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| Detroit Mayor Calls It In |
| 2013-05-16 |
| [NEWS.YAHOO] After a tumultuous four years overseeing a city long riddled with blight, corruption, crime, and historic financial issues, mayor Dave 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 run 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. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 A good man badly used. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2013-05-16 18:13 |
| #5 Why does Dave Bing wait till December? Detroit is a dead horse, and nothing he does will make any difference. Time to leave. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2013-05-16 11:29 |
| #4 Detroit is, indeed, the Liberal Utopia - their 'Model City'. People really need to pay attention to this. What has been done in Detroit is being done even now in states like California and being pushed on a grand scale nationally. Do they really think that "this time we'll get it right"? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2013-05-16 10:31 |
| #3 Detroit is a case study in what takes place when tax paying citizens depart and all that remains are the entitlement crowd led by the party of urban Amerika [sic]. Closer to home, the once highly desired suburban Atlanta neighborhoods of Forest Park, East Point, and Jonesboro are now crumbling, crime ridden ghettos. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-05-16 09:46 |
| #2 Yup, the folks still there are still pretty much in denial. The ones who get the extent of the problem now live in Dearborn. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2013-05-16 09:38 |
| #1 Bing seemed to have his heart and mind in the right place to try and turn it around. Unfortunately he had to deal with the Klepto-entitled racialist Detroit area politicians and citizens. Nobody gonna help you out Detroit. You sh*t the bed, clean it up yourself |
| Posted by: Frank G 2013-05-16 07:59 |