My Civic Duty

I did my duty today and voted. We are electing a new Mayor for the City of Detroit as per City Charter requirement. Today is the primary; the top two vote getters face off in a general election in May. This is for filling out the ousted Mayor Kilpatrick's second term. Then we have another primary in August followed by a general election to select a mayor for a full four year term.

Stupid? Yep, but in the world of government, stupid is nothing new.

Primadonna Monica

With Kwame Kilpatrick soon to be gone and Ken Cockrell, Jr. lined up to become mayor of Detroit, things should be looking up. Then comes the realization that Monica Conyers becomes president of our City Council, and optimism wanes.

Yes, the Monica Conyers who had the police called into a problem of some bizarre sort in Denver at the Democratic National Convention. The same primadonna Monica who, in a fit if rage, called Ken Cockrell 'Shrek', yet demands folks respect her. The same Monica Conyers married to that paragon of socialism, John Conyers. What did she do now?

She greeted the press outside of her office yesterday by saying, "You guys are evil."

Well, well. There's hope for her after all.