  Dan Member Username: Dan Post Number: 1246 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 70.225.216.57 |
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs .dll/article?AID=/20060727/NEW S99/60727002 Detroit City Council President Maryann Mahaffey dies July 27, 2006 Email this Print this BY BEN SCHMITT FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER Former Detroit City Council President, Maryann Mahaffey has died. She died around 5:19 a.m. Thursday morning at Henry Ford Hospital, Channel 4 reported on its web site. The 81-year-old had been battling Leukemia. | ||
Kathleen Member Username: Kathleen Post Number: 1456 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.14.122.57 |
I had no sooner finished reading Desiree Cooper's profile of Maryann Mahaffey entitled "A dynamic duo's biggest battle: Detroit's power couple discover new roles and inspiration" in this morning's Free Press (http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs .dll/article?AID=/20060727/NEW S01/607270314/1122) when I heard the news reported on Channel 4 (http://www.clickondetroit.com/ news/9583328/detail.html). Thank you for your years of service to our city. R.I.P. Mary Ann Mahaffey. | ||
Itsjeff Member Username: Itsjeff Post Number: 6450 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 208.27.111.125 |
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick visited the hospital early this morning with City Councilwoman JoAnn Watson, said Kilpatrick spokesman James Canning. Well there's a final vision to take to the grave... RIP, Maryann. I'll always remember her shaking hands at Menjo's during her campaigns in the 1980s. | ||
Danny Member Username: Danny Post Number: 4660 Registered: 02-2004 Posted From: 141.217.174.229 |
Adieu Maryann, THE GHETTOMAN and the STREET PROPHETS salute you. Thanks for your service in Detroit. | ||
Zulu_warrior Member Username: Zulu_warrior Post Number: 2954 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.251.27.41 |
Bayete, Maryann Mahaffey, for your years of love to this community. We pray the inkolekta for you (The following is the zulu prayer for the prayers of the conditions of all people, a prayer that would be of kind to Maryann) IKOLEKTA, NOMA UMTANDAZO WOKUTANDAZELA ABANTU BONKE ABANJANI NABANJANI, ONGENZIWA INXA LINGAMISELWE UKWENZIWA ILITANY. NKULUNKULU, mEnzi nomLondolozi wabantu bonke; Siyazitoba sitandazela izinhlobo zonke zabantu abanjani nabanjani, ukuba kutandeke kuwe ukuba indhlela yako yaziwe emhlabeni, ukusindisa kwako kwaziwe ezizweni zonke. Ikakulu sicela ukuba iChurch eliKatolika libe nokuma okuhle, lihholwe libuswe uMoya wako, ukuze kuti bonke abavumayo beti bang'amaKristiane bahholelwe endhleleni yeqiniso, baqokotele kulo uKolo benhliziyo'nye, bahlanganiswe ngasibopo sinye sokutula, bahambe ngokulunga. Ukupela, Baba, sicela ukuba ubapate ngomusa bonke abahlupekileyo benosizi. enhliziyweni, noma emzimbeni, noma ekumeni kwabo, (ikakulu bona abacela ukuba sibatandazele); ukuba kutandeke kuwe ukubaduduza nokubasiza njengokuswela kwabo, babekezele ekuhlupekeni kwabo, bapume kahle ezinsizini zabo zonke. Sicela loko ngaye uJesu Kristu. Amen. | ||
Detroitplanner Member Username: Detroitplanner Post Number: 56 Registered: 04-2006 Posted From: 63.85.13.248 |
wow Zulu looks a lot like Polish! Lets hope for more Maryanne's | ||
1953 Member Username: 1953 Post Number: 920 Registered: 12-2004 Posted From: 209.104.146.146 |
Creepy...today's article in the freep...ah! Best wishes to her family! | ||
Harmonie Member Username: Harmonie Post Number: 601 Registered: 08-2004 Posted From: 198.109.32.15 |
She was a kind, intelligent and gutsy woman. May we all aspire to have those qualities. She will be dearly missed. | ||
Viziondetroit Member Username: Viziondetroit Post Number: 617 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 65.42.23.2 |
RIP | ||
Oldredfordette Member Username: Oldredfordette Post Number: 178 Registered: 02-2004 Posted From: 151.202.105.90 |
I am so sorry. What a wonderful woman. My hero. | ||
Gary Member Username: Gary Post Number: 167 Registered: 02-2004 Posted From: 66.73.238.3 |
Maryann Mahaffey was one of the good ones and we need more like her in city government. She will be missed. | ||
Royce Member Username: Royce Post Number: 1741 Registered: 07-2004 Posted From: 69.209.152.173 |
She embodied what a true Detroiter is all about. Thanks, Maryann Mahaffey, for showing us that the fight for justice and fairness for all Detroit citizens is enternal. | ||
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell Post Number: 2808 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.3.252.26 |
RIP little big woman! Much love.  Maryann Mahaffey, standing before the Federal Building on Michigan Av on October 8, 2002, addresses an anti-war demonstration before the start of war in Iraq. | ||
Itsjeff Member Username: Itsjeff Post Number: 6457 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 208.27.111.125 |
I wrote this the last full year of Maryann's counsel presidency. https://www.atdetroit.net/forum/mes sages/23585/34566.html | ||
Oldredfordette Member Username: Oldredfordette Post Number: 179 Registered: 02-2004 Posted From: 151.202.107.44 |
oh itsJeff. I was getting teary eyed reading till I read yours. Now I have tears streaming down my face. Maryann liked a stiff drink and a good laugh. I'll go get my drink now. | ||
Danny Member Username: Danny Post Number: 4674 Registered: 02-2004 Posted From: 141.217.174.229 |
I like this meeting. COUNCIL PRESIDENT MAHAFFEY: The Clerk will call the roll. CLERK: Member Mahaffey? MEMBER MAHAFFEY: Aye. CLERK: Member Cockrel the Witch? MEMBER COCKREL: Aye and I wish everyone would stop calling me that. CLERK: Member Cockrel “Junior?” MEMBER COCKREL JR: Present, and stop making quotation marks with your fingers when saying, “junior.” MEMBER BATES: I wish we could, “Junior.” MEMBER MAHAFFEY: Knock it off. Continue with the roll call. CLERK: Member McPhail? MEMBER MCPHAIL: Present. CLERK: Member Collins? MEMBER COLLINS: Pwent! CLERK: I’m sorry? MEMBER COLLINS: Sorry. That’s “present” through a cannoli shell. CLERK: Member Bates? MEMBER BATES: Right here, Sugar. CLERK: Member Watson? WATSON: Oh, yes, God is Good! MEMBER MAHAFFEY: A quorum being present, I gavel this session of Council to order. MEMBER BATES: Madam President, I request a fifteen minute break. MEMBER MAHAFFEY: Without objection, council is adjourned for 30 minutes. (60 minutes later) MEMBER MAHAFFEY: Council is now in session. I’d like to address the homeless situation for a moment. MEMBER TINSLEY-TALABI: Excuse me, Madam President? MEMBER MAHAFFEY: Yes, Member Tinplate-Salami? MEMBER TINSLEY-TALABI: Before we address your homeless thing, my inkpen has run dry. This is the second time this has happened this year. Therefore, I’d like to adjourn your issue for two weeks so that we can subpoena the Mayor’s Director of Procurement to find out if the City is fully funding our pen supply requests. MEMBER COLLINS: Further to Member Tandoori-Wahabi’s request, I also suggest that RAD conduct an expensive, verbose, yet incomprehensible study on the topic. MEMBER MCPHAIL: Without objection, the motion will be carried. MEMBER MAHAFFEY: Er, ah, point of order, Member McPhail. MEMBER MCPHAIL: Whut? MEMBER MAHAFFEY: Two things: One, there’s no motion present, two… well… I forgot already. Wait. Oh, yeah. I’m President of this body and I’ll announce passed motions if you don’t mind. MEMBER MCPHAIL: My apologies, Madam President. I thought I was chairing today. MEMBER MAHAFFEY: No, we distributed a memo saying how the chair rotation works. Each member will chair the meeting if the first letter of his or her last name matches the first letter of the day of the week. Today is Monday, my name is “Mahaffey,” so I’m chairing. MEMBER WATSON: Thank you, Jesus. MEMBER COCKREL: I have a walk-on. Can we discuss places to get really awful pantsuits? I’ve about worn out this Pagliacci costume. MEMBER COLLINS: I have a place that I use for all my formal evening tents. I’ll get you the name later. MEMBER BATES: That reminds me. One of my staffers wants to go on a “fact-finding mission.” Do any of the female members know a good hair stylist? MEMBER COLLINS: No. MEMBER COCKREL: No. MEMBER MCPHAIL:No. MEMBER WATSON: No. MEMBER MAHAFFEY: No. MEMBER TINSLEY-TALABI: Lord, no. MEMBER MAHAFFEY: Colleagues, if I may, I’d like to spend a few minutes talking about the plight of the homeless. MEMBER COLLINS: Madam President, while you do that, I’d like to shuffle papers furiously next to my microphone for a while so that no one can hear us. MEMBER MAHAFFEY: Without objection. Anyway, colleagues, I think it’s important that this body address the homeless situation. As you know, with Bush’s illegal incursion into the sovereign nation of Falluja, we’re seeing reports of several Shiites left homeless. Having solved all of our own problems here in Detroit, I think it’s important that this body draft a resolution denouncing Bush’s invasion into Iraq using non-union labor. Bush must know that he simply cannot invade Falluja and expect the entire nation to blindly follow him like sheep. Do you agree? MEMBER COLLINS: Yes MEMBER BATES: Yes. MEMBER COCKREL: Yes. MEMBER MCPHAIL: Yes. MEMBER COCKREL JR: Yes. MEMBER WATSON: Yes. MEMBER TINSLEY-TALABI: Baa. Er, I mean… yes? MEMBER WATSON: Madam President, I’m sure I speak for Jesus when I say that I support your proposed resolution. However, He has spoken to my heart and commands me to put a hold on City Contract No. 13854021 without comment. Praise him. MEMBER MAHAFFEY: Very well. What’s next? MEMBER COLLINS: Colleagues, I’d like to hear some testimony from residents of the Bethune Projects in Highland Park who say that the non-union contract employees replacing their roof used disrespectful language to some of the elderly residents there. MEMBER COCKREL: Uh, if they’re in Highland Park, may I ask how this is a concern of this Body? MEMBER WATSON: I agree that we have no jurisdiction in this matter. Therefore, I recommend that we listen to no more than ten hours of testimony, then move on to other issues with which we have no input. Ain't God good. MEMBER MAHAFFEY: That's an excellent suggestion. MEMBER BATES: Madam President, I see that we have room full of people ready to present testimony, the quorum is present and we are ready to go. I request a 30 minute break. PRESIDENT MAHAFFEY: Without objection, council is adjourned until tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. (session ends) That's why I called the it Detroit City "CLOWNSIL" (Message edited by danny on July 27, 2006) | ||
Nellonfury Member Username: Nellonfury Post Number: 173 Registered: 03-2005 Posted From: 68.43.156.135 |
R.I.P Maryann Mahaffey | ||
Mrsjdaniels Member Username: Mrsjdaniels Post Number: 198 Registered: 08-2005 Posted From: 141.217.46.39 |
danny taht was hilarious | ||
Motorcitymayor2026 Member Username: Motorcitymayor2026 Post Number: 1066 Registered: 10-2005 Posted From: 24.231.189.137 |
Maryann, we will miss you. Thank you for all of your hard work and lasting impressions of the years. May you rest in peace. | ||
Rusty Member Username: Rusty Post Number: 410 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 71.194.184.8 |
i think they should rename the Lodge after her..........and possibly the airport too. | ||
Bindetroit Member Username: Bindetroit Post Number: 1256 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.246.117.31 |
Thank you Maryann. You leave this world a better place for your having been here. | ||
Detroitej72 Member Username: Detroitej72 Post Number: 122 Registered: 05-2006 Posted From: 66.184.3.44 |
RIP to a GREAT LOVER of Detroit. She will be missed. God Bless you Maryann. | ||
Ilovedetroit Member Username: Ilovedetroit Post Number: 2383 Registered: 02-2005 Posted From: 69.246.54.234 |
If only the world had a few million more like her it would be a much better place! RIP Maryann you will be missed by a lot of people. And thank you for all the contributions you made to the city and the people who live here. |
