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    Who are the NERD fund donors Mr Snyder?

    Raise the curtain.

    One step forward and two steps back


    By Nick, Section News
    Posted on Wed Jul 01, 2009 at 06:38:17 AM EST
    Tags: Detroit, Conyers, Cockrel, scandal, Bing, privatization, MSM (all tags)

    The wife of embattled United States Congressman John Conyers (D-Detroit), who pled guilty in a federal court this week of accepting a bribe, may remain largely unremorseful but that hasn't stopped the Motor City from beginning to clean up her mess.  Disappointingly, with Detroit it's far too often one step forward and then two steps back.

    On the plus side, yesterday saw some decisive action from City Council President (and former Mayor) Ken Cockrel.  After Mrs. Conyers submitted her official resignation he went ahead and began sweeping away the last vestiges of the Democrat's crooked operation, firing Sunceria Garrett, the aunt whom she'd recently given a fat city contract and declining to renew the contracts of four other Conyers staffers.  The Detroit News:

    Cockrel said his decision to terminate Garrett wasn't based on her relationship to Conyers, but hinged on cutting the budget.

    "Frankly it was an unnecessary position," Cockrel said. "This was not a vacant position. It was filled."

    Say what you will about Cockrel, the man has shown a willingness to make some tough personnel decisions (though I suspect these were relatively easy). Before leaving the Mayor's office Cockrel set in motion a budget savings plan that included hundreds of layoffs and reductions in pay for even more of the cities thousands of taxpayer funded bureaucrats.  

    Detroit, you'll remember, is currently running a budget deficit in the hundreds of millions of dollars while recent gargantuan layoffs in the auto industry have further crippled the tax base (and city "income" projections) for the upcoming fiscal year.  

    Alas, the monster financial storm engulfing the city doesn't seem to worry new mayor Dave Bing.  

    Read on...

    As a candidate the Democrat ran on a businessman's platform.  He knew how to make tough calls and he knew how to create jobs.  Yesterday he proved, at least, that he knows how to save unnecessary taxpayer funded jobs, so I guess that's something.  According to the Ivory Tower:

    Detroit Mayor Dave Bing told the City Council today that he is holding off on implementing wage cuts and layoffs that are a part of the 2009-10 fiscal year budget that will start Wednesday while he first focuses on rooting out inefficiency in city government...

    "I want to look at all of the inefficiencies that are in the system and work on those first," he told reporters afterward. "I think there's some low-hanging fruit that we can correct before we get to layoffs."

    Low-hanging fruit like privatizing services at dramatic taxpayer savings?  Nah, that'd be too easy.  FREEP continues:

    Councilwoman Brenda Jones asked Bing about remarks he made suggesting a strong interest in privatizing services provided by the city's Public Lighting Department. When asked earlier this month by Tavis Smiley, host of PBS's "Tavis Smiley" show on WTVS (Channel 56), about privatizing city services, Bing said, "I can't say that everything has to be privatized, but there are some things that here, in this city, that we ought not be doing as part of government...

    "As we all know, the media is not always right in what they write or what they say," he said.

    Yep... always stinks when the media broadcasts your own words and statements.  Don't know how anyone could ever trust anything like that.  

    *Slapping my own forehead.*

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    Nick, you've caused a bright idea! (none / 0) (#2)
    by maidintheus on Wed Jul 01, 2009 at 10:15:24 AM EST
    This is the answer for the direction of the GOP!

    So often there is cause to slap one's own forehead. If the GOP can resist this completely understandable and natural response by slapping the perp instead, if slapped hard enough it would solve all problems.

    By the by, I have connection problems with this site. I've finally checked with my provider and they suggested I let you know.

    This problem has happened before but for the past month it's become an issue every time I want to access this site. I get a page load error of "unable to connect" or "the server is taking too long." It usually takes about 30 minutes of continuous attempts and doesn't happen elsewhere.

    Wanna hear about my conspiracy theory? It involves Granholm, Cherry, Levin, et al. jk, lol

    Happy Slapping!!!  

    Just because Nick's headline . . . (none / 0) (#3)
    by Kevin Rex Heine on Wed Jul 01, 2009 at 11:10:28 PM EST
    . . . put the song in my head.  Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Desert Rose Band.



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