Quote Originally Posted by 313WX View Post
I'm going to assume if you're not one of the council members, you work [[paid) directly under one of them.

Because you sure are going to great lengths to defend them.
Not to say that Detroit has had the best or most effective representation for the last "X" number of years...but is that the issue?
Detroit is not broke because Charles Pugh, Kwame Kenyatta or JoAnn Watson is an assclown, rather because the city has been hemorrhaging people and revenue for 50 years. Kwame awarding contracts to Bobby Ferguson to tear down houses doesn't mean the money wouldn't have been spent had Adamo Construction been awarded the work instead.

Seems like everyone just wants to point fingers at officials that they don't like or don't feel are competant as if that person is at the heart of Detroit's problem. News Flash! It doesn't matter who was elected as mayor or city council. It wouldn't have resulted in a surge of working, educated, tax paying residents leaving the suburbs to return to the city. Detroit would still be looking at filing bankruptcy.