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Half of Detroit’s 8 mayoral candidates are felons 2017-08-03 01:07:20 Post No. 136004661
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Half of Detroit’s 8 mayoral candidates are felons 2017-08-03 01:07:20 Post No. 136004661
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Half of Detroit’s 8 mayoral candidates are felons
Anonymous
2017-08-03 01:07:20
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http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2017/08/02/half-detroit-mayoral-candidates-felony-convictions/104244406/
>Three were charged with gun crimes and two for assault with intent to commit murder. Some of the offenses date back decades, the earliest to 1977. The most recent was in 2008.
>Pitts, who says she has a business management degree and experience in carpentry
>Pitts contends she’s been wronged by the courts and police, and she disputes many of the allegations in each criminal case, saying she was discriminated against.
>If elected, she said she will combat “discrimination and racism” and advocate for an overhaul of the justice system.
>Fellow candidate Danetta L. Simpson has a 1996 felony conviction out of Oakland County for assault with intent to murder.
>The 46-year-old former cosmetologist and salon owner
>“I was a wrongfully convicted felon, overcharged for a crime I did not commit,” said Simpson, a mother of four, who contends the witness in the case “lied on me.”
>Another candidate, Articia Bomer, a document specialist who touts a culinary background and musical talents, was charged in 2008 with carrying a concealed weapon.
>The 45-year-old said her conviction is “frivolous” and “wrong.” It isn’t her focus and she doesn’t believe “that should hinder me.”
>Candidate Curtis Christopher Greene was charged with a felony at age 19. Greene, an author, said he’s since turned his life around by earning marketing degrees from the University of Phoenix and writing three books.
>Other areas include blight and a “pie-in-the-sky” vision for a 3-million-square-foot “Mall of Michigan” that would rival suburban shopping centers, he said.
>“I believe I’m the one to change the city,” Greene said. “Something put this in my heart to do it now.”
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>>136004661
And a Muslim
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Dindu Nuffin Party.
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There's also an Afrofuturist
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>>136007201
Her platform is amazing
1. Government for the People
Challenge:
Re-centering government focus on improving the lives of its citizens
Solutions:
– Human-centered rather than bottom-line governance
– Ensure every citizen is properly served and protected
– Heal the systems that create poverty
– Increase transparency to empower our citizenry
– Engage architecture, art, and design to inspire civic engagement
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>>136007281
2. Family Support
Challenge:
The family is the building block of any prosperous city. How to ensure Detroit’s families receive the support and partnership of their city?
Solutions:
– End Water Shut-offs by implementing the Affordability Plan
– Make mental health services a priority; Create neighborhood health services
– Expand express bus routes in neighborhoods
– Implement school gardens, and increase overall access to fresh food
– Raise minimum wage
– Stringently regulate clean air and water initiatives
– 100% literacy achieved through student and youth literacy brigades
– Create healthy re-entry programs for returning citizens via skills training, employment placement, and mental health services
– Support activity centers and homeschooling options as public schools close
– Protect immigration rights
– Implement restorative justice practices such as meditation instead of other forms of punishment in schools
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3. Detroiters Building Detroit
Challenge:
Using the talents and skills of Detroiters to manifest the future we desire
Solutions:
– Increase training in design and technology
– Require companies and investors to hire Detroit citizens by revising and strengthening the Community Benefit Agreements
– Increase citizen hire in high-level city government
– Increase entrepreneurial education programs for youth
– Create a Cultural Affairs Department
– Beautify our neighborhoods through the arts
– Invest in skill training in green energy jobs and the marijuana industry
– Reopen the city airport
– Create a neighborhood policy and youth council
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>>136007371
4. Own the Future
Challenge:
Keeping all of Detroit at the forefront of technology and innovation
Solutions:
– Internet access for all; Create community wireless networks
– Commit to a revitalized technological infrastructure
– Become a global leader in innovation by fostering imaginative collaboration
– Invest in and grow the creative sector
– Invest in emerging industries
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>>136004661
hHhHAHAHAHAHAHhahahahahahAHhahaHAhah
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What the fuck America? I thought you were a place of tolerance and freedom?
How can you even allow this? Only half are felons, that's not representative of the population at all! It would need to be at least 7 our of 8, if not all to appeal to the general population better. Seriously, someone needs to put an end to this.
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Otis Mathis was the President of the Detroit School Board. He was functionally illiterate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zti_508FRrE
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