Residents wonder if Flint Township needs new brand

Click on Detroit/WDIV ^ | 5-6-2012

[Darren McCarty]

West Point so they can be like Eastpointe? From what little time I've been in "the township" as it's referred to by locals, Eastpointe is a rather apt comparison. That's not a compliment.

[GeronL]

Changing the name will fix everything! lol

[pieceofthepuzzle]

Never been to Flint, but when I hear that name I automatically think of Mark Farner and Grand Funk Railroad.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Michael Moore is a proud native son of Flint. Has he weighed in on this????????

[Darren McCarty]

Great band. Son, Don't let em take your gun

[Darren McCarty]

Moore wasn't from Flint. He was from the much more middle to upper middle class Davison.

He now lived in a mansion on Torch Lake.

[bigbob]

a steaming pile, by any other name...

[Darren McCarty]

lives, not lived.

[fudimo]

Micheal Moore lived in a town near Flint. It is a somewhat upscale town. They do not like their hometown boy.

http://arborupdate.com/article/590/davison-high-school-snubs-moore-salts-earth

[Dilbert San Diego]

My mistake. I thought he said he was from Flint. I think he has talked of Flint, and how Republican policies have destroyed it, or some such liberal pablum.

I always wonder what liberals think about places such as Flint, Detroit, Camden, East St. Louis, Newark, et. al. These places have been run by liberal Democrats for generations. Yet these places are some of the most God forsaken places in America. If liberal Democrat policies were the answer to the problems of these places, wouldn’t they be glittering jewels of prosperity and high qualities of life?????

[Tupelo]

Mark Farner and Grand Funk Railroad? And I sure don't think of asshats like michael moore.
Not me. When I think of Flint, I think of Bart Markel and Jay Springsteen and others of the Michigan Mafia in the 60s & 70s. Talent, nerve and skills that only the best of the best have. Damn I miss them today.

[cripplecreek]

Renaming Flint should be a real fun FReeper game.

[Paladin2]

Call it Suburban (after all they build plenty of those in Flint over the years).

[Paladin2]

MM seems to have started out in the media while working at the Flint GM Truck and Bus Assembly Plant.

[Gay State Conservative]

They could rename it Lahore.

[exnavy]

They were actually from Swartz Creek, southwest of Flint, They graduated High school a few years ahead of me.

[exnavy]

WOW I haven’t heard those names in a long time.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

“Bart Markel and Jay Springsteen”

Looked em up.. I agree - very talented.

[Yossarian]

They were actually from Swartz Creek, southwest of Flint, They graduated High school a few years ahead of me.

I could have sworn the scum was from Davison. (Both my long-term memory and Wikipedia back this up.)

I distinctly remember, growing up in next-door Goodrich, an odious smell coming from due north....

[Yossarian]

I'm so sorry! I was so keyed in to Michael Moore (discussed the post after yours) that I didn't see you were talking about GFR!!!

(I'm hanging my Flintoid head in shame.)