Appointed

A lawyer from Washington is coming to Detroit to rescue its finances. Kevyn Orr was the same lawyer who helped rescue Chrysler a few years ago.

Detroit still doesn't think this is needed.

Some of Detroit's Lansing delegation said they felt the city should have been given more time to correct the fiscal problems, instead of having an EM appointed.

“The council presented a convincing and compelling case to continue the consent agreement. I feel they didn’t receive a fair hearing and due process. The city of Detroit and its citizens deserve the opportunity to continue on that path without the interference from an emergency manager,” said State Rep. Thomas Stallworth, D-Detroit.

“In the minds of Detroiters, they feel like an emergency manager is going to come in and fix their quality of life and nothing could be further from the truth. An emergency manager’s job is to fix the spread sheets. And that doesn’t deal with crime or emergency response times, abandoned homes and blight or that my trash is getting picked up at 11:30 last night. How is an emergency manager going to fix those issues," said state Rep. Harvey Santana, D-Detroit.

Well, if a city is broke,  you can't hire police to deal with crime. You can't hire ambulance drivers. You can't demolish abandoned homes. You can't pick up trash. Without money, you can't do anything. Sorry, that's the reality. Wake up.