COBO HALL, DETROIT CITY COUNCIL FAILS DETROIT, STATE OF MICHIGAN MUST TAKEOVER DETROIT, A FAILED CITY

Cobo Hall is a millstone around the city of detroit. it is deteriorating facility that the city hasn't properly maintained. the lower level is disgusting and disgraceful example of what Detroit has become, a city devoid quality political leadership - a city that desperately needs leadership, but a city that continually falls short.

The defeat of the cobo hall expansion proposal should be the final straw that pushes the state of Michigan into a takeover of Detroit, it showed that Detroit city council aren't capable of separating political expediency from the real needs of Detroit.

Detroit is $300 - $700 million dollars in DEBT, and cobo was another drain on city finances. with the cobo expansion offered a chance that Cobo Hall could be renovated, rehabbed so that it could be restored as a jewel of the city - rather than an scarred neglected imitation of a quality convention facility.

Hotel - convention and other small business owners must now speak out and demand better leadership. Detroit residents that rallied to the false siren song of failed politicians, that they were saving a jewel and standing up against suburban interests, must be made to understand that they have been mislead, lied to and used as pawns that doesn't serve their best interests.

Courageous council members: Kwame Kenyatta, Brenda Jones, and Sheila Cockrel should be commended for trying to move Detroit forward, and rejecting - the race card. Detroiters should oust, recall these failed council members: Monica Conyers (maybe the feds will oust here), JoAnn Watson, Martha Reeves, Alberta Tinsley-Talabi and Barbara Rose Collins should condemned for voting against the Cobo proposal and against the best interest of Detroit.

They should have rejected - the race card - the siren song that has played and replayed for over 30 years - that whites / suburbanites are trying to steal Detroit jewels.