Throw Your Hands In The Air; Cause Anybody Can Be Mayor.. Riiite

Dave Bing Is Now the Mayor Of Detroit -

Yeah.. Uh Huh… But What Will He Do Next ?

NBA great Dave Bing wins race for Detroit mayor

By COREY WILLIAMS – 15 minutes ago

DETROIT (AP) — Basketball legend Dave Bing was elected Tuesday as Detroit’s mayor through the end of the year, sweeping the incumbent from office in the city with myriad problems.

“The real work starts now,” Bing said to loud cheers during his victory speech.

“What we will bring … is efficiency, transparency, honesty and integrity back to the mayor’s office,” he said.

He has to work with City Council which includes both Ken”Shrek” Cockrell who he Defeated and the One and Only Monica “Grease Me Up” Conyers.

This is Monica Conyers, you may remember her – she’s the wife of Congressman John Conyers of Detroit.

anyway this is a quick video refresher on this chica.

Today she goes back to her old job of being just president pro-tem council person; instead of council president.

She’s sure to be in a sour mood when council convenes this morning. It’s probably because her nemesses Ken “Shrek” Cockrell (show above at his swearing in) lost the special election held in Detroit, to fill the remainder of the term vacated by Kwame “The Mack” Kilpatrick.

This was when he was removed for his part in the schemes and games that made him a legend in us politics, Last Fall.

This is the Shrek Clip,

which is Hillarious – Oh Yes this was “In Session”

We don’t think she’ll survive through her term because she has that Deer in the Headlights Look after getting caught with her hand in the Synagro Sludge Pot.

Monica Monica Monica.. what must we do with you ?

it’s because of this one council person that the entire Cobo Hall Expansion Deal was Killed. this means that the Detroit Auto Show May Cease To Exist.

It Screws the Proposed Budget; as well as lots of other large events that would have been booking into Cobo Hall if they had the damn doors and elevators fixed. who has an auto show where they have to basically drive the cars in from the roof, after you drive them up a winding ramp ontop of a fricken building; because your ground floor doors are broke and or your elevators are broken; For YEARS – This is a Major Convention Facility we’re talking about here.

Damn You Monica..

North American International Auto Show May Move Out of Cobo

Posted April 20 2009 07:30 AM by Joshua Duval
Category: News, International

NAIAS May Move Out of Cobo

After the Michigan Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Detroit’s city council, the co-chairman of the North American International Auto Show said the show may move from its long-time Cobo Center home to another southeastern Michigan venue.

The court upheld an earlier ruling that Detroit Mayor Ken Cockrel could not veto the Detroit City Council’s rejection of state legislation that would have placed Cobo into the hands of a regional authority, and poured some $288 million into renovating the convention center. Cockrel’s press secretary said the mayor will not appeal to the Michigan Supreme Court.

Without renovations and expansions to the center, Douglass Fox, one of the co-chairman of the Detroit auto show, said new locations would be considered for housing the show.

“At this point we need to consider any viable option that might be out there for us,” Fox said. “There have been leaders – L. Brooks Patterson comes to mind – who have made those overtures. We need to explore those options.

“It has taken 20 years to build the show into the international show that it is today, and our committee is in total agreement and solidarity that we must protect the stature of this show. If it means considering other venues, then that’s what we have to do,” he said.

Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson has said he would try to attract the auto show to Oakland County if the plan to transfer Cobo to a regional authority failed.

Fox said he doesn’t predict a viable plan to improve Cobo will emerge without the cooperation of a regional authority.

“I say this, not challenging anything, or with any angst at all, but we have a business, a very viable business, that generates between $350 million and $500 million in economic benefit a year,” Fox said. “We just can’t allow that opportunity to be jeopardized, for the region or for the auto dealers.”

Cockrel will continue working with the city council, Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm and state legislators to come up with a plan to get Cobo the renovations it needs, he said in a statement.

“We have every intention of retaining and expanding the North American International Auto Show, and attracting new conventions and trade shows to Detroit. The Final Four, the All-Star Game, and many more major events have proven in recent years that Detroit is a tremendous host, and our guests have a great time when they’re here.”

Dave Bing: Working with Detroit City Council

City auditor questions Detroit mayor’s budget

By Nancy Kaffer

Detroit Mayor Ken Cockrel Jr.’s budget for fiscal 2009-10 overestimates revenues, underestimates appropriations and doesn’t adequately address the city’s projected budget deficit, according to a report by the city’s auditor general.

Revenues in the mayor’s $3.6 billion budget could be too high by $25 million, Auditor General Loren Monroe wrote in a report to the Detroit City Council, and appropriations $35 million too low.

Both property and income taxes are not likely to meet the $529 million projected in the budget, the auditor wrote in the May 1 report, based on current economic conditions, and could fall short by a collective $22 million.

Payroll and salary estimates are on target, Monroe wrote, but said that insufficient funds are budgeted for overtime expenses.

The auditor also said that the administration hasn’t released enough information about the proposed securitization of revenues from the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel and the municipal lighting and parking systems to enable his office to determine whether those measures would suffice to eliminate the city’s $280 million deficit, carried forward from past years.

Dave Bing: Positioning Detroit in the Global Economy

Anyway Detroit has a new mayor, and we’re hoping it means change for the better. Mr. Bing, we’ll be keeping our eyes on your too. you are just as much in charge as any of the others who’ve trounced our faith and spirit; so here’s one bit of advice – “Don’t Try Us“,,

Gil Scott-Heron | We Almost Lost Detroit
Gil Scott-Heron and his Amnesia Express from March 14, 1990 in London, UK.

Detroit is a city of steppin razors now and anybody who crosses someone is just sharpening steel for a fight.

Forbes ranks Detroit tops — in danger

Santiago Esparza / The Detroit News

Detroit has earned a dubious distinction from Forbes Magazine: the Most Dangerous City in America.

Basing the ranking on the city’s rate of 1,200 violent crimes per 100,000 people and other violent crime statistics from the FBI, Forbes determined that Detroit is tops on its list of dangerous cities. Detroit is followed in order by the Memphis and Miami metropolitan areas.

“Detroit has historically been one of the more violent cities in the U.S.,” said Megan Wolfran, an analyst with iJet Intelligent Risk Systems, a Maryland-based risk assessment firm. “They have a number of local crime syndicates there — a number of small gangs who tend to compete over territory.”

The Forbes article states that some of Detroit’s problems stem from a huge population decline since the 1960s coupled with rapid suburbanization and a decline in manufacturing jobs.

The article is snarky in tone and mentions the jailing of former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. The piece ends with mention of Kenneth Cockrel Jr. becoming mayor last September and not having committed a felony since. But the piece gets the year wrong in which Cockrel assumed office, stating it occurred this year instead of last.

The article can be viewed at www.forbes.com/2009/04/23/most-dangerous-cities-lifestyle-real-estate-dangerous-american-cities_print.html.