Explain the Mike Duggan write in campaign for me.....please.

[Danny]

Detroiters, here's how your write Mike Duggan in for mayor:

1. Write his full name MIKE DUGGAN

2. Depending on your voting system circle the oval, put a line between the arrowsor put a check in the box.

It's simple. Then your vote will count.

[antongast]

But it's keeping the hospital from closing down, and that's the most important thing.

...for ten years after the deal was inked. So we've got about seven more years before the full ramifications of the deal become apparent. By which time, of course, most people probably won't remember that he was even CEO of the DMC at the time, especially if he gets elected mayor. If he was so confident that this was a good deal, why the sudden rush to leave that job and involve himself in Detroit city politics?

Here's the thing...even if you agree with the World Socialist Web Site, you can't blame Duggan [[or any CEO) primarily. They are operating within the rules which exist. If people don't like that jobs are being outsourced to robots or other countries, then that's a public policy issue that they need to take up with elected officials and not one which can be fully blamed on executive decision making.

Taking policy issues up with elected officials is one way of making change happen [[not a particularly effective one in my experience, but your mileage may vary). Another is to vote for candidates who seem to share my approximate views on issues I think are important. Duggan making this deal and spinning it as a great thing for the city is a giant red flag for me that he is probably not on my side of this argument. Given that there's a huge push right now to privatize city services and sell off city assets, I think we need someone in the mayor's office who is going to view those kinds of deals as critically as possible. Duggan does not seem like that person to me.

[Kimmiann]

I do work for the DMC, and have since '97. David Campbell was at the helm then. Then Dr. Arthur Porter, with his company-paid chauffer. At some point the Hunter Group came in to "cut costs". Mike Duggan, who was appointed by Granhom, if I recall correctly, could be seen in the hallways with his shirt-sleeves rolled up and looking like he actually did some work instead of simply ruling on high. He communicated directly and honestly with employees via email and regular staff meetings and seemed genuinely excited by the sale to Vanguard and the opportunities the influx of cash would pose for the DMC as a whole. I was worried when he announced his resignation and now with the Vanguard sale to Tenet Health, I'm still worried. The Vanguard culture is a top-down style of management, whereas Mr. Duggan would gather information from all staff, present the problems as he saw them, and offer up a couple different solutions and ask for opinions, before making a final decision. At that point he would explain why he made the decision he did. I always felt as if he cared what happened to the DMC and its employees. Case in point, a few years back he presented to the staff some pending budget issues and asked if staff would prefer a temporary pay freeze or layoffs. We had a year-long pay freeze. More recently, under Vanguard, we were informed that vacation-time accumulation would freeze for the fourth quarter of the year, after a year of system-wide nerve-wracking layoffs. The pay freeze under Duggan's management was a whole lot more palatable than the vacation-time freeze under VHS, simply because we were given reasons behind the decisions, rather than left to wonder about where Vanguard's axe will fall next. When the decision to sell DMC to Vanguard was announced, Mike Duggan sent out a system-wide email explaining the decision. When VHS announced our sale to Tenet, I heard about it first from my mother, who heard it on the radio, and then from our consultant in Florida. The email from Vanguard didn't hit my inbox until 9:30 am, and it came from the chairman's secretary in the form of a memo with no more style and substance than a press release. In short, I like Mike Duggan, and miss his leadership at the DMC. I think he would make a good mayor for the City of Detroit and a good steward for my tax dollars. Of course, my tax dollars are not enough to entitle me to a vote on the matter. I won't even get started on the whole taxation without representation issue!

[firstandten]

Detroiters, here's how your write Mike Duggan in for mayor:

1. Write his full name MIKE DUGGAN

2. Depending on your voting system circle the oval, put a line between the arrowsor put a check in the box.

It's simple. Then your vote will count.

Also the campaign is real big on each person telling 5 people to do the same. The power of 5

[Wesley Mouch]

I do work for the DMC, and have since '97. David Campbell was at the helm then. Then Dr. Arthur Porter, with his company-paid chauffer. At some point the Hunter Group came in to "cut costs". Mike Duggan, who was appointed by Granhom, if I recall correctly, could be seen in the hallways with his shirt-sleeves rolled up and looking like he actually did some work instead of simply ruling on high. He communicated directly and honestly with employees via email and regular staff meetings and seemed genuinely excited by the sale to Vanguard and the opportunities the influx of cash would pose for the DMC as a whole. I was worried when he announced his resignation and now with the Vanguard sale to Tenet Health, I'm still worried. The Vanguard culture is a top-down style of management, whereas Mr. Duggan would gather information from all staff, present the problems as he saw them, and offer up a couple different solutions and ask for opinions, before making a final decision. At that point he would explain why he made the decision he did. I always felt as if he cared what happened to the DMC and its employees. Case in point, a few years back he presented to the staff some pending budget issues and asked if staff would prefer a temporary pay freeze or layoffs. We had a year-long pay freeze. More recently, under Vanguard, we were informed that vacation-time accumulation would freeze for the fourth quarter of the year, after a year of system-wide nerve-wracking layoffs. The pay freeze under Duggan's management was a whole lot more palatable than the vacation-time freeze under VHS, simply because we were given reasons behind the decisions, rather than left to wonder about where Vanguard's axe will fall next. When the decision to sell DMC to Vanguard was announced, Mike Duggan sent out a system-wide email explaining the decision. When VHS announced our sale to Tenet, I heard about it first from my mother, who heard it on the radio, and then from our consultant in Florida. The email from Vanguard didn't hit my inbox until 9:30 am, and it came from the chairman's secretary in the form of a memo with no more style and substance than a press release. In short, I like Mike Duggan, and miss his leadership at the DMC. I think he would make a good mayor for the City of Detroit and a good steward for my tax dollars. Of course, my tax dollars are not enough to entitle me to a vote on the matter. I won't even get started on the whole taxation without representation issue!

Thanks for sharing your story. We don't hear enough good things around here.

[313WX]

And here we go...
Lawsuit challenges Duggan as write-in candidate for Detroit mayor's race



http://www.freep.com/article/2013070...nged-for-mayor

[Novine]

Barrow's claims are a joke.

[ElbertHanks]

That's not an accurate statement, legally. All you have to determine for a write in vote to count is the voter's intent. It is entirely possible for Duggan to come in second. My money's on Duggan.

Duggan is a pretty simple name but I'd still expect some ballots to be disqualified.

I live pretty far from Detroit these days -- Alaska. So I have first hand experience with a high profile write-in campaign. In 2010 incumbent Lisa Murkowski ran a successful write-in campaign for U.S Senate after losing in the Republican primary. Without getting into the politics of the race I can tell that a little over 1% of the write-in ballots were dismissed out of hand. Approximately 8.5% of the total write-in ballots were challenged by candidate who had beat her in the primary. Some people simply voted for Lisa others absolutely butchered the last name but they were counted as long as you could conclude the voter meant Murkowski. BTW: In the end bad penmanship was a bigger issue than spelling when it came to divining intent.

Finally I would add that the losing candidate filed a lawsuit in Federal Court challenging the process but the suit went nowhere as the number of challenged ballots would not have changed the outcome.

[Honky Tonk]

"he's up, he's down, he's in......" It's actually kind of funny when you read it.

http://www.freep.com/article/2013071...-Detroit-mayor

[downtownguy]

As I walked into a local business on Jefferson Saturday, the Duggan volunteers were out front in force armed with material on how to write in his name. I always seem to get targeted by petition signature seekers and am almost always willing to sign their petition, even if I disagree with their view as I figure they have a right to be on the ballot. The usual opening statement by these signature seekers is, "Are you a registered voter in Detroit/Wayne County, etc? I'm white, and rarely do I get ignored even when the signature seekers are black. Which is why I found it ironic that not a single member of white Mr. Duggan's all-black volunteer force bothered to stop me. I guess they pegged me as a suburbanite.

[sumas]

Actually your right [[should I say write) it's kind of funny.

[sumas]

I just wish someone could explain Barrow's vendetta

[nativegirl]

Barrow's claims are a joke.

Duggan is also involved in another candidate lawsuit. D. Etta Wilcoxson, Candidate for City Clerk. Please check out the website,
http://www.dettawilcoxon.com/#!multimedia/c1n01 go to the legal documents section. Pretty good reading.

[nativegirl]

As I walked into a local business on Jefferson Saturday, the Duggan volunteers were out front in force armed with material on how to write in his name. I always seem to get targeted by petition signature seekers and am almost always willing to sign their petition, even if I disagree with their view as I figure they have a right to be on the ballot. The usual opening statement by these signature seekers is, "Are you a registered voter in Detroit/Wayne County, etc? I'm white, and rarely do I get ignored even when the signature seekers are black. Which is why I found it ironic that not a single member of white Mr. Duggan's all-black volunteer force bothered to stop me. I guess they pegged me as a suburbanite.

Absentee voters got Mike Duggan's literature in the mail yesterday. Saw it with my own eyes on how to write his name on the ballot and all. The absentee voter [[parent) wanted to know when in the sam hill does the absentee ballots come out. I called DOE and was advised that a decision was supposed to be made yesterday with regards to the issue with a City Clerk candidate.

[Novine]

As predicted.

http://www.freep.com/article/2013071...t-mayoral-race