Quote Originally Posted by corktownyuppie View Post
I don't have a problem with the irresponsible panderers on council. I have a problem when the irresponsible panderers start outnumbering the responsible solution-finders.
That isn't really the role of a weak city council such as Detroit's. However, what happens in more functional cities is that the council panders, but passes the mayor's budget anyway with a few changes that they can point to as improvements. In Detroit, currently, the mayor makes inadequate proposals, and then the council obstructs them. That's a bad place to be, but the council isn't the main problem.