City of Detroit Might Be Dissolved

hotballa · Nov 29, 2012

You know what happens next.

http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2012/11/28/state-senator-proposes-dissolving-city-of-detroit/

LANSING (CBS Detroit) - It would no doubt be controversial, but the idea of dissolving the fiscally struggling city of Detroit and absorbing it into Wayne County is being tossed around in Lansing.

WWJ Lansing Bureau Chief Tim Skubick reports some state Republicans are talking about giving the city the option to vote itself into bankruptcy. And mid-Michigan Senator Rick Jones said all options should be considered — including dissolving the city.

“If we have to, that is one idea we have to look at. We really have to look at everything that is on the table,” Jones said. “Again, if this goes to federal bankruptcy, every employee down there will suffer, the city will suffer and the vultures will come in and take the jewels of Detroit and they will be gone.”

Local consultant Tom Watkins has proposed this in the past, but the idea has never played well among Detroiters.

In a live interview on WWJ Newsradio 950 Wednesday morning, Gov. Rick Snyder said he wouldn’t count anything out.

“Detroit needs to solve their problems, but they need support and we’ve been very supportive partners, I believe, in terms of offering different ideas and thoughts. And I just encourage them to work harder about working better together,” Snyder said.

Talking to Talk Radio 1270 host Charlie Langton, Detroit’s ex-communications chief Karen Dumas said she would not support such a plan.

“No, I don’t think that dissolution is the solution for the city of Detroit; I don’t,” said Dumas. “I think people … with every step we get more and more fearful … and maybe at some point that’s going to make everybody wake up and realize that we need to stop playing politics and come up with a solution for progress. “I don’t know at what point that’s going to happen. “

Detroit Political Consultant Skip Mongo said the answer to Detroit’s fiscal crisis will come with fresh faces in City Council chambers and the Mayor’s office.

“We move forward and we start looking for new leadership, and we don’t make the mistake that we made before — we certainty don’t look around and outsource the mayor’s office,” Mongo said.

Mongo, who believes Detroit Mayor Dave Bing was a poor choice to begin, said Bing doesn’t a chance if he opts to run for re-election.

“Anything short of a tidal wave and Mayor Bing getting out with his boots on, or doin’ a [New Jersey Gov.] Chris Christie, no — he can’t win,” Mongo said. ”I don’t think Mayor Bing could beat me and I’ve never run for anything in my life. Honestly, no. He should leave.”

Meantime, the Bing administration continues to battle with council members over a deal to handle the city’s reform plan.

Bing said the council’s rejection last week of a contract with law firm Miller Canfield means the city missed a deadline to draw down $10 million Detroit needs to stay afloat and endangers a $20 million release in December. Bing called it a huge setback for the financial recovery of Detroit, adding that unpaid furlough days are on the way for city workers if this isn’t worked out.
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percicles · Nov 29, 2012

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B-Bob · Nov 29, 2012

Just merge with the no electricity thread pls.

Classic · Nov 29, 2012

better yet, merge with the 'build a zombie theme park in detroit' thread

Yonkers · Nov 29, 2012

hotballa said: ↑

Mongo said. ”I don’t think Mayor Bing could beat me and I’ve never run for anything in my life. Honestly, no. He should leave.”
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Haymitch · Nov 29, 2012

vultures will come in and take the jewels of Detroit and they will be gone
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Jewels of Detroit? LOL

TheRealist137 · Nov 29, 2012

Does that mean their sports teams also get dissolved. If so, we should sign Calvin Johnson and form the Johnson and Johnson connection.

BigBird · Nov 29, 2012

So...the Auburn Hills Pistons?

pippendagimp · Nov 29, 2012

put your hands up for wayne.....i love this county

TreeRollins · Nov 29, 2012

Sounds like what they have in Miami.

emjohn · Nov 29, 2012

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41810267/ns/us_news-life/#.ULfCduRi4WY

Detroit is such a mess. They can't keep businesses or residents inside the city because it's such a toxic place to live. Cesspool tax dollars don't cover the city overhead.

By far the worst city I've ever had to stay in.

mylilpony · Nov 29, 2012

emjohn said: ↑

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41810267/ns/us_news-life/#.ULfCduRi4WY

Detroit is such a mess. They can't keep businesses or residents inside the city because it's such a toxic place to live. Cesspool tax dollars don't cover the city overhead.

By far the worst city I've ever had to stay in.
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i heard they can't keep power to all of their traffic lights.

hotballa · Nov 29, 2012

and yet they keep electing the same people. You figure at some point, someone needs to look in the mirror and be like "you know what, this ain't working"

A_3PO · Nov 29, 2012

Haymitch said: ↑

Jewels of Detroit? LOL
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Must have meant vultures will come in and rob the jewelry stores of Detroit. That's been happening for years already.

vinsensual · Nov 29, 2012

This is what happens when the Lions make the playoffs. Cities disappear like Atlantis.

sugrlndkid · Nov 29, 2012

The Madden curse lives on......this time an entire city disappears

Dairy Ashford · Nov 29, 2012

emjohn said: ↑

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41810267/ns/us_news-life/#.ULfCduRi4WY

Detroit is such a mess. They can't keep businesses or residents inside the city because it's such a toxic place to live. Cesspool tax dollars don't cover the city overhead.

By far the worst city I've ever had to stay in.
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Byproduct of decades of deliberate housing segregation and mismanagement of the most commercially and technologically dynamic industry ever. How the IT, alternative energy, shipping, advertising and aerospace industries weren't founded all in the hometown of mass production, motorized transport and the modern corporation is just baffling.

Deckard · Nov 29, 2012

So will it turn into an oily swamp, or what? Is the EPA going to make sure it dissolves without doing too much damage to the environment? Golly, I hope so.

TheresTheDagger · Nov 30, 2012

The Wayne County Pistons?

Raven · Nov 30, 2012

People won't live in a dangerous area if they have any other option, so the only people left are the poor, uneducated, and disenfranchised.

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