Endorsements - August 2009 Election

**HazenPingree** · July-21-09, 08:14 PM

Today, Crain's released their endorsements for the primary, which I was honored to find included an endorsement of my campaign!

www.AndrewLinnForDetroit.com

**Jmil** · July-22-09, 10:13 AM

Fannie Lou Hamer PAC
http://www.flhpac.org/

DETROIT CITY COUNCIL
GARY BROWN
SAUNTEEL JENKINS
RAPHAEL B. JOHNSON
BRENDA JONES*
CHARLES PUGH
ANDRE SPIVEY
ALBERTA TINSLEY-TALBI*
JOANN WATSON*
BRIAN WHITE

WOW!!!
3 incumbents & and a murderer - wow!!!

**Jmil** · July-22-09, 07:03 PM

Metro Times takes a pass. Sorta.
http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14193

Not endorsed, but...

Ken Cockrel Jr.
Brenda Jones
Gary Brown
Saunteel Jenkins
JoAnn Watson
John Bennett

**omega** · July-22-09, 07:24 PM

This was paid for endorsement. Most of these are pay to play people.

**omega** · July-22-09, 07:25 PM

Originally Posted by Jmil

Fannie Lou Hamer PAC
http://www.flhpac.org/

DETROIT CITY COUNCIL
GARY BROWN
SAUNTEEL JENKINS
RAPHAEL B. JOHNSON
BRENDA JONES*
CHARLES PUGH
ANDRE SPIVEY
ALBERTA TINSLEY-TALBI*
JOANN WATSON*
BRIAN WHITE

WOW!!!
3 incumbents & and a murderer - wow!!!

Not a doubt in my mind these candidate paid for the endorsements

**omega** · July-23-09, 06:26 PM

Originally Posted by Jmil

Fannie Lou Hamer PAC
http://www.flhpac.org/

DETROIT CITY COUNCIL
GARY BROWN
SAUNTEEL JENKINS
RAPHAEL B. JOHNSON
BRENDA JONES*
CHARLES PUGH
ANDRE SPIVEY
ALBERTA TINSLEY-TALBI*
JOANN WATSON*
BRIAN WHITE

WOW!!!
3 incumbents & and a murderer - wow!!!

Wow. The murder caught my eye. They must of paid a sweet buck to add there name to this list. LOL

Watson and Jenkins does not even pay TAXES!!! COME ON.. BY NOW WE NEED EVERY TAX DOLLAR..
Vote Ken Harris Charter Commision and Dale Foster city council. www.friendsforfoster.com

Ravine · July-23-09, 08:41 PM

I have no intention of voting for a guy who sees the condition of gas station rest rooms as being significant enough to deserve mention in his goddam mission statement.

And using enormous print to endorse him doesn't elicit any special consideration for him, either.

"omega has not made any friends yet"

**Jmil** · July-24-09, 08:14 AM

Top 20 candidates
http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/news...y_council_poll

01 Charles Pugh
02 Ken Cockrel
03 Gary Brown
04 Kwame Kenyatta
05 Jai-Lee Dearing
06 James Tate
07 Brenda Jones
08 John Bennett
09 Alberta Tinsley-Talabi
10 JoAnn Watson
11 Shaunteel Jenkins
12 Andre Spivey
13 Raymond Murphy
14 Otis Mathis
15 Anne-Ivory Calvert
16 Derrick Hale
17 Barbara Rose-Collins
18 Mikal Crawford
19 Martha Reeves
20 Monica Conyers

**HazenPingree** · July-24-09, 11:02 AM

Originally Posted by Jmil

15 Anne-Ivory Calvert

I met Ms. Calvert. She is very nice, and told me about her platform: Turn Cobo green, and create [[conservatively) 150,000 jobs. Wow! That would add what, 50% more jobs to the city? ...and all in ONE building! What other candidate is offering that? Plus, she's Joel Loving's mom, so, you know...

MIRepublic · July-24-09, 07:36 PM

Originally Posted by Jmil

Top 20 candidates
http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/news...y_council_poll

01 Charles Pugh
02 Ken Cockrel
03 Gary Brown
04 Kwame Kenyatta
05 Jai-Lee Dearing
06 James Tate
07 Brenda Jones
08 John Bennett
09 Alberta Tinsley-Talabi
10 JoAnn Watson
11 Shaunteel Jenkins
12 Andre Spivey
13 Raymond Murphy
14 Otis Mathis
15 Anne-Ivory Calvert
16 Derrick Hale
17 Barbara Rose-Collins
18 Mikal Crawford
19 Martha Reeves
20 Monica Conyers

Here are the actual percentages of respondants who said they'd "vote for the candidate":

• Charles Pugh, 65.6 percent
• Kenneth Cockrel Jr., 57.8 percent
• Gary Brown, 47.4 percent
• Kwame Kenyatta, 44.6 percent
• Jai-Lee Dearing, 41.2 percent
• James Tate, 37.5 percent
• Brenda Jones, 36.5 percent
• John Bennett, 36.6 percent
• Alberta Tinsley-Talabi, 29.4 percent
• JoAnn Watson, 28.3 percent
• Saunteel Jenkins, 26.9 percent
• Andre Spivey, 27.2 percent
• Ray Murphy, 23.9 percent
• Otis Mathis, 23.4 percent
• Annivory Calvert, 21.6 percent
• Derrick Hale, 22.5 percent
• Mikal Crawford, 20.3 percent
• Barbara-Rose Collins, 18 percent
• Martha Reeves, 15.6 percent
• Monica Conyers, 13.2 percent

Notice the three who round out the bottom. Grebner says that even Tinsley-Talabi isn't a shoe-in for re-election.

**HazenPingree** · July-24-09, 08:59 PM

Anyone else notice that http://martharosereeves.com/, the website for Ms. Reeves is, as of July 24th, all written in some sort of faux-latin? Also, the "latest images" link on the bottom right of the page links to an East Asian photo stream.

**Russix** · August-01-09, 06:07 PM

Originally Posted by Ravine

I have no intention of voting for a guy who sees the condition of gas station rest rooms as being significant enough to deserve mention in his goddam mission statement.

And using enormous print to endorse him doesn't elicit any special consideration for him, either.

"omega has not made any friends yet"

All of dale's I mean omega's posts are #13. We will soon find out if this translates into Lucky 13 or Unlucky 13.