"That's a question I get asked all the time, because some people do wonder why they [[the candidates) would want the job," said Bill Ballenger, publisher of Inside Michigan Politics. "But there is an opportunity here to achieve things that no mayor has been able to do for the past 30 years."
from NYTimes/Reuters

I think the next mayor has the greatest opportunity ever to remake Detroit, and will have more power than any mayor in recent memory -- because they'll actually be able to do things.