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Rev. Horace Sheffield III in Facebook video.
Rev. Horace Sheffield III, the father of Detroit Mayor-elect Mary Sheffield, who was relatively low profile during the mayoral campaign, posted a video on Facebook Monday with an apparent message to the haters of him and his daughter.
"The election is over, my quiet period that I promised probably is over," he said. "I learned an awful lot by being still and being quiet."
"I just want to thank all the haters," he went on to say, "and all the folks who tried to cast aspersions on me and my daughter and who likened us to the Kilpatricks. And you know, said all kinds of unbelievable things, with that same mouth, by the way, they bless God, but yet they curse man."
"Thank you, because I've learned so much from this and I'm patient and I know how to be still now."
Some critics of Council President Mary Sheffield expressed concern during the campaign that her father, Rev. Sheffield, might have undue influence at City Hall if she were elected mayor.
Those concerns may have prompted Rev. Sheffield to embrace a "quiet period" he refers to in the video.
Rev. Sheffield, who is an influential figure in the Detroit community, is the pastor Pastor of New Destiny Christian Fellowship church on Grand River in Detroit.
Critics also compared a possible Sheffield mayorship with the Kilpatricks, in which Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was perceived as giving his father, Bernard Kilpatrick, undue influence in City Hall. Authorities alleged that he created a consulting business, Maestro Associates, to cash in on his son's administration.
Both Kwame Kilpatrick and his father were charged with public corruption. Kwame ended up getting convicted on a host of public corruption charges. His father was acquitted on the corruption charges and convicted on a tax charge.
