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seemed a bit tentative and sometime lacking enunciation when speaking, is back to his
old feisty self.
Appearing on WXYZ-TV’s “Spotlight on the News” this
morning with host Chuck Stokes, the Oakland County executive showed no signs of
the terrible injuries in a 2012 car crash that nearly took his life.
this to say:
scapegoat in the bankruptcy court. Those who rely on the Detroit pension system
are not responsible for the mismanagement and corruption that led to the city
going broke. After working for decades providing basic city services at a
moderate wage, they deserve to continue receiving their modest pensions.
* The prospect of selling off paintings and artifacts at
the Detroit Institute of Arts (which the executive called the last, best asset
the city has) is a “bluff” by Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr.
* Diverting money from the Detroit Water and Sewerage
Department to help pay off the Motor City’s massive debts would amount to improperly
“co-mingling” funds. DWSD’s 128 suburban customers will not help bail out the
city, and any such move would be foolish when Detroit is $30 to $40 billion
behind schedule in repairing and replacing sewer and water infrastructure, some
of which dates to the 19th Century.
* Fellow Republican Gov. Snyder deserves a “B+” grade at
this point in his first term in office. Patterson was particularly harsh in
criticizing Snyder’s support for the latest attempt in Lansing to reform
Michigan’s no-fault auto insurance system. The proposed legislation would only
enrich the insurance companies and House Speaker Jase Bolger, a Marshal
Republican, has “drunk the Kool-Aid” on this issue.
interview.
