it s a sad day today for one of america s legendary cities. detroit. for decades detroit was a boom town, the heart of an industry, a city where america made things, where families worked and lived, raised their children. the home of the american dream. but the city has fallen on tough times. debt and unemployment have skyrocketed and now republicans see detroit s crisis as an opportunity to push an extreme agenda. they cooked up a scheme for elected officials with an emergency manager who could replace emergency officials and have the ability to fire employees and sell off city assets. state republicans passed an emergency manager law in 2011 but it was rejected by the voters. the law was repealed in a
decisions that he s made concerning the budget, concerning personnel decisions, hiring, firing, appointments, nothing at all. the city council meets but we simply meet to hear citizens complaints and to really, there s nothing on our agenda. primarily we you mean to hear people vent because there s nothing that you can do. the city manager is appointed by the governor, not elected by the people, not accounted by the people, accountable to the people, yet the mayor elected by the people and members of the city council that they elected to handle their finances have no input and this city manager in pontiac has already and i m going to put this back up the city has overall labor contracts, it has sold off city assets.
let s get braililliant here. you d like the mayor to handle the city s finances, over see the police force, public forces. now, imagine the mayor s powers were taken away by the state government. puts in an emergency manager in charge of your city and that person has the power to overrule the city counsel who are locally elected. they could kill collective bargaining agreements, throw out union contracts. close or privatize entire departments and sell off city assets. that scenario is being played out in five cities in three school districts across the state of michigan. in the middle of the country. this is our infrastructure crumbling. the city of detroit might be the next to go. earlier this month, republican governor rick schneider
let s get brilliant here. you d like the mayor to handle the city s finances, over see the police force, public forces. now, imagine the mayor s powers were taken away by the state government. puts in an emergency manager in charge of your city and that person has the power to overrule the city counsel who are locally elected. they could kill collective bargaining agreements, throw out union contracts. close or privatize entire departments and sell off city assets. that scenario is being played out in five cities in three school districts across the state of michigan. in the middle of the country. this is our infrastructure crumbling. the city of detroit might be the next to go. earlier this month, republican governor rick schneider announced his intention to appoint an emergency manager to oversee detroit because i guess they didn t know what the hell
let s get brilliant here. you d like the mayor to handle the city s finances, over see the police force, public services. now, imagine the mayor s powers were taken away by the state government. puts in an emergency manager in charge of your city and that person has the power to overrule the city counsel who are locally elected. they could kill collective bargaining agreements, throw out union contracts. close or privatize entire departments and sell off city assets. that scenario is being played out in five cities in three school districts across the state of michigan. in the middle of the country. this is our infrastructure crumbling. the city of detroit might be the next to go.