Sticking with the Detroit primary elections, there is emerging a possible fundamental change in the office of Mayor of Detroit.
Dave Bing, the former Detroit Pistons player of renown and a good, successful businessman in the area, had no problem in the primary election and is facing a perpetual candidate for Mayor, Tom Barrow, who has no chance of winning but…
Bing is an honest man that wants to do what is necessary to get Detroit back on its feet BUT the steps necessary are going to be very unpopular with the city unions. He has to lay people off, cut their wages or even privatize their department which has always been anathema for any mayoral office seeker. In fact, no mayor has ever faced down the unions and that is why Detroit is in the shape it is in.
We have had many TV News reports of city workers basically just screwing off on their jobs and also there is this monumental incompetence among the workers who are highly paid and have been for ever safe in their worthless positions.
Now I realize that not all the voters in Detroit are union members and I venture to say that a majority are not but nonetheless, they probably sympathize with those workers so what is Bing to do?
To get elected, he needs to beat this twit of a challenger that if elected would resume the standard black political machine corruption and incompetence culture. Bing or any mayor that cares about the city, absolutely needs to make those drastic changes in how the city is run if there is to be any chance of city revival BUT he needs to be re-elected mayor to make those changes; do you see the dilemma?
We can hope that Detroit voters will do the same as they did in the primary and vote with their common sense or will they succumb to the age old political culture. This should be an interesting election and I just hope Bing has big enough balls to do what is right for the city and its residents.
Knowing Bing is not in this for the long haul, i.e. he is not a politician and wants to honestly help the city as a competent business man; I hope he will just do what he knows needs to be done and hope the voters of Detroit can honestly see what he is trying to do is for their ultimate benefit.
Dave Bing, the former Detroit Pistons player of renown and a good, successful businessman in the area, had no problem in the primary election and is facing a perpetual candidate for Mayor, Tom Barrow, who has no chance of winning but…
Bing is an honest man that wants to do what is necessary to get Detroit back on its feet BUT the steps necessary are going to be very unpopular with the city unions. He has to lay people off, cut their wages or even privatize their department which has always been anathema for any mayoral office seeker. In fact, no mayor has ever faced down the unions and that is why Detroit is in the shape it is in.
We have had many TV News reports of city workers basically just screwing off on their jobs and also there is this monumental incompetence among the workers who are highly paid and have been for ever safe in their worthless positions.
Now I realize that not all the voters in Detroit are union members and I venture to say that a majority are not but nonetheless, they probably sympathize with those workers so what is Bing to do?
To get elected, he needs to beat this twit of a challenger that if elected would resume the standard black political machine corruption and incompetence culture. Bing or any mayor that cares about the city, absolutely needs to make those drastic changes in how the city is run if there is to be any chance of city revival BUT he needs to be re-elected mayor to make those changes; do you see the dilemma?
We can hope that Detroit voters will do the same as they did in the primary and vote with their common sense or will they succumb to the age old political culture. This should be an interesting election and I just hope Bing has big enough balls to do what is right for the city and its residents.
Knowing Bing is not in this for the long haul, i.e. he is not a politician and wants to honestly help the city as a competent business man; I hope he will just do what he knows needs to be done and hope the voters of Detroit can honestly see what he is trying to do is for their ultimate benefit.
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