Detroit is a freaking mess!

Posted at 7:45am on Jul. 2, 2008 Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

I swear, we could talk about a shocking new detail or a major new scandal out of Detroit every day for a year and we still won't have gotten to the bottom of all of the sludge (har) in the lefty Mecca.  Today it's the Ivory Tower telling us that a member of the mainstream media has been officially caught up in the mix:


According to a report by Fox 2 reporter Scott Lewis, (Fox 2 Reporter Fanchon) Stinger accompanied Detroit developer Rayford Jackson to a meeting with city councilwoman Monica Conyers in October at Southwestern Church of God in Detroit regarding a possible sludge recycling contract with Synagro Technologies Inc.

Lewis said Stinger was not at the meeting to report the story. It's unclear why Stinger attended the meeting.

The FBI is currently investigating the City Council over the deal as one staff member was recently outed on videotape accepting payoffs.  Conyers appears to be at the center of the investigation, her longtime A-Team political consultant Sam Riddle no longer in her employ for unspecified reasons offering up tasty morsels like this, maybe the funniest heartbreaking truism I've read in months...

"The only difference between Detroit and Third World nations in terms of corruption is that there are no goats in the streets in Detroit."

Ouch.

Read on . . .

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