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Sleep deprivation, mixed emotions and an open(ish) threadBy Nick, Section News
Talk about your mixed emotions. On the one hand, the Silver Line nonsense failed here in Grand Rapids, sparing taxpayers well over one-hundred million dollars for another empty bus line. Which is awesome. Props to Grand Rapidians for getting one right.
But on the other hand, the Wings got robbed last night. Robbed. I know, as I sit in front of the television at 1AM when any of my teams are out west, that I'm going to regret it in the morning but when they actually win it's a great feeling. A great, currently absent feeling. A premature whistle? Are you serious? Oh well. It isn't like these are the Stanley Cup Playoffs or anything. Besides, good times are back in the D again in spite of NHL referees, after voters hit the polls and elected a brand spanking new mayor. The Detroit News reports that Dave Bing will be the guy steering the Motor City into the future.
Cockrel, who led in the polls, lost to a first-time politician despite the backing of nearly every powerful union in the city and matching Bing in fundraising in a race that cost more than $2 million. He thanked his staff at a banquet hall in southwest Detroit, pledged his support to Bing and conceded at 11:30 p.m.
"You have not seen the last of me," Cockrel said.
He challenged Bing, who moved last fall from Franklin for the race, to get to know the city.
"Hang out with the brothers in front of the liquor store, drinking 40s out of paper bags. .. Get to know that. Get to understand and know the people you'll be representing." Or, you know... don't. I'd actually feel a heck of a lot better about the future of Michigan's biggest city if the Mayor weren't on the street drinking 40s out of paper bags. Read on...
Besides, do you know how many ounces of Schlitz Malt Liquor Bing would have to pound to generate enough bottle deposit revenue to save the city or even her school system from crippling deficits? Then again, that may be just the kind of creative thinking we need to solve the broader statewide budget crisis without raising taxes on everyone else.
I don't mean to be a party pooper, but the politicians in Lansing are going to be asking for more. Soon. The Ivory Tower this morning brings up the jack ass in the room, pointing out the growing buzz in and around the state Capitol about the possibility of plugging the state's budget holes by raising taxes by billions of dollars... again.
That's usually code for: We're not collecting enough money taxing the stuff we tax now, so we need to tax something else. If the Granholm-Cherry administration's Executive Order budget cuts were any indication yesterday, and they were, the Democrats are in the process of preparing the public for just that sort of approach. Protect the bureaucracy and the status quo while scaring the public to death by taking police and fire fighters off the street before anyone else. That'll teach us to prefer jobs and expansion to bloated governments and bureaucratic fat cats. Torn between being furious with the Democrats for going so irresponsibly to the same old card time after time or laughing at the absurdity of it all. Like I said... mixed emotions this morning. At least the Tigers won. What's on YOUR mind?
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