Quote Originally Posted by kraig View Post
At the rate he's going, Charles Pugh won't have the legal residence needed to run for office. Seriously, the public has already seen that Pugh got into politics in order to have a Kwame style Civic Fund. You also have to take into consideration that if the public is going to hold Bing accountable, they're going to hold Council accountable as well.
The Council has already held hearings on DTE/Fire Dept. as well as EMS. They've allocated the funding that these departments need. In short, they've done everything that the Charter allows them to do in terms of the issues that most Detroiters care about.

If both Mayor Bing and the City Council are held accountable, the Council will fair much better.

If you seriously look at recent history, you'll see that Pugh isn't as popular as Hill was when he ran and lost against a non-incumbent. So Pugh's chances don't look that good. Besides, will Pugh risk giving up his Council seat to run against Bing? I don't think so.
Pugh and/or Brown can run for mayor under the argument that they've done everything for Detroiters that the Charter allows them to do. Bing will not be able to say that, unless he turns things around in the next 2 1/2 years. That's a huge difference from the Hill vs. Kilpatrick race of 2001.