[dirtymac]

he is a Republican and is mayor of Warren, MI

and an idiot

[Robert DeLong]

Fouts has a controversial history with the Democratic Party. He ran for state representative in the 1970s as a Republican, but in Warren, the city offices are nonpartisan. Fouts, however, has attended many Democratic events over the years, but endorsed U.S. Sen. John McCain, an Arizona Republican, for president in 2008 before switching his allegiance to then-Sen. Barack Obama.

In this year's election cycle, he was an enthusiastic supporter of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, but later complained about how the party treated him at a Democratic debate in Flint in February and that he didn't get to introduce Clinton when she gave a speech in Warren in August.

Wikipedia lists him as an Independent.