Posted on 07/31/2013 8:08:34 AM PDT by kevcol
Things got heated when they started speaking about the emergency manager and whether they could work with him. Candidate Krystal Crittendon came out and said she would not.
"I am going to say something that you will not hear my running mates say. If elected, I will fire Kevyn Orr," Crittendon said.
"How would you fire him when he doesn't report to you without creating chaos in the city?" she was asked.
"If you don't think that there is chaos now, you haven't been paying attention. The emergency manager right now cannot do anything in city government if the employees who are appointed by the mayor and respond to the mayor do not allow him to do it," Crittendon responded.
"The law is the law, and we are obliged to follow the law. How are you going to fire somebody and you don't have the authority?
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There were a lot of jabs from Tom Barrow, who called himself Mayor Bing 2.0.
"Conservatives want the city's jewels and to bust our unions, privatize city functions and steal our pensions. Resolute I have been strong against them. Before you are the faces of those conservatives masquerading here as objective panelists," he said at one point.
(Excerpt) Read more at myfoxdetroit.com ...
People are buying cheap property in Detroit thinking once the bankruptcy is over things will improve. But the biggest thing wrong with Detroit are the people who live there, and they aren’t going anywhere.
“Resolute I have been strong against them.”
I didn’t realize that Yoda was running this time around.
think that is bad...
the president of the school board could not read or write..he was functionally illiterate..
read this article again with that thought in your mind..
Yea, remember when he used to fill in on WXYT? Coherent is a good term and he was.
We had a blowhard like that get elected here as County Executive. Thought he could stop a court ordered reassessment by ordering his employees, including the head of the Real Estate bureau, not to cooperate with it.
A brief head-smacking by a judge and a court order seizing direct supervision of that bureau by the court set his mind right.
Father of 24 found dead inside Detroit building
http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/video?clipId=9144231&autoStart=true
the city jewels are dead.
Nice talons, Krystal.
Hey, hey! Don’t profile!
What jewels?
What pensions? There is no money left. You gave away their pensions to the unions and other graft
The problem is too many tax cuts for the consumers of city resources.
If people were charged a tax proportional to the burden they put on the city, the dead weight would have been evicted long ago.
Instead the city taxed the producers and gave a free ride to the consumers and government employees.
Well we used to have special administrative regions -- they were called states.
Now statehood means nothing.
Detroit could have survived had the citizens believed they still had control of their city and the state that gave them that power.
But the loss of state's rights, and the de facto takeover of cities and towns by the Federal government during the 60s meant the unruly parts of Detroit could no longer be contained. The city of Detroit was legislatively stolen from the people of Detroit and handed over to the worst elements.
They would if all welfare benefits were turned off within the borders of Detroit, and you had to leave Detroit to get any.
Reminds me of the DC mayoral race. A bunch of machine democrats sitting around telling everyone about how they offer “change” and how they will clean-up the city government. Then they all brag about how they’re going to spend the speed camera money, which is probably the biggest single contributor to the city coffers.
http://www.city-data.com/city/Detroit-Michigan.html
Detroit by the numbers.... It’s amazing the turn around this city has taken...
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