Quote Originally Posted by SWMAP View Post
I remember when Matt Cullen went in front of Council in 2002 to gain approvals for GM's Riverfront plans. Someone there asked him if he was a Detroit resident - implying that he was some outsider trying to do good in Detroit [[can't be allowed like Robert Thompson's offer to fund new schools ). Anyway, Cullen said he lived in Grosse Point [[sneers from council).
But GM not be underestimated. Within a month a huge profile of Matt Cullen on front page of Sunday Free Press. Noted that Matt grew up in northwest Detroit, went to school in Detroit, [[think) graduated from UDM, and was SHOT IN THE CHEST in Northwest Detroit while trying to save a girlfriend from a mugging. Just begged the question about who are the real Detroiters! A trouncing of that ridiculous Council. But they never really learn.
Clowncil will never learn, you are right....no matter who they are.

It's any wonder that corporations ever consider coming to Detroit after the attitude of clowncil and some Detroiters. Clowncil emits that feeling of total exclusivitity to those they consider "outsiders".