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Detroit city councilwoman wants ‘bacon’ from President Obama as quid pro quo for city’s overwhelming support on Election Day
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Aug 07, 2013 09:18am |
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| Category | News |
| Author | KRISTEN A. LEE |
| Media | Newspaper - New York Daily News |
| News Date | Wednesday, December 5, 2012 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | "A Detroit city councilwoman thinks President Obama owes her city for his election victory – and it’s time to pay up.
JoAnn Watson said Obama should help bail Detroit out of its financial crisis after its residents overwhelmingly voted him back into the White House, local Fox station WJBK reported.
Detroit faces a budget deficit of more than $200 million and is deep in debt.
"After the election of Jimmy Carter, the honorable Coleman Alexander Young (the former mayor of Detroit), he went to Washington, D.C. He came home with some bacon," Watson said at a City Council meeting Tuesday. "That's what you do."
"Our people, in an overwhelming way, supported the re-election of this president, and there ought to be a quid pro quo, and you ought to exercise leadership on that," she added.
WJBK noted that nearly 75 percent of Wayne County voters cast ballots for Obama last month." |
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