Category: City council race
Posted by Joel Kurth (The Detroit News) on Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 12:16 PMQuiet on the set! Watson causes stir; Johnson pens op-ed
City Council challenger Charles Pugh's money troubles notwithstanding, these may not be the best days to be an incumbent.
Council President Kenneth Cockrel Jr. was practically piggy-piled by challengers during last week's WADL debate. Polls show at least two incumbents could be in trouble Nov. 3.
And now Councilwoman JoAnn Watson has walked into a movie set. The hubbub during the filming of "Red Dawn" was caught on tape and Fox 2 has the video.
Raphael B. Johnson, meanwhile, is getting the sort of pub that challengers dream about, being published this week in a Newsweek MyTurn piece that tells the story of how he killed a man as a teen, served 12 years and turned his life around. The piece comes as the U.S. Supreme Court is weighing two cases on the constitutionality of life sentences for teens, Sullivan v. Florida and Graham v. Florida.
"The court should give people like me a reason to keep improving themselves," Johnson writes. "Individuals who have committed crimes as teens should be allowed to have their sentences reviewed. Teenagers change. Adolescents, even more than adults, have enormous capacity for redemption. I know."
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Acting is For The Pro(s)-Temp Witches!
Dude! If I did not know any better I would say this was a movie set! That guy has gun and starting a riot and no police...I sware this looks supicious dude. Yea Right!
It is time that Detroit stop looking at the hype. We need to start looking at the results. When there is non we have only the hype.
Why must elected officials act this way?
It is because we forget that certain people are actually working for us untill they do something stupid. So if maybe you are looking here is some entertainment witches!
MOst elected officails stay out of doge untill election time when they just sit on their selves and do nothing all term.
At least we still have some public servants still willing to play us for fools. I think I will smile for the cameras too. Its Lights Camera & AAction!
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Jo JO JO JO
You guys leave her alone, she was paying her housing taxes for the year and she needed the Detroit Police OFFICER, (1) BECAUSE THE OUTFIT SHE WAS WEARING,(2)SHE WAS LOADED, THE TAX ON HER HOUSE IS $68.00, (3)SHE WANTED FREE PRESS BEFORE THE ELECTION, BECAUSE SHE HASN'T BEEN ON TV THIS WHOLE TIME YET! NOW YOU CHOOSE WHICH ONE WAS REALLY THE OFFICIAL REASON WHY ,,,,,,THE HOLY JO ANN WATSON DISTURBED THE MOVIE SHOOTING OF THE REMAKE OF RED DAWN, ONE OF MY FAVORITES!!
DAN1958~HAZEL TUCKEY, MI 48030
PROUD MICHIGANDER!!!
JoAnn Watson
SO WHAT!!! SHE ACCIDENTLY WALKED ONTO A FILM SET!!!
FOX 2/TV4/TV7 & WJR, PLUS THE DET NEWS & FREEP ALL DETEST THIS WOMAN BECAUSE SHE TAKES A DETROIT 1ST STAND & IN PARTICULAR AN UNABASHED PRO BLACK STAND WHEN IT COMES TO DETROITERS GETTING CONTRACTS & JOBS!!!
CONTRARY TO WHAT MANY OF YOU SUBURBANITES MAY THINK!!!
THE TRUTH!!! (WHAT A WONDERFUL WORD) IS THAT MOST CITY WORKERS/CONTRACTORS ARE NON DETROITERS & NON BLACK BECAUSE OF THE POLICE & FIRE UNION RUNNING UP TO LANSING DURING REPUG ENGLER'S REIGN!!! & BECAUSE OF SELLOUTS LIKE ARCHER/KILPATRICK/BING!!!
THEY WERE ANGRY AS WERE YOU WITH BLACK DETROIT FOR CONVICTING TWO WHITE COPS FOR MURDER & WE HAVE BEEN PAYING A STEADY PRICE SINCE!!! 1ST YOU BACKED ARCHER TO PUT A BLACKFACE ON DISMANTLING OUR HOME RULE CHARTER/HUMAN RIGHTS!!!
THEN RACIST REPUGS IN LANSING PROCEEDED TO DEFUND 36DIST CRT., RESIDENCY, IMPOSED REGIONAL AUTHORITIES, TWO SCHOOL BOARD TAKEOVERS TO REWARD THE CONTRACTORS/POLITICAL CONTRIBUTORS OF BOTH PARTIES!!! ARCHER/KILPATRICK & BING DID NOT EMERGE AS CANDIDATES "OF THE PEOPLE", THEY WERE "PICKED", BY THE DOWNTOWN CORPORATE ELITE & THE REPUGS IN LANSING!!!
WHATS NEXT!!! COBO AUTHORITY, SELLING OF LIGHTING DEPT. TO DTE, SELLING OF CITY AIRPORT & THE WATER DEPT.???
I DONT THINK SO!!!
TOM BARROW 4 MAYOR!!
JoAnn Watson
Here we go again, more lies from JoAnn Watson. First, she tells the lie about a tornado hitting her house and claims she is unaware she is not paying her garbage fee and property taxes. Now, she pretends she did not know she was walking into a movie set. What else is she lying about? Why does Ms. Watson need a police escort to go to the bank? If she is dealing with a lot of money then she needs to pay ALL her back taxes and not a portion of them. Voters of Detroit, I hope you are paying attention. JoAnn Watson should NOT be reelected.
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