Posted on 07/31/2007 11:26:37 AM PDT by CutePuppy
Another political family like the Fords of Tennessee and the Landrieus of Louisiana, presiding over the deterioration of their constituencies while lining their pockets!
Hey, mother and son have the other cut of Detroit, Mayor Kwame and Big Mama Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick.
Let me know how much mileage you’re getting with your Hitler analogy.
When I lived in Uptown, you had some nice high rises on the lake, while the rest of the nabe was dominated by SROs and subdivided frame houses. My 275 sq. ft. studio was in an old hotel that was built right before the nabes peak (in the 1920s) and was right around the corner from the Green Mill jazz club.
That would be the Joe Lewis Arenia.
Same can be said for my father’s old neighborhood in Newark, which is the ONLY one in said city NOT to be turned into a Detroit-like ghetto. First the Portuguese in the 1960s-80s, and now the Brazilians and Ecuadorians, have built which is at least a vibrant community, unlike the rest of Newark, where the only businesses are Chinese take-outs, check cashing shops, and the local crack dealers.
Of course, the Fords are in decline, especially with the chronically severe old lush Auntie Ophelia as their sole prominent elected official, in the State Senate (and probably the Landrieus, too — especially if we can dump Mitch as Lt Gov this year). Ironically, the winner of Junior’s seat in Memphis is an extremely far-left Jewish White Socialist (who makes Junior look like a Conservative). He may only last a single term because of the demographics. However, those wanting to run him out of office in the Black community can’t decide whether to hate him because he’s White, or because he’s a JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
Awwww...someone’s a wittle gwumpy!
They can bulldoze all they want as long as they leave Nathan’s. And the ballpark.
And the reason that I've chosen to focus on creating a nationwide movement is precisely your question. I think we ought to challenge the Detroit school board. We ought to challenge the Detroit city council. We ought to challenge the Michigan legislature. We ought to challenge the governor of Michigan.
(Sigh) Newt, our govenor is a socialist Democrat woman from Canada, and a joke. Our legislature can't agree on a lunch menu and the democrats want to inflict HUGE tax increases to pay for a $1.2 BILLION budget defecit next year. As for the Detroit city council -- their titles are synominous with failure.
Yikes! Cicero is a hell hole.
It’s a disaster. Totally delivered into the hands of the left which has ruined it and prepared it to become a warm, welcoming home for the death cult.
That is being worked on.
The Book-Cadillac Hotel is in the process of a huge restoration which includes condos as well as hotel rooms. They've reconstructed the copper zigurats on the roof and are preserving as much of the original detail as possible.
I do worry about the copper. Street value is so high there will be druggies trying to scale the building to strip it off.
Article and pictures of the restoration are here:
We pay for it with our taxes that have increased 300% in 6 years. M-Park went 1/4 billion over budget. The Cloudgate, aka the “bean”, alone was a 25 million dollar boondoggle originally budgeted @ 9 million. Wait until they go for the Olympics here. Who do you think will be paying for that? I’m moving before it happens.
Cicero isn’t a part of Chicago.
Worse. It was the democratic "leadership" in the STATE house!
Well wherever that dividing line is, I’ve been there a few times. And its a swamp.
Kwame Kilpatrick, the Detroit Mayor talks a good talk, unfortunately, as opposed to Coleman Young, one of his predessors, who was extremely good at being corrupt, Kwame is extremely bad at his corruption.
He keeps getting caught. Mostly by one TV reporter who got beaten up one too many times by the mayor’s security staff. He has pretty much devoted his career to exposing Kwame’s many problems and coverups.
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