MIKE DUGGAN IS A SCOUNDREL

On Memorial Day weekend of 2022,  The Detroit News  broke the story that indicted Councilman André Spivey had told Mayor Duggan who was wearing the FBI wire around city hall, and that Duggan started going around warning others: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2022/05/31/feds-link-duggan-outing-informant-behind-scenes-bribery-scandal If you do not have a Detroit News subscription, here is the Deadline Detroit version, with no paywall: https://www.deadlinedetroit.com/articles/30630/detroit_mayor_duggan_reportedly_leaked_fbi_snitch_s_identity_in_towing_bribes_investigation Quotes from the Detroit News :  Detroit — Federal agents have linked Mayor Mike Duggan to a chain of events that outed a confidential FBI informant and alerted a target of an ongoing investigation of bribery, extortion and fraud at City Hall, The Detroit News has learned.  Federal court records and interviews provide a look at Duggan's conduct behind the scenes of a f...

It would seem that the mayor's staffers, including his  official spokesman John Roach , are going around on Facebook looking for negative posts about Duggan to "debunk," especially on the Coalition for Property Tax Justice page, which is dedicated to calling him out for not repaying residents affected by the $600M overtaxation:  Is this what we pay them to do, with our tax dollars? Is the mayor's ego really that fragile? Is he really that petty? This is his Trumpian side coming out again...he needs to manipulate the media narrative about his failings. I double-checked, and sure enough it was that John Roach: As surreal as this appears, you can be assured that Duggan's people are also monitoring this website as well. It is already known that city staffers routinely listen to radio shows on 910AM that have a history of criticizing Dear Mayor. He probably is trying to figure out who I am so that he can put a police tail on me so I can be arrested and locked up as ...

During the Detroit municipal election cycle for 2021, there was a virtual media blackout on the fact that most of the seats of our government were up for reelection. It was as if the local media didn't want us to know that we could vote these people out, or that there were in fact viable, qualified challengers to vote for. This blackout afforded Duggan the comfort level to just simply refuse to participate in a mayoral debate with his challenger, Anthony Adams—a black man. When they did cover Duggan's electoral challenger, local media chose to focus on the fact that Adams worked under the evil Kilpatrick administration in an attempt to associate him with corruption. Nevermind that Adams also worked under other mayors besides Kwame. I made some original content for once! Is refusing to debate going to be the new fad among politicians in the Post-Trump Era? Refusing to debate is one step closer to refusing to have an election. I mean what's the point of all that hassle anyway...

It can be said that if you want to know what a politician's true values and priorities really are, look at who donated to his campaign fund. Let's take a closer look at Duggan's campaign chest. He is perhaps the only city mayor in the nation to have a Super-PAC (something usually reserved for national-level candidates). Granted, thanks to the controversial “Citizens United” U.S. Supreme Court decision that allowed for the creation of Super PACs in 2010, it is not possible to see all of Duggan's Super PAC donors, or how much they gave. But perhaps it is enough for us to know that he does not want us to know . Because of that ruling, a politician's Super PAC may receive unlimited donations from corporations, unions, nonprofits and individuals, without having to make their records public. Nonetheless, some of Duggan's campaign contributions are public, and **spoiler alert** they are mostly from people and corporations from outside of Detroit, with mostly conservati...

By now, everyone must have heard about the big raids at City Council, and how four council members connected to Mike Duggan are apparently embroiled in the towing company bribery scandal that has been simmering in the city since the Kwame years. The local media are allowing Duggan to stay quiet and act like he is not involved, but I know better. All of those council members (Ayers, Benson, Spivey, and Leland) are Duggan's loyalists, and the mayor has staunchly endorsed all of them in every election including this November. In this post I will weave Duggan back into the story. These council members are small fish, and clearly none of them are the head of the organization. Every circus has to have a ringleader, but even with all of them snitching on him it is highly unlikely that the FBI will pinch Duggan for this, because of the political fallout that it would pose for the Democrats at the national level, and because Duggan is so good at surrounding himself with fall guys, deleting ...

If you know anything about the Detroit Land Bank Authority (DLBA) you know that they are now infamous for their mishandling of public funds, numerous scandals regarding demolition practices, ongoing federal investigations, playing shell games with vast amounts of public land, blocks of addresses of vacant Land Bank houses showing up on absentee voter ballots, and of course, at the center of it all, puppet-master Mike Duggan. But have you ever wondered who is directly in charge of the DLBA? It has a CEO and a board of directors, although four of the five board members are appointed by the mayor, so we all know what that means. Here is a roll call of the board members, CEOs, and other notable past members who have been at the steering wheel of this clown car... Board Chair Erica Ward Gerson Corporate lawyer from Skadden Arps (the law firm credited with spearheading the tax inversions boom allowing corporations to pay less), former DMC trustee chair (where she was very close to Duggan), ...