{"id":76,"date":"2009-02-24T11:41:48","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T16:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/?p=76"},"modified":"2009-02-24T11:41:48","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T16:41:48","slug":"electing-a-mayor%e2%80%a6-detroit-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"Electing a Mayor\u2026 Detroit Style!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit\u2019s self proclaimed hip-hop mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, left office on September 18th, 2008.\u00a0 \u201cLeft office\u201d as loosely defined as being led across the street in hand cuffs to his new office behind bars.\u00a0 Shortly before this happened, Detroit\u2019s deputy mayor, Anthony Adams, stepped down from his office.\u00a0 \u201cStepped down\u201d can similarly be defined as taking the position as director of the Detroit Water Dept. for a $90,000 a year pay <strong>increase<\/strong>.\u00a0 Evidently, no one saw the need to actually fill Mr. Adamas\u2019 former position, leaving the question of, \u201cErm\u2026 exactly who\u2019s in charge around here?\u201d unanswered.<\/p>\n<p>So what\u2019s a city to do?<\/p>\n<p>Detroit has so little money that we\u2019re selling bridges to Canada.\u00a0 Seriously\u2026 that was our bright idea to balance the budget.\u00a0 No longer able to afford Lincoln Navigators for Kwame\u2019s entire family and employ his contingent of umpteen dozen bodyguards working 80+ hours of overtime every week, Detroit figured it\u2019d be a great idea to just sell our bridge to those kooky Canadian neighbors of ours.\u00a0 Clearly, this would solve our budget crisis for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<p>There was little over a year until Kwame\u2019s pervious term was up and all we needed was someone to hold down the fort until the good citizens of D-Town could elect a new thief to steal their money.\u00a0 Instead, they decided to hold what amounts to 4 separate elections at approximately $3 million a pop.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, the president of Detroit\u2019s City Council, was promoted to serve as Mayor.\u00a0 After all, it\u2019s a big city and big cities need mayors.\u00a0 But instead of just letting him serve out the year, for some reason Detroit needed to have a special election\u2026 in May\u2026 to elect a mayor <strong>for 5 months<\/strong>!\u00a0 And of course, what\u2019s a special election without a pre-special election to elect the candidates for the special election?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, let\u2019s hold one of those.<\/p>\n<p>In recent news, Detroiters care so much about the situation that <a href=\"http:\/\/detroit.about.com\/od\/governmentpolitics\/a\/Special_electio.htm\" target=\"_blank\">about 10% of the registered voters will actually participate in this pre-special election election<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit\u2019s self proclaimed hip-hop mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, left office on September 18th, 2008.\u00a0 \u201cLeft office\u201d as loosely defined as being led across the street in hand cuffs to his new office behind bars.\u00a0 Shortly before this happened, Detroit\u2019s deputy mayor, Anthony Adams, stepped down from his office.\u00a0 \u201cStepped down\u201d can similarly be defined as taking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[49,56,57],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandon-all-hope","tag-detroit","tag-elections","tag-kwame-kilpatrick"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}