... and using the occasion to beat up on Pontiac. Sort of like the rich guy with two speedboats complaining about the lady down the street who was fired from CVS after her husband left her for a younger woman. Stay classy, Lewis...

http://detnews.com/article/20110712/...%80%99s-headed

What's the future of Detroit? Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson points to Pontiac as a harbinger: It's the big city's smaller Oakland County mirror image, and it's a disaster.
He blames Pontiac officials for managing the city badly, refusing timely offers of help and now turning to the county out of desperation. "Pontiac," he says, "is nothing but a drain [[on the county.) We offered, repeatedly, to help. They basically said, 'Get out.'"
It's a measure of these still tough times that Patterson — who used to boast that his county was one of the nation's three wealthiest large counties — is now touting the county's "diminished rate of decline," as property values continue to sink. They're down by $14 billion from their peak, and the best projections say they'll fall for another two years.
During an interview in his office, Patterson displayed every indication he relished fighting for Oakland County as much during a prolonged economic disaster as he had during the glory years before recession struck. Now in his fifth term, he's positioning himself for a 2012 election campaign as a farsighted administrator who knows how to cope with adversity.