  Quinn Member Username: Quinn Post Number: 608 Registered: 01-2005 Posted From: 68.42.170.20 |
So what say everyone now? I'm sure there are bruised feelings and egos...let me guess...predictions of doom and gloom from the hendrix people? Well too bad. Maybe you (hendrix people) shouldn't have been so damn cocky and confident. -Quinn | ||
Quinn Member Username: Quinn Post Number: 609 Registered: 01-2005 Posted From: 68.42.170.20 |
I like the AP's take: "DETROIT (AP) - Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick overcame a scandal-plagued first term to fend off a challenge from a career bureaucrat." Freman reduced to what he truly is. | ||
Gravitymachine Member Username: Gravitymachine Post Number: 607 Registered: 05-2005 Posted From: 198.208.159.18 |
goddamnit. | ||
Merchantgander Member Username: Merchantgander Post Number: 1234 Registered: 01-2005 Posted From: 150.198.150.245 |
What do I say now, I was right I predicted KK would win 52% to 48% percentage might not be right but called the winner. I have been saying it since the beginning of the election that KK would win. Personally I believe things could be much worse for Detroit McPhail could be mayor.  | ||
Genesyxx Member Username: Genesyxx Post Number: 305 Registered: 02-2004 Posted From: 209.69.165.10 |
RE: Title - let us never say those words again. | ||
Harmonie Member Username: Harmonie Post Number: 485 Registered: 08-2004 Posted From: 198.109.32.15 |
Canada anyone? | ||
Fury13 Member Username: Fury13 Post Number: 713 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.14.122.204 |
Detroit voters have historically shown a willingness to return the incumbent to office. It takes MAJOR screw-ups by an incumbent to not win re-election, and even scandal can be surmounted -- as we have seen. Unless Mr. Kilpatrick REALLY drops the ball in his second term (which he probably won't... he's probably learned his most important political lesson), I think you're looking at 20 years (maybe more) of Mayor Kilpatrick, a la Mayor Young... or, as many years as the mayor wants until he decides to run for higher office. | ||
Maxpraxis Member Username: Maxpraxis Post Number: 661 Registered: 01-2004 Posted From: 68.248.92.132 |
i'm sick of this city for many reasons. this may be the final straw. we can't until next year, but i'm planning on moving my family, hopefully out of state. i tried, but i just don't have the energy anymore... | ||
Treez4brkfst Member Username: Treez4brkfst Post Number: 68 Registered: 06-2004 Posted From: 68.21.61.1 |
C'ya. | ||
Fury13 Member Username: Fury13 Post Number: 714 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.14.122.204 |
I know quite a few people who vowed that they'd move out of Detroit if Kilpatrick was re-elected. We'll see if they make good on their promises. Will the city dip below 800,000 by the 2010 census? I wonder. | ||
Harmonie Member Username: Harmonie Post Number: 486 Registered: 08-2004 Posted From: 198.109.32.15 |
I am kind of numb about this outcome. I am not sure if its because I am in shock, and it hasn't really hit me yet, or if after last year's election I have so little faith in American Voters that nothing surprises me anymore? Either way this sucks big time! | ||
Super_d Member Username: Super_d Post Number: 310 Registered: 08-2005 Posted From: 69.246.107.67 |
The people of Detroit have spoken__ And anyone who disagrees, can get tha' hell cross' 8mile. super d(motordetroit) | ||
Danny Member Username: Danny Post Number: 3429 Registered: 02-2004 Posted From: 141.217.174.224 |
RECOUNT RECOUNT!!!! There were some dead voters in the absentee ballots! | ||
Ilovedetroit Member Username: Ilovedetroit Post Number: 1594 Registered: 02-2005 Posted From: 63.149.5.130 |
Danny - You are truly a mess. Jackie Currie was supporting Hendrix with her loss it is all over for both of them. The ballots were fair and so was the election. | ||
Dan Member Username: Dan Post Number: 1146 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.47.194.247 |
damn | ||
Jonesy Member Username: Jonesy Post Number: 157 Registered: 07-2005 Posted From: 68.249.237.173 |
Fury13- Detroit may be below 700,000. Check out this article. http://www.freep.com/news/poli tics/mayor-bar19e_20051109.htm | ||
Fury13 Member Username: Fury13 Post Number: 720 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.14.122.204 |
It will interesting to see what the Kilpatrick administration will do to try to reverse the dwindling population and tax base, while maintaining the spread-out infrastructure of a city set up to serve a population of 2 million. Seems like the goal should be to attract new residents, not drive them away. |
