He could be the second coming of Obama.
Via WISTV:
As a virtual unknown in the 2016 presidential campaign, Chicago businessman and onetime Windy City mayoral candidate Willie Wilson claimed a valuable, if unappreciated, connection to South Carolina voters.
“Basically, they need to know I’m one of them,” Wilson declared in an interview with WIS News 10. “When I say ‘one of them,’ that means I have been poor. I’ve been through poverty. I’ve been successful, in business, and through life.”
Wilson has barely registered in most presidential polls and failed to make the primaries at all in many states but he did qualify to appear on the ballot for South Carolina’s Democratic primary Feb. 27.
Part of his trouble in getting attention and support he blames on the Democratic Party.
“It hasn’t been that I haven’t tried,” he said. “I am running against the Democratic Party who have not, as they say, sanctioned me.”
A native of Louisiana, Wilson showcases his humble beginnings. In the 1960s, he went from a janitor at McDonalds to the manager of several McDonalds franchises. Today, he is the multimillionaire founder of the Omar Medical Supplies international medical supply company and a nationally syndicated gospel music show.
“We think every citizen, regardless of what color you happen to be or what you want background happen to be, that you can make it,” he said, “if you treat them right. You’re going to come out successful. I’ve proven those types of things and we will continue to do that.”
As part of his platform, Wilson calls for the forgiveness of student debt, a reduction in incarceration of American convicts and cutbacks in American military involvement abroad with savings coming back to pay for domestic priorities.[…]
As a wealthy businessman funding his own campaign, Wilson acknowledges the parallels and comparisons to Republican front runner Donald Trump but says his approach with his own money is very different from Trump’s.
“Well, one thing about Donald Trump is this. And he said it out of his own mouth: when he give to a politician, or anybody, he expect something back. I give unconditional. That’s just what I do. I expect nothing back. Period. I have always been that way. We’ve lost a lot of money, in business before him. But that doesn’t matter because we would take that loss but, on this hand over here, we’ve made a lot. And we’ve been successful all the way through. I don’t give money to churches or politicians and expect anything back.”