Democratic Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed has falsely and repeatedly claimed he removed lead from Detroit's elementary schools during his brief tenure as director of the troubled city's health department. At most, he implemented inadequate testing followed by modest, often failed, mitigation efforts to keep children from ingesting harmful lead and copper, according to legal filings and city records, including documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon via Freedom of Information Act requests.
When El-Sayed left the Detroit job to run for governor in February 2017, the school district announced that lead levels in school water were under control, and El-Sayed's campaign website states that he "removed lead from Detroit's elementary schools." But according to public documents, tests conducted in March 2017 revealed elevated levels of lead in at least nine schools that had tested positive during El-Sayed's tenure and had undergone mitigation that he oversaw.
The following year, the school system rolled out an extensive testing campaign—a significantly more comprehensive effort than was conducted on El-Sayed's watch—that quickly revealed an elevated metal contamination rate in scores of schools. As a result, in August 2018, the water was turned off in all Detroit public schools.
El-Sayed's provably false claims about lead removal add to a...
The far-left Senate hopeful suggests he fixed a massive safety hazard in Detroit's schools. At best, his efforts were ineffective. Democratic Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed has falsely and repeatedl...