I don't think anybody here lives in Detroit (just guessing), but it's still local...

The Free Press endorsed Warren Evans today, which I thought was surprising.

You'd think Bing would win on name recognition.

Coleman Young Jr. has the name recognition vote wrapped up.

Someone tell me who the most radical lib of the bunch is and he'd/she'd get my vote.

Someone tell me who the most radical lib of the bunch is and he'd/she'd get my vote.
The list of candidates isn't complete without Sharon McPhail...

So it's Bing and Cockrel? That seems like a good out come. Way to go Detroit!

KWAME

i knew it was gonna be cockrel vs bing with a side piece of Faggot Hendrix because of the lack of time this election has had. Easiest faces to remember get the most billing.

Kwame Kilpatrick lost a primary.
Dennis Archer lost a primary.
Coleman Young lost a primary.
Roman Gribbs lost a primary.
Jerome Cavanaugh lost a primary.

All ended up being mayor. :)

More lies and drama!


Bing says it's not a 'big issue'

Associated Press

DETROIT -- Mayoral candidate and former NBA great Dave Bing said Wednesday it was "not correct" when he earlier claimed to have earned a master's degree in business administration.

But the claim on a videotape touting education and staying in school on the National Basketball Retired Players Association Web site was meant to be interpreted in a different manner, Bing told The Associated Press.

The founder and chairman of the Bing Group, a steel manufacturing operation and auto supplier, was responding to a Detroit Free Press story revealing he didn't earn an MBA from General Motors Institute, now called Kettering University in Flint, as he said on the tape.

"I felt I had an MBA for the work I had done in the industry I was in," Bing said. "When I made references to an MBA it wasn't that I went there and got it, but through what I had done.

"I made reference to how important education was for players, active and retired, and young people, that they should stay in school as long as they can and get their degrees."

The newspaper also reported that Bing didn't receive his bachelor's degree in 1966 from Syracuse University, as the former college star also claimed. Syracuse spokesman Kevin Morrow said Bing got his degree in economics in 1995, after he completed additional coursework.

In the videotape, Bing said, "I got an MBA from the General Motors Institute" after earning a BA from Syracuse. "I was one of those guys who graduated in four years."

Bing, 65, explained that as a simple discrepancy that wasn't discovered until 29 years after he left Syracuse for a Hall of Fame career in professional basketball. He doesn't remember which class it involved, but Bing said the incomplete left him three credits short of graduating.

"I did turn it in in 1966," he said of the paper. "The assumption was it was a dead issue. I surely had no reason to believe it was a problem."

But he learned in 1995 from an assistant basketball coach at Syracuse that the school did not list him as a graduate. Bing said he rewrote the paper.

"It was all about the auto industry and the challenges with being a supplier," he said. "I mailed it in. They mailed the degree out in 1995. It's at home."

The questions about Bing's education comes at a critical time, with a May 5 mayoral runoff to fill the remainder of disgraced ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's term less than two months way.

Kilpatrick and his former chief of staff were charged with lying on the stand during a whistleblowers' trial about having an intimate relationship and their roles in the firing of a police official.

During the primary campaign, Bing released his financial records and challenged the other candidates to do the same. The major candidates, including Democratic mayor Ken Cockrel Jr., refused. The same challenge was issued to Cockrel after they finished as the top two vote-getters in the Feb. 24 nonpartisan primary.

The winner of the runoff will serve as mayor until the regularly scheduled 2009 primary is held in August, followed by the general election in November.

Cockrel spokesman Jim Edmondson declined to comment until discussing the Free Press article with Cockrel.

^ That hurt. Lanier and Bing were my Pistons growing up. Both good peeps.

GMI/Kettering's in Flint, and I'm fairly certain didn't have a "remote campus" thing back in the mid-90s. They were more of an elite undergraduate school, espcially in that timeframe. Yeah, they had an MBA program, but geared for folks working in Flint and weenie students who wanted one-stop shopping for a combined undergrad/MBA degree.

In that timeframe, I was looking at employing a GMI student, so I dug into the program.

^ That hurt. Lanier and Bing were my Pistons growing up. Both good peeps.

Tahoe can't support a liar.

I'm cutting Mr Bing some slack on this one. He went to college a long time ago.

I'm cutting Mr Bing some slack on this one. He went to college a long time ago.
Pretty irrelevant waste of time. I appreciate Bing answering the bs this morning on Fox2.

I like this bias part though.


Kilpatrick and his former chief of staff were charged with lying on the stand during a whistleblowers' trial about having an intimate relationship and their roles in the firing of a police official.
Errr this compares to that? Really? lol...

Detroit needs Bing more than Bing needs Detroit, if they're going to demonize the most competent, successfull candidate, then the city is more fucked up then I thought...

Of course no man will be able to get anything done in that town with the fucked up City Council.

BTW, here's the video in question:

https://www.nbrpa.com/interactive/index.aspx?gal=video&catid=38&fileid=307

There's some other interesting footage on that site from former pros.


Of course no man will be able to get anything done in that town with the fucked up City Council.
I believe that is the key word.

City Council at this point is a steaming shitpile of estrogen -- luminaries like Monica Conyers and Barbara Rose-Collins who have the other women on the council in their sway for some unholy reason.

Menstruation synchronization is a bitch.

Today is the big day.

I think I'm rooting for Bing to win simply because Ken Cockrel goes back to city council and changes the balance by not being batshit crazy.

Neither one of them has great prospects. The loser is done like san antonio in april but the winner will still have very little in the way of incumbent advantage in the "real" election and could easily get picked off. The smart play might have been to sit out the preliminaries, it'll be interesting to see who comes off the sidelines for november.

It's nice to see a grown-up in charge of City Council again.

I honestly think Bing was genius when he said "Vote for me and Cockrel can go back to babysitting the city council again." I could take Bing or leave him, but having an adult managing the agenda of the city council is huge. Best of all possible worlds here.

I wonder how Dave Bing's joint marketing with Microsoft will help Detroit:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/165462/microsoft_may_rename_live_search_bing_massive_ad_c ampaign_planned.html

:)