SO I REMEMBER TO ASK MY FELLOW CITIZENS ABOUT ...
Saw on the front page of the Detroit News (I read the Freep ... today's hasn't been read yet) about the schools budget deficit being bigger than estimated. Gee, hadn't we heard that one before, by Connie Calloway, the PREVIOUS school superintendent?
Wonder what is making it so much more palatable and easier to swallow now? Could it be that it is someone who is an 'insider' a person who is already a part of the Detroit system? I don't know ... got to read the story, but I think it is par for the course. So much civic waste in this town, with its shrinking tax base and corrupt officials, I wonder if a city this big can go into receivership?
Does anyone feel sorry for Christine Beatty? She is the 'other woman' in the Kwame Kilpatrick case ... she is due out of the pokey in a day or so ... soon is the better word, since I can't call it. But she is supposed to pay the city back, but she is also toxic when it comes to getting a job.
Maybe someone will employ her, and I am not talking about McDonald's. I mean, I figure she has to know someone, has a contact somewhere and her degree, of course, to market something. But I have a hard time 'feeling' anything regarding her.
I keep seeing the kind of lassie (I am sure that 'her boy' Kwame was the kind of guy that ...) made high school a mine field for me. She got caught up playing her game, being the 'Honey Brown' to Kwame's 'Slick Willie'. Together, they've cost the city millions of dollars.
No, it isn't fair that Kwame gets 'the hook up' from Peter Karmanos, set up nice and plush in Texas, while Christine gets the ziggy. She has been living hand to mouth for quite awhile, over extending herself as far as zip code and other gaudy things. Oh, and the affair cost her, her marriage. No, it isn't fair ... but then, what is?
State is looking like the Big Ten champion. This looks like a Tom Izzo Final Four team. The ones that make it that deep, rarely have smooth seasons, always 5 to 6 losses, with a stinker or two thrown in. But because he schedules his teams so tough, when they finish strong like this was has, they are really tournament ready.
Not glamorous, but built for success. State is going to make some noise!!
That is it for now. Wanted to write stuff down to remind me to look it up again when I get the chance. Everyone have a great weekend, it is going to be spring soon!!
5 comments:
Toxic or not, I'll bet Christine is still well-connected enough to get a job before the average out of work person is, and a higher paying one too. I have been surprised at people in my own state who are supposedly "disgraced" in one way or another--how easily thru connections they get hooked up with great jobs and then also find the time to write books & give interviews(for pay) about their "ordeal." ~Mary
Sure she can sell her story for another 15 minutes in the limelight.
Go Illini :o)
Mary and Ken are right--people like that still have connections, and usually end up with lucrative book deals. Think Blagojevich. I refuse to buy such things and fund their idiocy and dishonesty.
B.
We are living in tough times.You make alot of sense though. Stop by my blog when you get a chance.
Take Care
JOHN
I agree with what Mary said;Christine will get a write a book; she'll do the circuit to promote the book and somehow she'll come out looking as a victim in all this. you have a good weekend too, Mark! it is almost spring you are right! wow, this month is going by fast :)
betty
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