Terryh Member Username: Terryh
Post Number: 92 Registered: 11-2006
| Posted on Thursday, January 18, 2007 - 8:31 pm: | |
The media has a field day with the city of Detroit for alledged and proven mismanagement of funds, yet when municipal misdeeds occur in suburban governments its a thirty-second spot on Fox2 or half a paragraph in local news. All one has to do is pay close attention to news reports of local government officials gone astray. With Detroit officials its always a protracted investigation, whereas, with holier than thou hizzoner in the suburbs its hear all about it today-forget all about it tomorrow. If I was a gambling man, I would wager that the sneaky back door deals of todays Detroit pales in comparison to Prohibition era Detroit when thousands of speakeasies operated unmolested by cops on the take. During the Cavanaugh administration there were allegations of Mafia connections to city hall- police brutality was rampant and condoned by a paranoid racially divided polity. All one has to do is review periodicals and newspaper archives from previous decades to realize that shifty-shady dealings didn't begin with King Coleman Young or hip-hop Kwame Kilpatrick. |
Lilpup Member Username: Lilpup
Post Number: 1607 Registered: 06-2004
| Posted on Thursday, January 18, 2007 - 8:41 pm: | |
and? |
Irish_mafia Member Username: Irish_mafia
Post Number: 688 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Thursday, January 18, 2007 - 8:52 pm: | |
well said lilpup |
Track75 Member Username: Track75
Post Number: 2476 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Thursday, January 18, 2007 - 8:57 pm: | |
Nice piece of justification/excuse-making. I wonder why the financial difficulties at GM get more press than the actual bankruptcy of Collins & Aikman? Could it be that more people are affected by the larger entity? Could it be that GM (or Detroit) are the big Kahuna in these parts and they'll always be in the spotlight? |
Irish_mafia Member Username: Irish_mafia
Post Number: 690 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Thursday, January 18, 2007 - 9:10 pm: | |
The real question is why its so hard to find a good after-hours speak easy... in the city or the suburbs! My parents bought a house in GP that my grandfather came to visit. He pointed out that the house behind theirs was an old speakeasy that had been owned by a Detroit cop that had been hurt and needed a place to make a few bucks in his "retirement." The cops of the day looked the other way.... and my grampa did his best to contribute to the retirement fund. |
Terryh Member Username: Terryh
Post Number: 96 Registered: 11-2006
| Posted on Thursday, January 18, 2007 - 9:14 pm: | |
Not by any means justifying. Just comparing and analyzing and looking for responses. Good point about being in the spotlight. |
56packman Member Username: 56packman
Post Number: 915 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Thursday, January 18, 2007 - 10:36 pm: | |
Yea, the local media just ignores Warren politics and its mayor Steenbergh. Never heard a word about it in the media. Yet despite all that goes on there, the city manages to provide services, the police really do care what goes on, and responds to situations immediately, and a suprising number of kids graduate from school and some go on to college. But you never hear about the mayor's dirty doings. (Message edited by 56packman on January 19, 2007) |
Wash_man Member Username: Wash_man
Post Number: 299 Registered: 05-2006
| Posted on Friday, January 19, 2007 - 11:13 am: | |
Maybe because he doesn't go around town with a posse of thugs drawing attention to himself. (Message edited by wash_man on January 19, 2007) |
Ro_resident Member Username: Ro_resident
Post Number: 192 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Friday, January 19, 2007 - 11:20 am: | |
So none of you heard about the treasurer of Alcona County? Alcona Co. treasurer charged with stealing county funds http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs .dll/article?AID=/20070117/NEW S06/70117037/1048/BUSINESS05 Idiot. Talk about a violation of the public's trust. |
Lilpup Member Username: Lilpup
Post Number: 1610 Registered: 06-2004
| Posted on Friday, January 19, 2007 - 11:25 am: | |
I'm sorry but how stupid do you have to be to fall for those email scams? |
Swingline Member Username: Swingline
Post Number: 677 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Friday, January 19, 2007 - 12:29 pm: | |
quote:Maybe because he doesn't go around town with a posses of thugs drawing attention to himself. Wow, a little contemptuous aren't we? Bitter even? Grow up man. The mayor certainly overstaffs when it comes to executive protection, but your post only succeeds in broadcasting your disrespect. Blah blah blah, the mayor listens to hip-hop, and since he is usually surrounded by people when he is in public, you label that group as a thug posse. Your nuanced view of things is impressive. |
Gannon Member Username: Gannon
Post Number: 7907 Registered: 12-2003
| Posted on Friday, January 19, 2007 - 1:04 pm: | |
It is not stupidity that fells them, it is simple greed. Then pride gets in the way so they try to hide it. The Alcona guy's troubles multiplied magnificently when he decided to go into the business himself to 'earn' his way out of his personal cash problem. Bringing the county's money into it was only convenient. One quarter of their operating budget eliminated by mere human nature. |
Focusonthed Member Username: Focusonthed
Post Number: 772 Registered: 02-2006
| Posted on Friday, January 19, 2007 - 1:07 pm: | |
NEPOTISM? BRIBERY? KICKBACKS? Come to Chicago. They practically invented the stuff. Yet in spite of this, things get done there. That is why it gets so much attention in Detroit, if you ask me. Detroit has little wiggle room. |
Detroitrulez Member Username: Detroitrulez
Post Number: 130 Registered: 12-2006
| Posted on Friday, January 19, 2007 - 5:16 pm: | |
no kidding. Detroit can never catch a break. People need to realize that Detroit is rising because, among other developments, Woody Harrelson and Will Ferrell are filming movies here. |
Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul
Post Number: 282 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Friday, January 19, 2007 - 8:55 pm: | |
Detroit is to be the head of the metro area and demonstrate how things should be run for smaller communities that surround it. This is sort of akin to like a father and son scenario. Therefore, Detroit's mistakes should inherently get more coverage as I see it. |
Beavis1981 Member Username: Beavis1981
Post Number: 71 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Friday, January 19, 2007 - 11:09 pm: | |
here in oxford the police chief was caught playing golf while collecting disability! 80% of the department was disbanded and handed over to oakland county pd. That same golf course was busted for having strippers on the course to improve business! and I'm sure nobody outside of oxford has heard about this |
Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul
Post Number: 287 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Friday, January 19, 2007 - 11:29 pm: | |
Not necessarily true. They did make a big deal about that guy when that happened a few years back 'a hidden camera investigation' or something like that. |