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Ex-Detroit Lions safety Don Carey picks 'craziest time' to run for political office

Crews at TCF Center in Detroit and the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers transform the convention center into a 1,000-bed hospital for coronavirus patients. Wochit

Don Carey was supposed to be at the Chesapeake, Virginia, home of one of his friends Thursday, mingling with a few dozen millennials, listening to their vision of the city’s future and brainstorming ways he could help make it come true.

He had another meet-and-greet planned for the next night, a fundraiser in one of Chesapeake’s up-and-coming neighborhoods that the former Detroit Lions safety hoped would help finance his bid for one of three open seats on the city council.