Stealing a line from the great Daily Show…Your moment of Flint Zen UPDATE!

The mayor of the city of Flint is a very successful business person, but it is clear that human relations are not his primary forte. This article is the closest the local paper has come to criticizing the current administration since the dealerships in his wife's name started to advertise there again. I want to make it clear that I am pro-union but sadly bothered by how often union means ineffective. And I realize this article is slanted very pro-union, but in Flint, Michigan, writers who are not taking that route, rarely retain any employment. On another note I know the story refers to the woman involved assaulting her husband and her boyfriend, but I am not sure that she assaulted two people, but rather this is an example of shoddy research and poor editorial oversight at the Flint Urinal.

Some interesting excepts
“FLINT – Flint police union officials said Thursday that Mayor Don Williamson wrongly suspended a patrol officer and a sergeant without pay for 29 days for “being rude” to a woman they were investigating.
“There was no cause for action against them,” Speer said about the suspended officers. “The mayor doesn't even know the story, the chief of police isn't even here, and a sergeant with an exceptional record is suspended without being allowed to give his side of the story.”
The woman's boyfriend, who lives on Susan Street, told police on June 12, she pulled into the driveway at a high rate of speed, attempted to run him over and rammed his parked vehicle
Union officials learned of the suspensions on Wednesday, the same day that two other police sergeants, James Hamilton and Draike Sparks, filed a lawsuit against Williamson and the city in U.S. District Court in Flint.
The unions have maintained the mayor's bureau is a political detail for Williamson. Scores of Flint police officers of all ranks filed complaints last year with federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission as a result of the creation of the bureau.”
Here is an interesting note about the aforementioned mayors bureau, who was also recently seen passing out thinly veiled campaign propaganda at the local Farmers 's Market.
Have to love my hometown! I applaud you Flint Urinal! For rising above such articles as this one, where you identified a primary Williamson supporter and personal friend as “Wilson, a former Genesee County sheriff and longtime political insider” who just so happens to be the last Sheriff FORCED TO RESIGN from our county (and the first and only, and hopefully the last)
BTW we are celebrating our first murder free month of the year! ( so far )
Not shockingly, the city administration reversed itself today in yet another example of near criminally negligent management technique! There has been a constant revolving door of firings without cause, then having to pay back pay and benefits because of a rogue adminstration that ACTUALLY believes that the rule of man superceeds the rule of law, and continually places itself above the law. Which is exactly what I expect from a convicted felon like the mayor. I am not shocked that the Mayor took the side of a possible criminal over that of the police. Perhaps if he would stop stomping on their morale they would actually CUT the amount of crime in this city. I am just relieved this was settled before the mayor was directly responsible for losing the city yet more money. I wish he would collect his pay check and shut his mouth, the city would have millions more for essential uses if he did. With his salary at 4 cents a year we are overpaying him by about 4 million annually. Counting lawsuits he is most like gong to cost the city an entires years budget by the end of his first term in childish mistakes alone.