A NABO investigation reveals that three Detroit candidates for the state legislature are usurping McFadden & Whitehead songs without permission. The husband and wife team of Chester and Ellen Logan that seek the offices of state representative and state senator respectively are misappropriating the song Ain't No Stopping Us Now in their political ads. Bertha Coleman Poe, the former Secretary Treasurer of the Michigan State AFL-CIO that is running for state representative, is wrongfully using the song Wake Up Everybody.

Reverend Sheffield said that when those that would be lawmakers are themselves breaking the law as they seek public office mistrust of politicians is the result. "How can we trust people to make and uphold the law when the law and ethical standards of decency are trampled upon in the pursuit of an election? Too many of our musicians have died broke or lived in poverty because the unscrupulous stole their intellectual property. The stealing will end in Detroit, the birthplace of Motown," said Sheffield.