RJK -- You hit the nail on the head. In Friday's paper Godbee promised to get to the bottom of the lab mess and vowed it would "never happen again." In Saturday's paper, he acknowledges that cleaning up the lab had been his responsibility.
That's truly incredible. Did he forget on Friday was his role had been, or did he fail to realize what a big story this would become? Given the way he entered the chief's job -- admitting he had had an affair with the same lieutenant who was Chief Evans' lover -- I would say Godbee has two strikes against him.
With Godbee looking like a jerk and his direct boss, Saul Green, quitting, there once again is a crisis of leadership in Detroit city government's most important department. And the drift in the DPD symbolizes the overall drift in the Bing administration. Did anyone catch Charlie LeDuff's column on the Fox 2 website that reported how Bing had a Ronald Reagan moment this week, when he said Norm White was his CFO, but Norm White is long gone?
Sad.
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