foreclosure. we ve been saying this all along. we don t need financial stability, we need economic recovery. there s no connection between throwing democracy out and fixing the financial crisis. this is bad public policy. who drew this play? what s going on. in egypt, it was pharoah and the south slave masters and overseers. in michigan, it s emergency dictators. what kind of public policy says we continue to cut cut police, cut fire, cut city workers and somehow we ll stabilize the city and people will want to move back into it. is the bad public policy at its best. reverend david bullock. pastor of highland park and president of that city s naacp and rainbow/push coalition. i understand this not going on the ballot is likely to go into the courts. i have a feeling we ll talk to you about it as it unfolds. thank you. we will litigate and agitate and demonstrate, this is not the last you will see of the fight for democracy in michigan. we re not giving up. thank you, sir. we
manufacturing jobs. if 50,000 or 100,000 come back, you ve still got a minus and you still have to deal with the 90,000 vacant lots and vacant homes in the city of detroit, insurance red lining and foreclosure. we ve been saying this all along. we don t need financial stability, we need economic recovery. there s no connection between throwing democracy out and fixing the financial crisis. this is bad public policy. who drew this play? what s going on. in egypt, it was pharoah and the south slave masters and overseers. in michigan, it s emergency dictators. what kind of public policy says we continue to cut cut police, cut fire, cut city workers and somehow we ll stabilize the city and people will want to move back into it. is the bad public policy at its best. reverend david bullock. pastor of highland park and president of that city s naacp and rainbow/push coalition.
along. we don t need financial stability, we need economic recovery. there s no connection between throwing democracy out and fixing the financial crisis. this is bad public policy. who drew this play? what s going on. in egypt, it was pharoah and the south slave masters and overseers. in michigan, it s emergency dictators. what kind of public policy says we continue to cut cut police, cut fire, cut city workers and somehow we ll stabilize the city and people will want to move back into it. is the bad public policy at its best. reverend david bullock. pastor of highland park and president of that city s naacp and rainbow/push coalition. i understand this not going on the ballot is likely to go into the courts. i have a feeling we ll talk to you about it as it unfolds. thank you.
show tonight. it was so good to see you in detroit. the greatest threat to democracy in america is found in michigan. and they are michigan s emergency dictators. i mean managers. while we were worried about wisconsin and worried about laws that would prohibit people from voting in georgia, in michigan we have voted, and governor snyder has made our vote null and void. if detroit gets an emergency manager, you have benton harbor, pontiac, flint, e-course, and then detroit, by roughly 40% of the african-americans who live in the state of michigan will be under emergency management. this is not what democracy looks like. this is not what america looks like. public act 4 is bad for democracy. this is a government takeover. what do you think? it is. it s a state takeover of school districts. it s a state takeover of cities. i mean, remember now, we voted in detroit for a mayor.
we voted in detroit for city council. in benton harbor they voted for a mayor. they voted for city commissioners. and so then the state can come in and appoint one man or one woman to unilaterally make decisions about collective bargaining agreements, make decisions about selling city assets. the people have no voice? their vote does not count in the city of pontiac? pastor, i just find this so hard to believe, that a governor has the power now to appoint somebody who has nothing to do with the city to come in for $180,000 a year, i might add, and start making all the decisions with the citizens having no say whatsoever. do i have that correct? you have that right. ed, you find it hard to believe, we thought that the enemy of democracy was in egypt. it turns out that the enemy of democracy is in michigan. michigan is the new mississippi, where you have a governor who puts emergency dictators over cities and school districts and unilaterally makes our voices and our vote null and vo