing ovation. "I don't want to be carried out on my shield wearing a dirty diaper. There's nothing glorious about that."

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