Detroit Has a New Emergency Manager Who Earns Nearly Twice as Much as the Mayor
Michigan’s governor, Rick Snyder, finally appointed a emergency financial manager to get Detroit back into financial stability.
Kevyn Orr, a partner in Jones Day, a Cleveland-based law firm, will have power to control all spending, including throwing out contracts, make cutbacks, sell of assets and suspend elected officials salaries.
Snyder said, “I’m confirming my determination of a financial emergency. I’m going to ask the Emergency Loan Board to move forward with the plan of appointing an emergency manager for the city of Detroit.”
However, this does not mean that the city will avoid bankruptcy court. Orr said in a news conference that there was still a possibility of using Chapter 9 bankruptcy to correct the problems within the city. “Don’t make me go to the bankruptcy court. You won’t enjoy it,” he said. “I’m very comfortable in the bankruptcy court. I don’t want to pull that cudgel out unless I have to.”
“We can rise from the ashes,” Orr told a news conference. “This is a beautiful city and a wonderful state that gave me my start. I feel compelled to do this job.” He went on to say, “If we can do this, I will have participated in one of the greatest turnarounds in the history of this country.”
Under state law, his appointment is to last 18 months. But Orr doesn’t expect the turnaround to take nearly that long.
The job “has a fuse on it,” he said. “And If I do a good job, I get fired. I am highly motivated. If we work together, we can get this done significantly shorter than 18 months.”
Orr’s appointment comes after Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder determined that a financial emergency existed in the city, based on the recommendation of a bipartisan review board. Orr’s initial term will last for 18 months, and he will earn $275,000 a year, compared with $158,000 for Detroit Mayor Bing.
Mayor David Bing, a Democrat, supported the move to appoint an emergency manager, by Snyder, a Republican. “Bottom line here, we must stop fighting each other,” Bing said. “We must start to work together. I’m happy now I have teammates.
Detroit has over 700,000 residents and is the largest city in American history to be directly taken over by state government. Some critics are wondering why a city that is in an alleged financial emergency can afford to pay the new manager so much money. From former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to the highly-paid individuals involved in the pending bankruptcy, are people seeking to profit and pillage from the demise of Detroit? It’s hard to tell.
“The state is not going to be healthy without a healthy Detroit,” Snyder said.
Only time will tell if the city will be better off in the end.
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Just another ‘BOUGHT’ negroid to keep Black people in Detroit at the bottom of the ship.
He’s being paid by the elite to make sure caucasoids are safe when they re-enter the Black community. This was a plan from the git-go, to put this ‘token’ negroid in this position, to make BLACKS IN DETROIT, ‘THINK’ HE IS OUT TO HELP THEM!!!
They are building up downtown Detroit, so caucasoids can bring their businesses back downtown, and they are buildng sky rise apartments, so they can live in peace and harmony without being ‘mugged’. The inner city is being CONTROLLED by caucasoid pigs, while the Black cops are only allowed to give tickets to caucasoids, who speed along I-75. They ARE NOT ALLOWED TO KILL, BEAT OR ARREST caucasoid criminals!!!
They (caucasoids), who really run Detroit are getting ready to ‘whiten’ up this city, that was once a VIBRANT, MUSIC CAPITAL OF THE WORLD, ENTERTAINMENT CAPITAL OF THE WORLD, AND WHERE THE CLEANEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD once lived, into a caucasoid mecca!
THEY DIDN’T BUILD THOSE STADIUMS DOWNTOWN JUST TO OCCUPY BLACK FOLKS!!!
If there are caucasioid pigs then there are surely black pigs. where’s the accountability in your comments?
At the bargain rates real estate is going for in Detroit, blacks too would be buying in if they wanted. But blacks are leaving as fast as they can. Blacks rely too much on whites for organization then cry foul when they leave or want to play in their sandboxes when they return.
If you truly believe a mind is a terrible thing to waste you would never espouse the comments you’ve written. You’d acknowledge black cultural culpability by generational neglect of the levers of power.
I will have to dismiss you rant, as non since. Their is no denying Detroit economic trouble in spite of the efforts of Mayors Bing, Kilpatrick, US Congressmen Coleman Young or John Conyers. It’s time for black folks to stand up, be accountable and take control of yourselves. Letting the Governor take of the city is your own fault.
I love and want John Conyers to be president. Too bad he is associated with the Detroit mess, but I’m hopeful that this brother Orr will not let us down and be a hero for the people. What he makes in salary is his business. Everyone has the right to negotiate their own salary. Obviously they believe he is worth it, and if they believe it, so do I.
Conyers if you haven’t notice, is dealing with a case of senility, the people of Michigan had better sit him out of Washington before he makes the whole state look foolish.
yeah. havent saw him in 20 or more years but in his hayday he would have been my choice for president.
Orr is the clean up man! The state of Michigan is paying him to do the job decades of black elected officials were totally ill equipped to handle!
Other wise Detroit would be a striving world class city rather than the b**t of jokes!
I suspect when he shows how screwed up the city really is, when all of the hidden secrets come out and recomendations are made he will be worth a lot more than what he is getting!
yes, and eventhough a black man took the city down, I’m proud of the powers that be, for choosing a black man to clean up the mess, and I’m hoping so much that we will have a hero to be proud of.
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