Michigan GOP releases ad bashing Detroit.

**ejames01** · October-09-12, 08:10 PM

These people are too idiotic to understand that doing this makes them look bad too.

**antongast** · October-09-12, 08:20 PM

You know your party has gone totally off the rails when L. Brooks freaking Patterson is your voice of moderation.

**brizee** · October-09-12, 09:12 PM

Wait a second.

Hold the phone.

Do not pass go.

I just read some of the comments in the news about the idiot behind this ad.

PLEASE somebody confirm this cocksucker owns delapidated property in the city!!!

Pretty please.

It'd be Christmas, my birthday, and cherry popping day all wrapped up at once!

**DetroiterOnTheWestCoast** · October-09-12, 11:00 PM

Originally Posted by brizee

Wait a second.

Hold the phone.

Do not pass go.

I just read some of the comments in the news about the idiot behind this ad.

PLEASE somebody confirm this cocksucker owns delapidated property in the city!!!

Pretty please.

It'd be Christmas, my birthday, and cherry popping day all wrapped up at once!

Don't give us cocksuckers a bad name by associating us with him.

**Bham1982** · October-10-12, 07:37 AM

Originally Posted by brizee

Wait a second.

Hold the phone.

Do not pass go.

I just read some of the comments in the news about the idiot behind this ad.

PLEASE somebody confirm this cocksucker owns delapidated property in the city!!!

Pretty please.

It'd be Christmas, my birthday, and cherry popping day all wrapped up at once!

Are you referring to Schostak? I know him personally, and I seriously doubt he owns dilapidated properties in the city [[or in any city, for that matter). Their investment focus generally doesn't really fit with urban anything.

And, while I wouldn't run the ad, because it's divisive, it's also 100% true.

**iheartthed** · October-10-12, 09:41 AM

Originally Posted by Bham1982

And, while I wouldn't run the ad, because it's divisive, it's also 100% true.

Is it?

The Packard Plant, which was shown in the ad as an example of Democrats mismanaging Detroit, closed in 1957. Detroit had two Republican mayors in 1957, Albert Cobo, who died in office, and Louis Miriani who replaced him and remained in office for 4 and a half years.

**Melocoton** · October-10-12, 10:24 AM

Originally Posted by Bham1982

And, while I wouldn't run the ad, because it's divisive, it's also 100% true.

It's amazing that anyone can seriously believe that Detroit spends "outrageously." Every service has been cut for years--our parks department budget is probably less than many suburban county towns with a fraction of the population. Firehouses are understaffed when they're not closed completely. If you really think Detroit is "overspending" you are totally delusional.

**detmsp** · October-10-12, 05:09 PM

Originally Posted by Melocoton

It's amazing that anyone can seriously believe that Detroit spends "outrageously." Every service has been cut for years--our parks department budget is probably less than many suburban county towns with a fraction of the population. Firehouses are understaffed when they're not closed completely. If you really think Detroit is "overspending" you are totally delusional.

Really? You wonder where anyone would get the idea that Detroit overspends?

http://www.policemag.com/videos/chan...olice-car.aspx

http://www.freep.com/article/2012080...epartment-rate

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/2...ETRO/104220381

**Melocoton** · October-11-12, 09:21 AM

Originally Posted by detmsp

Really? You wonder where anyone would get the idea that Detroit overspends?

http://www.policemag.com/videos/chan...olice-car.aspx

http://www.freep.com/article/2012080...epartment-rate

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/2...ETRO/104220381

Throwing up three links doesn't prove anything, of course. The links above are all about

1) layoffs in a Detroit municipal agency, which strikes me as an example of budget cutting, not "overspending";

2) renovations of one Detroit agency, the library, which some people criticized [[wrongly, in my view) precisely because it came at a time when the library system's budget was being slashed overall; and

3) some cherry-picked example of one expensive car in the Detroit Police Department, which by itself does not contradict the fact that the DPD is underfunded and understaffed.

**Bham1982** · October-11-12, 09:33 AM

Originally Posted by Melocoton

If you really think Detroit is "overspending" you are totally delusional.

Well then call me totally delusional, because there is waste all over the place in Detroit.

City managers have luxury cars for their free personal use, there are entire departments of limited utility, and there's no shortage of tax dollars spent on questionable "economic development".

Yes, the city overall has little money, and many day-to-day functions are starved to the bone, but there is a ton of waste in pretty broad sectors of city government.

This is in contrast to Oakland County, which, despite its wealth and prosperity, has cut personnel costs much faster than either Detroit or Wayne County. Both Detroit and [[especially) Wayne have a ridiculous amount of questionable spending.

I only wish my city government were as well run as the county government.

**Danny** · October-11-12, 11:06 AM

I will never vote Republican ever again!

**DetBill** · October-15-12, 10:36 AM

I m quite sure in the Republican fashion of recent that after the the election is done they will come out with some sort of statement saying the ad was misunderstood and not meant to cause any malicious damage to Detroit or the region. It seems to be their motus operandi for everything lately. but the damage , very intentionally, will already have been done. This had been the strategy for long time now. Yes, if they cared about the city and region they would not air an ad like that, but, their interests at the present time have nothing to do with that. Your best way to combat against this behavior is to vote against them in November. If a Republican president is elected, this area should expect little or no support. Romney has no loyalty to Detroit or its areas.