Sunday, September 09, 2012

DETROIT CITY COUNCIL: Make gifts to us legal again...



Cannot help bashing Detroit or in this case the Detroit City Council because what they do requires bashing and maybe even eliminating the council altogether.

City government was so corrupt that members were thrown in jail and the citizens of Detroit passed a new city charter that they thought would eliminate this insidious state of corruption once and for all.

One of the charter rules banned gifts to city officials and employees so the council is placing on the November ballot a proposal that would allow the council to establish what gifts, gratuities and other honoraria officials and employees CAN receive, in effect invalidating the charter rule of NO GIFTS.

Another rule banned former city employees from lobbying or getting paid for services for one full year after their employment ended. The council now has placed a proposal on the ballot allowing former employees to enter into contracts with the city in the first year after ending their city employment. What can I say about that but that it again invalidates a charter rule?

Governor Snyder said “These amendments appear to signal a retreat from the ethical standards set by the charter, and I cannot support them” but since the governor has no power to prohibit what the council puts on the ballot, the assholes on the council went ahead and put their proposals invalidating established charter rules on the ballot.

Now you can tell me that the proposals put forth by the council are to be voted on by the people of Detroit but why in the hell are they putting proposals on the ballot that invalidate the people’s previous vote?

Because the council thinks they can get away with it since after all, this is Detroit and if they can get the pastors of Detroit to convince enough of their church members to vote for the proposals, the door to corruption will be wide open again…does this even make sense to you?

The city charter is like the state constitution and should not be monkeyed with because it then becomes the law and cannot be changed easily but only with another city vote.

The audacity and arrogance of the city council to even suggest these proposals must mean council members are setting up the rules for their own welfare because once council members are elected by districts and not at-large as they have been, many of the current members may not make it onto the council so they will be looking for gifts and employment contracts from their crony officials within the city government.





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