The World According To Brooks
Brooks Patterson is Oakland County Michigan's Chief Executive and biggest promoter. Brooks while a good administrator occasionally goes off on a tangient that even Brooks dosent understand. A few years back Brooks championed the cause of building a garbage incinerator in North Oakland County. Brooks a good political salesmen backed building this incinerator with his heart and sole even though it made absolutely no sense to build it.
Oakland County is know for its beautiful lakes which would have been polluted with lead had the incinerator been built. Brooks because of his excellent salemenship did get the voters to approve funding for the incinerator. The incinerator because of the force of Brooks personality was well on its way to getting built.
Then one angry north Oakland County woman stepped in and tripped up Brooks and his backers and stopped the incinerator cold . Marilyn Ristow convinced Larry Pernick a well liked infleuntial Oakland County Commisisoner that the incinerator would harm and pollute the area. Pernick althought the voters had voted to fund the project convinced the other County Commissioners to veto it.
A short time later because of recyling and the over building of incinerators and new land fills there was suddenly a gargage shortage. Michigan in order to feed the incinerators that had already been built was forced to import gargage from other states. When it became obvious that the proposed Oakland County incinerator would have been a giant waste of 750 million dollars of public money Brooks calmly said he wasnt really for the incinerator after all.
And now Brooks has championed another cause that makes about as much sense as the incinerator. Brooks thinks it high time that the state spend hundreds of millions of dollars renovating and rebuilding Cobo Hall for the yearly Automoible Show that usually lasts about ten days. Never mind the government now owns the automobile companies because they went bankrupt and that state is broke with a 13% unemployment rate. Detroit and Michigan have the highest rate of children living in poverty of any big city in North America. And yet Brooks is still pushing,promoting and championing a new convention center for metro Detroit inspite of there being no funds for it.
Detroit has no libraries,minimal bus service,a fire department without equipment or gas for the trucks and a skeleton police crew but Brooks demands that a new convention center be built. The only question for Brooks is this proposed new Convention Center for Detroit another Oakland County type incinerator project. Because if it is this may be the straw that broke the camels back. This project could make the entire state follow in General Motors foot path to bankruptcy.
Oakland County is know for its beautiful lakes which would have been polluted with lead had the incinerator been built. Brooks because of his excellent salemenship did get the voters to approve funding for the incinerator. The incinerator because of the force of Brooks personality was well on its way to getting built.
Then one angry north Oakland County woman stepped in and tripped up Brooks and his backers and stopped the incinerator cold . Marilyn Ristow convinced Larry Pernick a well liked infleuntial Oakland County Commisisoner that the incinerator would harm and pollute the area. Pernick althought the voters had voted to fund the project convinced the other County Commissioners to veto it.
A short time later because of recyling and the over building of incinerators and new land fills there was suddenly a gargage shortage. Michigan in order to feed the incinerators that had already been built was forced to import gargage from other states. When it became obvious that the proposed Oakland County incinerator would have been a giant waste of 750 million dollars of public money Brooks calmly said he wasnt really for the incinerator after all.
And now Brooks has championed another cause that makes about as much sense as the incinerator. Brooks thinks it high time that the state spend hundreds of millions of dollars renovating and rebuilding Cobo Hall for the yearly Automoible Show that usually lasts about ten days. Never mind the government now owns the automobile companies because they went bankrupt and that state is broke with a 13% unemployment rate. Detroit and Michigan have the highest rate of children living in poverty of any big city in North America. And yet Brooks is still pushing,promoting and championing a new convention center for metro Detroit inspite of there being no funds for it.
Detroit has no libraries,minimal bus service,a fire department without equipment or gas for the trucks and a skeleton police crew but Brooks demands that a new convention center be built. The only question for Brooks is this proposed new Convention Center for Detroit another Oakland County type incinerator project. Because if it is this may be the straw that broke the camels back. This project could make the entire state follow in General Motors foot path to bankruptcy.
posted by thedetroittimes at 11:16 AM
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