  E_hemingway Member Username: E_hemingway Post Number: 1516 Registered: 11-2004 |
Who would you like to see on City Council who isn't warming a seat there currently? | ||
Jonesy Member Username: Jonesy Post Number: 538 Registered: 07-2005 |
I would like to see some of these recently( within the last year) retired auto execs/managers who grew up in the city return home and run. | ||
Crumbled_pavement Member Username: Crumbled_pavement Post Number: 685 Registered: 08-2007 |
Let me be the first to nominate (and I would collect the needed signatures myself if needed) .... C U B! | ||
Bragaboutme Member Username: Bragaboutme Post Number: 602 Registered: 02-2008 |
Is it official, Cub is in the running? | ||
Urbanoutdoors Member Username: Urbanoutdoors Post Number: 1093 Registered: 11-2005 |
CUB, Tobocman, Clarke.... | ||
Lodgedodger Member Username: Lodgedodger Post Number: 1450 Registered: 05-2008 |
Cub and Gnome have my vote. | ||
Crumbled_pavement Member Username: Crumbled_pavement Post Number: 686 Registered: 08-2007 |
If he accepts my nomination . . . | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 9408 Registered: 10-2003 |
He should change his name to Rev. Cub Conyers Cockrell Young to improve his chances. | ||
Eriedearie Member Username: Eriedearie Post Number: 3635 Registered: 08-2007 |
Run Cub, Run! | ||
English Member Username: English Post Number: 437 Registered: 10-2003 |
Is there a way to force the ward system on the folks back home? Sigh... | ||
Lodgedodger Member Username: Lodgedodger Post Number: 1454 Registered: 05-2008 |
I think the folks would like the ward system. However, City Council voted down the chance to amend the Charter and the chance to create a ward system (among other things). *hug* | ||
English Member Username: English Post Number: 440 Registered: 10-2003 |
Thanks, Lodgedodger. I really, really want Detroit to get better, and having representation from ALL of Detroit's communities is key to that. I'm a card-carrying daughter of Detroit's black middle class. But I've long criticized us for shutting out others. Where is our SW Detroit rep? Our Corktown rep? Our North End rep? Heck, I grew up in the Livernois-Davison area... how 'bout a rep for my old 'hood? I wish we could have something that's more like the aldermen in a nearby metropolis that I won't name. If there were double or triple the Council members at 1/2 or even 1/3 of the salary, I think more would get done... | ||
Bearinabox Member Username: Bearinabox Post Number: 1236 Registered: 04-2006 |
Is Gnome running too? Who is he in real life? | ||
Jams Member Username: Jams Post Number: 7730 Registered: 10-2003 |
quote: "A riddle wrapped up in an enigma?" | ||
65memories Member Username: 65memories Post Number: 453 Registered: 10-2003 |
Gary Brown | ||
Detroitplanner Member Username: Detroitplanner Post Number: 2242 Registered: 04-2006 |
Count Scary should run. | ||
Crumbled_pavement Member Username: Crumbled_pavement Post Number: 688 Registered: 08-2007 |
English, if Cub accepts my nomination he would push to amend the charter to allow wards. Cub I know you hear me calling you . . . can you hear me? can you hear me running? can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you . . . | ||
Fury13 Member Username: Fury13 Post Number: 2071 Registered: 10-2003 |
Great post, English. I've thought for a long time that Detroit needs more council members, each representing a district. Advocacy, and action. | ||
Fury13 Member Username: Fury13 Post Number: 2073 Registered: 10-2003 |
Although, having more council members means less power per council member. I think that would be a good thing, because that would make it impossible for one or two to run roughshod over the others. With 20 or 25 council members, they'd have to form coalitions. No one member would be that visible or powerful, yet each would be accountable to constituents. OK, sorry for the hijack. Gary Brown. Hansen Clarke. Glenn Oliver. | ||
Mrsjdaniels Member Username: Mrsjdaniels Post Number: 1326 Registered: 08-2005 |
how about my family friend - Joan Gist...she fared pretty well and for the life of me I can't understand why she wants to run again but I am going to support her and give her all the help she needs.' She was endorsed by the News and The Freep last time. | ||
Trainman Member Username: Trainman Post Number: 739 Registered: 04-2006 |
Bozo the Clown | ||
E_hemingway Member Username: E_hemingway Post Number: 1518 Registered: 11-2004 |
Could forumers please post some sort of informational link to the candidates they suggest? Most people probably know who Hansen Clark and Steve Tobocman are because they hold/just held public office, but I am thinking a lot of people don't know much about Joan Gist or Glenn Oliver. | ||
Crosswordgirl Member Username: Crosswordgirl Post Number: 466 Registered: 08-2008 |
trainman, the question is "who do you want to see" not "who is already there......" | ||
Gnome Member Username: Gnome Post Number: 2359 Registered: 08-2007 |
Hey. Me? No. Never. Nada. and when did I become the enigma around here? That's PlyRes' gig. Cub, should run, if for no other reason than to dip his toe in the water. | ||
Cub Member Username: Cub Post Number: 1114 Registered: 02-2007 |
When is the deadline for filing? | ||
Urbanoutdoors Member Username: Urbanoutdoors Post Number: 1096 Registered: 11-2005 |
I believe its may | ||
Urbanoutdoors Member Username: Urbanoutdoors Post Number: 1097 Registered: 11-2005 |
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pb cs.dll/article?AID=/20090123/M ETRO/901230370 May 12th to be exact! I will voulunteer to get your name out, I am sure many others would here as well. | ||
English Member Username: English Post Number: 442 Registered: 10-2003 |
Good luck to Cub and all forumers running for CoD offices... please don't let our region's history discourage you. Things are changing nationwide. People are desperate for change and they want to put GOOD people in office. If you spend the time walking the neighborhoods, knocking on doors, and getting to know people, making the personal connection? You'll win. (The Detroiters I know aren't so much xenophobic as they are against carpetbaggers.) I think sincere and hardworking candidates in the D ought to take a page from the President's book. Six years ago, who would've thought that downstate IL would vote for some dude named Obama? And three years ago, who would've thought that he'd win IN and NC? Same thing goes here, but in reverse.  I wish you well. Let us know what we can do to help you! | ||
Sumas Member Username: Sumas Post Number: 711 Registered: 01-2008 |
Hey Cub, if you do run, I will collect signatures and I'll be happy to canvas my neighborhood for you. Usually campaigns cost beau coup money but we know that grass root organizations can work. | ||
Vantanna Member Username: Vantanna Post Number: 30 Registered: 08-2007 |
Bootney Farnsworth. | ||
Fnemecek Member Username: Fnemecek Post Number: 1914 Registered: 12-2004 |
It's funny that this thread got started. Yesterday over lunch, I made a list of the smartest, hardest working and most honest people that I know who live in Detroit. These are the the people that I want to see run for the Detroit City Council. Cub, by the way, was one of them. My task over this weekend is to convince each of them to run for the Council as part of a slate. None of them have much cash behind them. However, if they combine resources, they could run a very viable campaign. | ||
Christos Member Username: Christos Post Number: 136 Registered: 12-2006 |
Tobocman, Burt Johnson, Hansen Clarke | ||
Original63 Member Username: Original63 Post Number: 478 Registered: 08-2008 |
Quote Bozo the Clown: Kwame the Clown was enough Moronica is too Much No More Celebrities | ||
Rjk Member Username: Rjk Post Number: 1183 Registered: 11-2003 |
I know that some of the others were helped along by family/name recognition, but what did Watson, Collins, Kenyatta, Jones, and Tinsley-Talabi do prior to being elected to city council? | ||
Firstandten Member Username: Firstandten Post Number: 655 Registered: 05-2006 |
Well lets see, Watson was with the NAACP, radio host community person Collins was one of the worst US house members in history Kenyatta was a community person, Wayne county commissioner Tinsley-Talabi- east side community person Jones- need help on her I'm not sure about her past political life | ||
Eastsideal Member Username: Eastsideal Post Number: 313 Registered: 10-2007 |
Brenda Jones came up through the labor unions, and had a lot of support from them. She was head of the Communication Workers Detroit local, and was involved in a lot of the black union organizations and activities in Detroit. | ||
Eastsideal Member Username: Eastsideal Post Number: 314 Registered: 10-2007 |
Barbara-Rose Collins also served a previous 2 term run on the Council, before her time in Congress. She was also a State Rep for awhile. She's always been heavily supported by the Shrine of the Black Madonna / Black Slate organization, and is an active Shrine member. | ||
Firstandten Member Username: Firstandten Post Number: 662 Registered: 05-2006 |
Eastsideal you are correct. Remember the issue with the Black slate and their endorsement for the US House when both women were members of the Shine at that time ? | ||
Lodgedodger Member Username: Lodgedodger Post Number: 1461 Registered: 05-2008 |
Gnome, you are a bit of a mystery person. In spite of that, you should run. You are smart, a clear-thinker, and can hold your own in an argument. I'd planned to run, but I need to work a couple years longer. Also, I'd like to do more community service before I run. | ||
Scooter2k7 Member Username: Scooter2k7 Post Number: 209 Registered: 10-2007 |
Anyone who is a responsible adult. A change for the better! | ||
Whittier70 Member Username: Whittier70 Post Number: 217 Registered: 02-2008 |
Tyrone Biggum is a change for the better  |
