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Originally Posted by dfane
Doesnt Detroit's mayor look like a pimp? lol
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No, he does not.
And what do you mean run everything into the ground?
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Originally Posted by dfane
i Guess this what you get when you keep voting crooks into office and they run the city like a city in Rwanda and run everything into the ground.
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No, this is not what you get when you vote crooks into office. What you get when you vote crooks into office is what happened in the case with former City Councilman, Alonzo Bates. He is in Federal Court charged with employing "ghost employees", namely his former girlfriend and her daughter.
Hear me out: The girlfriend worked full time at a hospital. The daughter attended New York University full time. In other words, SHE LIVED IN NEW YORK. Both were paid middle-income wages to do absolutely nothing for Bates...all at the taxpayers' expense.
I find it offensive that people think Detroiters are going to just vote in crooks, simply because they don't care. You've been listening to people, haven't you?
Another case occurred when former City Clerk Jackie Curry screwed up the voting system so much, that dead people were casting their votes all over the city. Detroiters were just as furious as in the Lonnie Bates scandal, that Jackie Curry's opponent, Janet Winfrey won by a landslide. Curry just bitched and moaned that she did nothing wrong, even though the clerks office was falling apart.
So, to answer your question, no the mayor is not a pimp and no, residents don't vote in crooks. The mayoral race is not just confined to the city. It is in terms of who can vote, but people here are smart enough that the election of the mayor of the city of Detroit is a decision that affects the entire region...all 5 million of us.
Detroit's history goes back farther than the 1980s, when it was possibly at its worst. It takes more than just a mayor for the city to be the way it is today. To think otherwise is just simple minded and lazy.