To the Citizens of the City of Detroit: You're idiots.

[crazyjoe]

@Yeticus Rex

Just curious…how did he do this?

Well, we have some particularly persistant local reporters, you know, the “Channel 7 Problem Solvers” type of dudes.

He was folllowing the mayor, asking some questions of him, when the mayor had one of his bodyguards basically just slam the dude into a wall and hold him there.

He was not threatening the mayor in any way, but the mayor got the message across…when I say no comment, I mean no comment or I’ll rip your balls off.

[St.Urho]

I’m just curious why you thought Freman Hendrix would be any better for Detroit.

[Ike_Witt]

@Marley23

Meanwhile, I’m curious to see what happened in Detroit with the dead people voting.

Dead people vote Republican, don’t they?

[Marley23]

@adam yax

Dead people vote Republican, don’t they?

That’s what I hear. But they prefer candidates with palm tree-shaped hair and lugubrious voices, and so I don’t know if Freman Hendrix would pass muster with the dead.

[Paul_in_Qatar]

@Marley23

That’s what I hear. But they prefer candidates with palm tree-shaped hair and lugubrious voices, and so I don’t know if Freman Hendrix would pass muster with the dead.

Sideshow Mel?

[Shirley_Ujest]

[QUOTE=tsarina]

@Shirley Ujest

What Detroit needs is a class 5 hurricane to rip through it so we can start over from scratch.QUOTE]

It makes you wonder why Kwame offered to let New Orleans evacuees resettle in Detroit, because it sure as hell isn’t any better there! :rolleyes:

And to make it even more pathetic for the refugee’s many settled in Flint. Flint!

We have two armpits here in Michigan: Detroit and Flint. (Flint actually has some nice thingies and it is closer to me. But, still…)

[TwistofFate]

“the dead have arisen and are voting Republican!” Lisa Simpson, Sideshow Bob Roberts

[UrbanChic]

@TwistofFate

“the dead have arisen and are voting Republican!” Lisa Simpson, Sideshow Bob Roberts

It was Bart who (more or less) said that.

As to how Kilpatrick managed to win, I’d start looking at why some head honchos over at GM and other major coporations in the area pumped a great deal of money into his campaign at the last minute. Plus, that commercial he kept running showing police dragging an old lady out of a meeting paired with his opponent yelling at the participants was apparently pretty effective.

[Loopydude]

If it makes y’all feel any better, I was living in DC when we re-elected Marion Barry. His stint in prison had little correctional impact, it would seem, as he proceeded to fuck the city harder than during his original heyday, when smoking crack with whores kept him preoccupied, and limited the damage he could do by using his own ostensibly sober judgement to govern.

[Loopydude]

@bouv

Seriously, though, NYC was NOT the bright lights glam city it was in the 40s and 50s, or is today. Just compare the blackout of '77 to the one in 2003. The first one was rememberd because of the looting and vandalism. The current one is remembered because of the LACK of those things. It is definetly a different city than it once was. If it can be done to NYC, it can be done to Detroit, but unfortunatly, there are a lot less people who are willing to make Detroit better than there was to make NYC better, it seems.

How much of Dinkins’ defeat could be attributed to episodes like the Crown Heights riots?

[Odinoneeye]

@adam yax

Honest question. Is Detroit ever going to be anything other than a shithole, no matter who is mayor? I am under the impression that most of Detroit proper, not counting the suburbs, is pretty much too far gone to make any sort of comeback economically viable.

As a long time resident of the burbs, I’ve always said that Detroit needs some kind of toursit attraction.

Every city has it’s crime/racism/violence, but most have positive things to counterbalance it and bring in the tourist money.

We don’t.

Don’t get me wrong, we have a art museum, science center and zoo that are on par with most cities, but most cities have these things that are on par with Detroit’s. There’ nothing unique to pull people in.

NYC has the Statue of LIberty while we have a big fist on Jefferson Ave.

Anyway, like I say, I live in the burbs so I didn’t vote in this election. I do work in Detroit so pay about $200 in city taxes every year. I don’t see that changing very much no matter who the mayor is.

[Miller]

@lonesome loser

Let’s see.

You had two guys running.

They both presented their cases to the voters. The voters chose.

Your guy lost.

Sour grapes.

Hey, exactly how many Bush-bashing threads have you started since you joined up here, anyway? Ya fuckin’ hypocrite.

[Ranchoth]

@Paul in Saudi

It has been proposed. Find the (say) fifty worst blocks en bloc in the city. Bulldoze them. Tear up the streets, turn off the water and surround them in chain link. Take the money you save on streets, police, water, fire protection, and spend it to save the rest of the city.

After twenty years, sell the area to a developer. Make a bundle.

We can call it…Delta City!

Hey, at least the damn trains would run on time. And robots would kill criminals on sight. Everybody wins!

[Shirley_Ujest]

@Odinoneeye

As a long time resident of the burbs, I’ve always said that Detroit needs some kind of toursit attraction.

Every city has it’s crime/racism/violence, but most have positive things to counterbalance it and bring in the tourist money.

We don’t.

Don’t get me wrong, we have a art museum, science center and zoo that are on par with most cities, but most cities have these things that are on par with Detroit’s. There’ nothing unique to pull people in.

NYC has the Statue of LIberty while we have a big fist on Jefferson Ave.

Anyway, like I say, I live in the burbs so I didn’t vote in this election. I do work in Detroit so pay about $200 in city taxes every year. I don’t see that changing very much no matter who the mayor is.

You have made a valid point, and I just cannot see why no one wants to come and see The Fist
It could be a Mecca for Gay Tourists or something.

[crazyjoe]

@St. Urho

I’m just curious why you thought Freman Hendrix would be any better for Detroit.

A sock puppet would have been better for Detroit than Kwame kilpatrick. By wining a second election, he gets to proclain that he has a “mandate” from the people of Detroit (sound familiar?), and get his political machine further entrenched. there was a post about Marion Barry, and I mentioned Coleman Young a few posts up as well. These people only won elections because they had enough cronies in the system to keep them there for 20 years or more, along with the tendency for people to vote for the incumbent.

If he would have been knocked out this election, we could have ousted the next guy fairly easily if he was no good. Since we didn’t, he’s got a better chance of being a fixture ont he Detroit landscape for the next 20 years. The dude’s young…like mid-30s, and he’s running a whole city. That’s the sort of power you just don’t give up, and he’s young enough to stay there for the next 30 years.

[Shirley_Ujest]

Maybe we should send Kwame some crack and ho’s to keep him busy.
(I have no idea where to get crack, but I could send him a box of ho-ho’s.)

[smiling_bandit]

You have made a valid point, and I just cannot see why no one wants to come and see The Fist
It could be a Mecca for Gay Tourists or something.

Grond! Grond! Grond! Grond! Grond! Grond! Grond! Grond! Grond! Grond! Grond! Grond! Grond!

…

Sorry.

[Weirddave]

@Odinoneeye

As a long time resident of the burbs, I’ve always said that Detroit needs some kind of toursit attraction.

Every city has it’s crime/racism/violence, but most have positive things to counterbalance it and bring in the tourist money.

We don’t.

Don’t get me wrong, we have a art museum, science center and zoo that are on par with most cities, but most cities have these things that are on par with Detroit’s. There’ nothing unique to pull people in.

You just described Baltimore in the 1970s. We built Harborplace. Detroit has a waterfront, doesn’t it? Couldn’t y’all do the same thing?

[Si_Amigo]

@Weirddave

You just described Baltimore in the 1970s. We built Harborplace. Detroit has a waterfront, doesn’t it? Couldn’t y’all do the same thing?

The problem is that Windsor Canada shares the waterfront and has the advanatage of not being in Detroit or the US. You can go over there and walk in complete saftey and watch the Forth of July fireworks while people are getting shot on the Detroit side! Windsor has 18 year old drinking, legal prostitution, tax free gambling AND no violet crime to speak of.

Detroit is a shithole that likes being a shithole. That’s why they re-picked Kilpatrick.

[Kid_A_1]

@Si Amigo

The problem is that Windsor Canada shares the waterfront and has the advanatage of not being in Detroit or the US. You can go over there and walk in complete saftey and watch the Forth of July fireworks while people are getting shot on the Detroit side! Windsor has 18 year old drinking, legal prostitution, tax free gambling AND no violet crime to speak of.

Detroit is a shithole that likes being a shithole. That’s why they re-picked Kilpatrick.

We have legal prostitution? Damn it, I’ve been here for school for over 3 years and now I find this out.

And the drinking age is 19. But you can buy lottery tickets at 18.

You’ve got the other two right.