This is a cautionary tale of what happens when Democrats take complete control of any level of government.

Recently leaked federal court documents reveal the systematic extortion that has become a necessary part of doing business in the City of Detroit.

Based on the testimony of Synagro representative Rayford Jackson, dealing with totally Democrat controlled Detroit meant greasing the palms of anyone in Motown’s government who stepped forward.

Jackson has even reported buying the vote of former City Council member Martha Reeves 68 , who rocked in the 1960’s as Martha and the Vandellas. Now Reeves may have “Nowhere to run” to take a phrase from one of her hits.

Jackson bribed City Council members’ political consultants and even aspiring Board of Education candidates. Among their usual demands were jobs, contributions to their campaigns and favored projects.

So far Jackson who swears he put nearly $350,000 into greedy palms and four others have pleaded guilty in this probe.

His bribe bought a hug and a vote

The investigation centers on Detroit’s shake down of Synagro a sludge hauling firm. The extortion was led by former Detroit City Council President Monica Conyers (Congressman John Conyers wife) who was convicted in federal court and sentenced to a term of prison.
Synagro “won” a $1.2 billion contract by buying Conyers, Councilwoman Reeves and others.

Records show that on the same day Reeves received a $1000.00 campaign contribution from a Synagro associate, a wire tap caught Jackson bragging he had cinched the deal with Reeves who hugged him and pledged her support for his project. Twelve days later Reeves joined the 5 to 4 majority in approving the contract.

Democrats trying to do to America what they’ve done Detroit

The grim truth is Democrats have destroyed Detroit, a once great American city. Detroit’s destruction provides another reminder of the dangers of one Party rule, especially when it is Democrats who are given unchecked power anywhere. The cesspool that is Motown is still not drained. The damage these people have done will take years, if ever, to fix. If we aren’t vigilant the Democrats will make the whole country run like Detroit.

Pledge your support to America.

If you’ve had enough fight what the Marxist Democrats want to do to us because the life of America depends on you and all of us.

Pray for America. God will hear us and save our country from the Marxists if we ask for His help. We are fighting powerful foreign AND domestic enemies.
Answer the challenge! Be a warrior for freedom!
If we let the sun set on this great nation we won’t see its likes again.

OBAMA’S TAXES ARE COMING
In January the taxes we warned Obama would shove down our throats are coming. Go to the tool bar at the top of the Collins Report and read about them.

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To read more about this story go to this Collins Report source:

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100712/NEWS01/7120363/1318/Synagro-cash-was-reached-for-by-many-records-show&template=fullarticle

Yesterday’s Rasmussen Presidential Index had Obama at –13

This day in history July 13
1977: A 25 hour blackout hit New York City causing widespread looting and rioting.

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Would that this was an April Fools trick, but it’s not. There’s still more bad news from Detroit.

Detroit is a cesspool of corruption and is beyond credible efforts to save it from its inexorable slip into oblivion.
Given the massive budget shortfalls facing Democrat controlled cities around the country Detroit aka “Cesspool City” will be only the first of a string of failed cities plaguing America’s revival efforts.

The list of outrages coming from Cesspool City are the things horror movies are made of.

*Coleman Young’s twenty years in office which started and accelerated the “White Flight.”

*The election and reelection of Kwame Kilpatrick who eventually was convicted of corruption and draining City funds for his personal use.

*Former City Council President Monica Conyers who will be going to federal prison for extortion and bribe receiving fittingly involving a sludge removal company.

*A School Board President who has a tenuous relationship to written English and is a former Special Education student.

*A real estate market that features free or $1.00 homes that still can’t be moved.

*A Public School System that discovered at least 250 previously unrecognized phantom employees who could not materialize to personally sign for the first paycheck distribution last September.

*A Public School System that has the lowest performance levels of any city in the country.

Now comes the news that the FBI has uncovered a scheme that was able to defraud the Detroit Public School system of at least $57 million by diverting the money to private accounts. Some of the parties that received the money stolen by former School’s Director of Risk Management Stephen Hill were his friends and/or family members of his assistant.

When Hill retired from Cesspool City he threw himself a $40,000 200 guest going away party.

When will America pull out of this poor excuse for a City? When will we see the end of Cesspool City?

What did you do to defend American freedoms yesterday? What will you do today and what do you plan to do tomorrow?

Use this site to contact your Congressional Representative. Let him or her know you will work to defeat anyone who votes for amnesty for illegal aliens or against any effort to kick them out.

https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml

Sources:

http://www.67riots.rutgers.edu/d_index.htm

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/10/28/detroit.mayor.sentenced/index.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/10/monica-conyers-wife-to-jo_n_494305.html

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/288622

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Economy/story?id=7034770&page=1

http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2009/06/audit_more_than_250_ghost_work.html

http://www.sodahead.com/fun/detroit-public-schools-score-worst-in-nations-history/blog-225391/

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100328/NEWS01/3280515/1318/FBI-investigates-ex-risk-manager-for-DPS-district-sues-to-get-money&template=fullarticle

Yesterday’s Rasmussen Presidential Index had Obama at-8

This day in history April 1
1945: Battle of Okinawa starts. It will end in the total defeat of Japan and cost us 50, 000 dead wounded or missing.

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Once proud Detroit, the apogee of American inventiveness and entrepreneurship, now looks like Dresden after an Allied bombing raid. To understand the destruction visited on the Motor City view this youtube video : www.lewrockwell.com /blog/lewrw/archives/46523.html.: scene after scene of abject despair recalls rapper Eminem’s lament of the darkness of Detroit.

Videographer Steve Crowder shows us gallons of antifreeze, the stuff meth is made of, and climbs decrepit stairs where fresh packs of syringes are stacked amid broken glass and utter destruction. The camera focuses on a big mosque carrying Crowder’s theme that 41 years of liberal politicians and policies have destroyed the city that once had America’s highest median income, and rapacious unions have drained out Detroit’s life blood, leaving wronged residents, uneducated youth, and unbelievable urban decay.

He debunks the canard that Detroit failed because its products weren’t green enough. Car buyers want SUVs and trucks. Even though the American auto industry produced more greens than other countries, Crowder said the stultifying union salaries and benefits piled $1,200 onto each car sold rendering Detroit unable to compete in price. He also called out the teachers’ unions who care more about protecting their own jobs than educating to graduation Detroit’s unfortunate children.

“A once great city was brought to its knees by government bureaucracies and unions.”

With only 25% of its students graduating from high school and the average home price at $5,700, what hope does America’s once proud icon have of surviving? Crowder says for the last 41 years, beginning with Mayor Jerome Cavanaugh, Detroit has been in the throes of failed government model cities programs that began with Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society experiment. Entire generations of entitlement junkies who see no reason to work for a living and who vote solidly for Democrats have left Detroit in ruins.

An apocryphal quote attributed to Scottish history professor Alexander Tyler details the fall of the Athenian Republic because a democracy “..is always temporary and only will exist until voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. Loose fiscal policies bring down the world’s greatest civilizations which complete a cycle beginning and ending with bondage. Early stages of a free society go from bondage to spiritual faith to great courage which brings liberty. Such liberty then results in abundance which leads to complacency which causes apathy.”
Democracies collapse into a dictator’s iron grip.

Does Detroit our once shining city on capitalism’s hill now presage a putrid hell for all of us locked in liberalism’s largess?

Stand up for America; stand up with your family friends neighbors and “old friends” you’ve never met. Let’s all do something amazing together. Let’s all be heroes together as we go about restoring and saving our nation.

The very life of American is in our hands. Let’s all stand up for our beloved America and be worthy of the name American

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Sources: http://www.businessinsider.com/facts-about-the-deficit-2010-3

Suzanne Eovaldi is a retired reporter and Journalism School Professor from the Chicago area now living in Port St. Lucie, Florida.

Yesterday’s Rasmussen Presidential Index had Obama at – 10

This day in history March 27
2002: Passover Massacre is carried out by a Palestinian suicide bomber. It killed 29 people having a Passover meal in Netanya Israel.

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Detroit is the future of America’s Democrat controlled cities.
Last week Michigan State Representative Rashida Tlieb and Monica Conyers, Detroit’s former City Council President, showed us the ugly face of doom for Detroit. After fifty years of unbroken Democrat control, Detroit is quickly dying.

The 32 year old Tlieb, whose biography says she is the oldest of 14 children born to Palestinian immigrants, had the nerve to offer a bill to extend Worker’s Compensation benefits to illegal aliens!

Tlaib whose name means “a person in need of something” in Arabic, the language of her heritage, represents the Southwest portion of Detroit, a city whose mayor and local newspaper say is suffering from third world like 50% unemployment.

How people can come to America and decide they know best how our tax money should be spent and doled out to people who have no business even being in this country, totally evades explanation. Rashida Tlieb is stabbing American workers in the back, but Detroit’s robotic voting Democrats will re-elect her anyway.

During the same week former City Council President Monica Conyers was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison following her admission of bribe receiving because she sold her vote on a city contract.

Conyers is represented by a lawyer supplied to her free of charge because she is “indigent” despite being married to John Conyers the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.

At her sentencing she yelled about “not be made a scapegoat” and “I don’t feel I should go to jail for something I didn’t do” despite her plea of guilty and the allocution of guilt that goes with such a motion. At the height of her rant Conyers added, “I may be guilty of extortion, but I never took a bribe.”

Is it any wonder Detroit is dying?

Conyers has vowed to file an appeal which is not going anywhere since her plea bargain included a waiver of appeal rights, but then why wouldn’t she? We the American tax payers will be footing the bills for her. People like Conyers steal and steal from cities like Detroit until their victims are bled white.

She and Tlieb have greased the skids of a major American population center. Could a Palestinian Islamist terrorist do any more damage to Detroit with a “dirty bomb?” Not likely. These Democrats give us a peek at what will soon be happening to other cities across the country that are head locked by Democrats.

What have you done to deserve your American freedoms yesterday? What will you do today and tomorrow?

Get active at your local level. Vote in every and any election, especially primaries. Stay engaged because we have much work to do if we are to save our country.

Use this site to contact your Congressional Representative:

https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml

Sources:

http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2010/03/workers_compensation_for_illeg.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/16/detroits-unemployment-rat_n_394559.html

http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2010/03/ex-detroit_councilwoman_monica_2.html

http://www.fd.org/odstbHOME.htm

Yesterday’s Rasmussen Presidential Index had Obama at – 18

This day in history March 17
1762: The first St. Patrick’s Day parade was held in New York City. It has been held each year since.

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This has got to be child abuse. A special education student running the schools?

Detroit school board president Otis Mathis can’t write in English. The man charged with educating the last 90,000 school kids left in the disappearing city can’t express himself in a simple Email.

Need proof?

Grab a red pencil and read this recent Email written by Mr. Mathis.
“If you saw Sunday’s Free Press that shown Robert Bobb the emergency financial manager for Detroit Public Schools, move Mark Twain to Boynton which have three times the number seats then students and was one of the reason’s he gave for closing school to many empty seats.”

His acknowledgement of difficulty composing a clearly written English paragraph is an understatement.

“[H]is communication issues.”

Mathis who was placed in a special education program in the fourth grade is a great example of Detroit’s refusal to recognize reality. Last January he was elected president of the school board by a margin of 10 to 1 over a University of Michigan academic officer.

That his graduation from Wayne State University was held up for TEN years because he couldn’t pass the required English proficiency test and had a 1.8 gpa in high school meant nothing. Mathis shouldn’t be able to teach a third grade class, let alone become the president of an entire school system. This outrage wouldn’t be tolerated anywhere else in America.

Damned either way

His colleagues call Mathis a good guy whose leadership skills are more important than his lack of qualifications. Nevertheless, herein lays the problem of trying to fix the Detroit school system. Anyone bright enough to be able to do the job is too bright to take the job. Since somebody – anybody- must be in the slot, for Detroit a former special education student will do.

Another Email
“Do DPS control the Foundation or outside group? If an outside group control the foundation, then what is DPS Board row with selection of is director? Our we mixing DPS and None DPS row’s, and who is the watch dog?”

When asked if he can read, a question no one would even think of asking the head of any other American school system, Mathis answered, “Yes, I can read. I’m capable of reading a lot of information and regurgitation…”

Today Detroit’s former City Council President Monica Conyers, wife of Congressman John Conyers, will be sentenced in federal court on her conviction for selling her vote on a city contract agreement. It’s the way things are done in Detroit. It’s the reason Detroit will not survive no matter how much the media Democrats and other liberals try to make believe it will.

What do you plan to do to save America from Obama’s Marxists?

Source:

http://www.detnews.com/article/20100304/OPINION03/3040437/

Yesterday’s Rasmussen Presidential Index had Obama at – 19

This day in history March 10
1804: The Louisiana Purchase which formally transferred the Louisiana Territory from France to the United States is signed and executed at a ceremony in St. Louis.

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