CONYERS - WATSON, SHUT UP..DETROIT NEEDS LEADERSHIP ON COBO HALL

Why don't fellow members of the Detroit City Council or friends of Monica Conyers and JoAnn Watson tell them to 'stifle it' or just plain 'shut up'.

Their comments are further damaging the image of Detroit, the Council and themselves providing further reasons to look beyond Detroit to the suburbs for leadership and intelligent city government.

Monica in a Detroit News article again tries to comment on the Cobo Hall deal and justinvites ridicule and shows her ignorance. JoAnn Watson blames the media for her ignorance and serious lack of common sense and discretion.

Detroiters will benefit from the Cobo Hall deal, as it stands - now, and even if tweaked by Mayor Bing - they will get to keep their jobs at restaurants, bars, casinos and other businesses that cater to Cobo conventioneers and visitors. Detroit will get to keep or increase the tax revenue that Cobo generates, if it remains viable and improved.

Detroit will enhance its tarnished image and reputation if a renovated and improved Cobo Hall attracts more conventions and visitors and positive comments spread, throughout the country.

Requesting set asides and special job quotas only makes Detroit look desperate and needy. A city that has to have special consideration because it has poor schools, and an uneducated work force. Rather than residents who are educated and ready to compete for any job that Cobo can create or needs. Black residents should be ashamed that Conyers and other council members thinks so little of them and their abilities, while professing to be their champions.

A succession of Detroit Mayors and Council members have allowed Cobo Hall to fall into severe disrepair - a city building engineer told me - it should closed and condemned. They have failed year after year to make necessary repairs and improvements needed to make Cobo a viable convention center. They have failed to control union contracts and costs associated with attracting and keeping convention business. How many businesses and companies have bit their tongues and used Cobo for a convention - because of loyalty to Detroit and a willingness to help it survive.

Cobo Hall is a disgrace - a negative factor in moving Detroit forward, take a walking tour for yourself, look at the ceilings (protect your eyes during rain storms), go downstairs into the basement, look at the loading docks - and you will see that any attempt to renovate Cobo would be a chore a major undertaking - and a blessing to the City of Detroit.

Detroit can only benefit...and Detroit residents need leadership to embrace the opportunity to make Cobo Hall - a great convention center.

And JoAnn Watson - OMG, blasphemy - using a prayer session in front of her home - to invoke God - to try and fool Detroit residents into believing that God is on her side - despite her totally unbelievable story about her home assessment and failure to pay her fair share of property taxes. A council woman that is that ignorant and deceitful must resign - but won't - so Detroit residents must rise up and tell her too. Watson tries to blame the media for her serious lack of common sense and discretion - fellow council member should tell to pay up and 'shut up'.

IMPEACH MONICA CONYERS, REDUCE DETROIT CITY COUNCIL / DETROIT SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS

"Impeach Conyers before it's too late"...Nolan Finley (4/5/9) Detroit News

Doesn't go far enough...Detroit has less than 900,000 residents and nine (9) council members - too many...the residents should demand that the city charter be amended to reduce the number of council members to five or seven, which would also create a budget
savings and a more efficient council. But this in not about to happen, so the state must step in and use whatever powers it has to reduce the council membership.

Detroit has a dearth, a shortage of quality leaders - the black ministers of Detroit have failed to use their moral leadership to improve Detroit. While Detroit drifts they remain silent. Wether it was Kilpatrick or Conyers they have failed to forcefully speak out demanding ethical leadership and an end to racial baiting politics. They need to tell Conyers to 'shut up' and the rest of the Council to do their jobs ethically and efficiently.

Conyers is buoyed enough with her anti Cobo support to think she should run for Mayor -OMG - what message will that send to the suburbs, outstate residents and supporters of Detroit that his woman - race baiter - emotionally challenged would be taken seriously as a candidate.

And their is no outstanding candidate for mayor...only pretenders. Detroit it challenged and needs an ethical, intelligent, and level headed person to lead Detroit into the future. It may not happen in the next few years, but a leader for Detroit must be found.

Ps. The Detroit School Board has eleven members - Boob should reduce that number down to five to seven, and apply their pay to student improvement. And make it clear that Detroit Public Schools has a dedicated leader - the Mayor of Detroit doesn't have the time.

MONICA CONYERS FOR MAYOR OF DETROIT, OMG - NO.

Are you going to vote for Monica Conyers for Mayor.

I think she is building momentum, posing, posturing, positioning for the next mayoral campaign. It is now not about Cobo - but about Monica, who played the RACE card, and stirred up divisions that should be healing. She has poisoned the debate, the Cobo deal and the economic atmosphere in Detroit and Michigan. Her actions are hurting Detoit and Michigan and she doesn't get it - or fathom what she has done. Neither does Martha Reeves, JoAnne Watson, Barbara Rose Collins or Alberta Tinsley-Talabi who have increased racial tensions and divisions with their votes and bizarre actions.

Monica could face Cockrel or Bing, in the next Mayor election, both of whom, will be injured during the bruising campaign....she could easily label Bing - carpet bagger (which will be in Cockrel campaign) and Cockrel would be vulnerable on the Cobo deal - no matter how it turns out.

Detroit is $300 - 700 million dollars in debt.

The Detroit School System has an appointed state financial overseer and a bloated ineffective school board, whose members must be cut to five to seven (5 -7).

Detroit has lost 600,000+ residents....

Under Mayor Cockrel, the City of Detroit spends $15.4 million to operate the nine member City Council and another $11.8 million to operate the Mayor's Office itself ($27.2 million dollars). This budget must be slashed to the bare bones. Council member must be cut to five - seven (5 - 7).

So much is at stake in the Mayoral election, the Cobo deal, more must be done to save Detroit - before Detroit can't be saved - before Monica Conyers - for Mayor. Let a real debate begin - today..