Kind of a big deal: Detroit elects first white mayor in 40 years.

SheHateMe

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I don't have much to type other than "He Won".

The news covers everything else that's important.


DETROIT -
A former medical center chief defeated a county sheriff to become the next mayor of financially troubled Detroit, though the job holds little power while the city is being run by a state-appointed emergency manager.

Unofficial returns showed Mike Duggan defeating Wayne County Sheriff Benny Napoleon 55 percent to 45 percent. Napoleon conceded defeat late Tuesday in a race where he was outspent by Duggan by about 3-to-1 heading into Tuesday's election.

Both candidates had said during the campaign that the state-appointed emergency manager should leave the city and allow the new mayor to fix Detroit's finances when he takes office in January.

"I'm going to try to shorten Kevyn Orr's stay," Duggan told The Associated Press heading into the election.

But the reality is that Duggan will have little power under emergency manager Kevyn Orr, who in July filed to take Detroit into bankruptcy.

Duggan, an ex-county prosecutor and former chief of the Detroit Medical Center, said he wants to convince Orr's boss, Gov. Rick Snyder, to allow him to develop a team and a plan to resuscitate the city's fiscal condition if elected mayor.

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This is good for Detroit, I think. I'm pretty surprised that only 155k people voted in a town with 550k registered voters, though.

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SheHateMe

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I saw the ballots, his name was on there.


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Ignore Kwame's name. My friend was being cheeky.
 

compuwiz1

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No surprise there that there were not more voters, considering the literacy rate there might be close to 50%. The rest of them couldn't break the bondage of detroit being run by democrats and elected another one. How has that worked out for them in the past 4 decades? Detroit is gone and has been for some time.
 

AdamantC

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Isn't running for mayor of Detroit kindda like running for captain of a sinking ship at this point in time?
 

CPA

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He pledged to build a diverse administration that represents and includes people of varying races, religions, sexual orientations.

Yeah, because that's the important issue facing Detroit right now. smh.

White or black, doesn't matter, he's a Democrat, so doubt anything changes.
 

Doppel

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No surprise there that there were not more voters, considering the literacy rate there might be close to 50%. The rest of them couldn't break the bondage of detroit being run by democrats and elected another one. How has that worked out for them in the past 4 decades? Detroit is gone and has been for some time.

Yep, the place is born to fail. Its demographics and economic factors ensure it has a continued bleak and damned future.

~ 30% turnout rate seems right. The rest are either high on crack or sitting with a pistol in their lap wondering whether they should finally just end it.
 

fskimospy

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lol. you are quite authoritarian and haggar didnt have to use force to rescue jessica anyway as he couldve just stepped down from controlling people.

I admit that I never tried to hug my way through Final Fight, I'll be sure to try that next time I happen upon a machine.

Speaking of Mike Haggar, this reminded me of one of the greatest things on Youtube:
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boomerang

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Nobody has declared the low turnout because of voters being disenfranchised. I am disappoint.

Doh! What was I thinking? A Democrat won. No disenfranchising found.
 
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Texashiker

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Michigan was never subject to preclearance requirements from the voting rights act.

Funny how that works out.

No preclearance, democrat controlled government, and the city is bankrupt.

While Texas (houston, dallas, austin,,,) is subject to preclearance, republican controlled government, and one of the strongest economies in the union.
 
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Jaskalas

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Yeah but... how could a guy with a name of Napoleon ever win? People of Detroit probably thought France would invade if they did.
 

Svnla

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I don't know why would anyone want to be the captain of the Detroitanic.

Bing got 1 term and would not want to run for another one.
 
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rudder

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I don't know why would anyone want to be the captain of the Detroitanic.

Bing got 1 term and would not want to run for another one.

Maybe the guy has aspirations to be a CEO. Fixing Detroit is going to cause some pain, but it can be done. The guy who does will likely get death threats and be run out of town... but this will show his prowess as a CEO.