The Freep Press endorsement of Dave Bing probably has a lot to do with the lack of capability of Ken Cockrel. Let's face it, there are a lot of unkowns with Dave Bing, but there are no doubts that Cockrel is a bust. He's boasted of re-opening the 10th precinct and opening 4 new mini-stations along with getting a cobo deal done in 3 months. I think we're all familiar with the cobo deal disaster. And as far as the police stations are concerned, unless there was a hirng of about 75+ new officers [[which I don't recall), all he's done is taken more cops off of the streets and put them behind desks.

Cockrel brags about his experience as a Council Member for the last 11 years. If you examine that you realize that he was simply the captain of the team that couldn't shoot straight. We can point fingers at Monica Conyers, justifiably, all we want. But, City Council was a joke before there was a Martha Reeves or Monica Conyers on it. Before them, you had Sharon McPhail, Joanne Watson and Barabara Rose Collins all acting like fools and he was a part of their alliance along with Maryann Mahaffey and a lot of bad decisions were made that hurt this City dearly.

And with Maryann being sick for much of the term, Ken Cockrel pretty much was in charge of the Council at the time that Lonnie Bates and Kay Everrett were doing their thing. And guess what? So was Ken Cockrel through his Chief of Staff John Clark. Is anyone dumb enough to believe that Ken Cockrel didn't have any knowledge of what was going on? John Clark was his middle man in a lot of dirty deals and cover ups. Ken Cockrel excused a lot of sexual harassment by one of his former city council employees along with that employee assaulting a Detroit Police Officer at a City Council Party. Ken Cockrel even solicited donations from corporate entities in order to hold a picnic at one of the other Councilmembers private residences a couple of years ago. He's dirty as hell and the Free Press knows it. They won't endorse him because they know it's just a matter of time before he's caught.