Bad Sign - CC Candidate

**Jmil** · July-21-09, 07:53 AM

Candidate Michelle Robinson is suing to reprint ballots.
Basically she is suing because:
They gave her what she asked for - now she doesn't want it - so she is suing.
http://freep.com/article/20090721/NE...allots-changed

More of the same dumb stuff. She is not even on the council yet and is already acting like one of them. Wasting city money and resources.

**Detroitej72** · July-21-09, 10:41 PM

She will fit right in with all the other fools.

**MsChievous** · July-21-09, 10:54 PM

Sigh......

**Detroit Stylin** · July-22-09, 08:24 AM

Yeah u got that right MsChievous.....*sigh*

**Supersport** · July-22-09, 08:37 AM

For lack of better words to describe her, what a fuckin' moron!

**sharmaal** · July-22-09, 03:06 PM

She's no dummy. She just got more press than she could ever pay for. Good or bad doesn't matter. It's the name recognition.

**Jmil** · July-22-09, 04:25 PM

She is not the only one to avoid. More bad signs.
http://detnews.com/article/20090722/...mished-records

"Nineteen candidates running for the Detroit City Council owe a combined $2.4 million in unpaid income and property taxes, nearly one in seven has filed for bankruptcy and 12 have lost homes to the bank, according to court, tax and property records.
The names on the Aug. 4 primary ballot also will include three felons, including one who served 81 months in a federal prison for racketeering related to prostitution and another convicted of second-degree murder. "

What is worse is, some of these folks are receiving endorsements from "credible" sources.

**daddeeo** · July-22-09, 04:56 PM

Sounds like the kind of experience you'd want on a city council right?
These guys are just hoping to catch lighting in a bottle.
As long as they can get a few signatures and pay to qualify for the ballot, they have a fighting chance.

**Detwa** · July-22-09, 06:20 PM

Ha, from that same article linked above, check out this winner:

Some miscues have to do with personal behavior.
Walter James Hart Jr., who ran for a council seat in 2005 and now has a nonprofit business training service dogs, spends his time on the campaign trail talking about redemption, something he says he knows about first-hand.
Hart served 81 months in federal prison in the 1990s after being convicted of transporting a 16-year-old girl to Washington, D.C., to "train her" to be a better prostitute. According to the girl's testimony, whenever she gave Hart the money she earned, "I had to bow down to him, kiss his feet, call him 'oh messiah,' tell him, 'I love you oh daddy.'"
He later pleaded guilty to federal racketeering charges for being part of a Detroit-area group that found young women in strip clubs and forcing them into prostitution.
More recently, in 2006, Hart was found guilty in Oakland County court of a felony charge of failure to pay roughly $130,000 in child support. He remains on probation.
"I believe in giving people a second chance," Hart said. "My campaign is about reform. That's what Detroit needs."

EastSider · July-22-09, 07:13 PM

Just like he offered that 16 year-old girl a second chance to become a better whore.

**Detwa** · July-22-09, 07:17 PM

That man should be ashamed to even show his face in the street, much less have the nerve to be running for a city government position. And its even more disturbing that he has children.

Apparently, people think the city council position is just a joke. It's like a convicted pedophile applying for a job at a daycare center. The current council can thank themselves for turning the job into a huge joke so that people like this Hart character have the gall to apply for it with a straight face.

**Crumbled_pavement** · July-22-09, 08:56 PM

MsChievous and AndyLynn - when you guys get elected to the Charter Commission, can you add a restriction in the charter that prohibits felons from holding any elected position in the city? You know what, add a restriction for owing any back taxes [[city, state, federal, property, sales, etc) too. Oh, oh, and credit as well as background checks and drug screening.

Thanks