Detroit Mayor Calls It In

[Ptarmigan]

Detroit Mayor Calls It In
http://news.yahoo.com/detroit-mayor-calls-084500228.html

After a tumultuous four years overseeing a city long riddled with blight, corruption, crime, and historic financial issues, mayor David Bing has had enough, telling a stunned audience at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History Tuesday that he’d leave when his term ends in December.

The 69-year-old Bing, a hall-of-fame NBA player who spent most of his career with the Pistons and then was a successful businessman in Detroit had never ran for office before narrowly winning the 2009 race to replace Kwame Kilpatrick, who in less than a term in office had gone from rising Democratic star to scandal-embroiled mayor to convicted felon. After winning a full term the same year, Bing tried to turn around a city that has been losing population and sinking into an ever-deeper economic hole for decades, with a City Council resistant to his plans for radical changes to save Detroit and the looming prospect of the Republican governor appointing an emergency economic manager who would effectively take control of the city’s finances from its elected officials. When Governor Rick Snyder in March ended months of deliberation by appointing Kevyn Orr emergency manager, with sweeping powers to modify contracts and sell city assets, Bing, whose frustrations had been mounting, had enough.

Detroit is pretty much dead. Meanwhile, Michigan could have a surplus.


Gov. Snyder projects $461 million budget surplus for Michigan
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130515/POLITICS02/305150378/Gov-Snyder-projects-461-million-budget-surplus-Michigan?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE

Lansing — Gov. Rick Snyder's administration is projecting the state will have a $461.4 million budget surplus this year from an unexpected increase in tax revenue.

 The Treasury Department's estimates the general fund will grow by $394.6 million this fiscal year and the School Aid fund will receive $66.8 million more than economists forecasted four months ago.

 Economists from Treasury and the non-partisan House and Senate fiscal agencies are meeting Wednesday morning at the Capitol to come to a consensus on tax revenues for the 2013 and 2014 fiscal years.

[Eupher]

Detroit Mayor Calls It In
http://news.yahoo.com/detroit-mayor-calls-084500228.html

Detroit is pretty much dead. Meanwhile, Michigan could have a surplus.


Gov. Snyder projects $461 million budget surplus for Michigan
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130515/POLITICS02/305150378/Gov-Snyder-projects-461-million-budget-surplus-Michigan?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE

**** Bing.

The whiny little bitch had PLENTY of opportunity to get the city at least on track, but the fact was, he didn't have the political will or ability to crack the infestation of graft, greed, and corruption that cripples that hellhole. He didn't have the balls to go toe-to-toe with the city council and while Gov. Snyder gave Bing every opportunity to work out the issues on his own, the fact remains that Bing could not.

Detroit can't pay its bills because the stranglehold of the unions and the corruption is so intertwined (sorta like D.C.) means payouts are happening everywhere BUT where they're supposed to go.

City services are just about nonexistent. Garbage pickup? Forget it. The cops? They might be there tomorrow. 911? They'll hang up on you. The fire department? They'll get to you as soon as they're done putting out the arson blaze of the hour.

Wayne County is just as bad. Completely corrupt.

Kilpatrick was a thug and is in prison. Bing is not a thug, but he is not the "successful businessman" that the author of the article would like you to believe.

Right now he's a whiny little bitch whose number has been finally called. So he's taking his bassetball and he's going home.

Stay classy, Dave. You were a great bassetball playah, but a politician who can get things done? Forget that too.