Detroit City Council Makes Fools Out of Themselves Again: Ingrates Demand Leno Do an Additional Free Show

What happens when you put undereducated people in charge of a major metropolitan area?

You get people wearing tiaras like they're fairy godmothers or princesses, one member of the group calling another "Shrek," the same member getting into physical confrontations with the media and with the police, and getting into arguments with school children over how she behaves in public.

This same person insulted someone else over their health and hearing aid, and called the kettle black when she said that the member she was insulting was "undereducated." And when she didn't get the type of hotel room that she wanted prior to the Democratic National Convention, she called 911 to solve the situation.

Welcome to the Detroit City Council. The council member in question above is the current President of the Council, Monica Conyers. On to more recent history:

Jay Leno decided to go out of his way to bring a little bit of comic relief to the Detroit area, and when he announced that his free show would be at the Palace of Auburn Hills, instead of organizing buses to transport people going to the show, City Council President Conyers and Council member Reeves brazenly demanded "Where's ours?" and phoned Leno to demand that he hold another show within the city of Detroit, and that it be free as well.

Would they like some cheese with all that whining? Little wonder that Detroit is in such a mess, and it has nothing to do with the economy either, despite the 22% unemployment rate. The tween twit in charge of the council really needs to crawl back into whatever hole she came out of and grow up for another twenty years. She's too incompetent to be in charge of Michigan's largest city.

Leno went along with it, scheduling the additional show during his vacation time. The theatrics of the Detroit City Council is an embarassment to the entire state, and not just to the people of Detroit.

Would the people of the city PLEASE turn these people out at the next election?

Conyers Says She's Ready to Lead Detroit City Council: I Think Not

President Pro Tempore Monica Conyers says she's ready to lead the Detroit City Council once Council President Ken Cockrel becomes acting Mayor of Detroit.

YEAH, RIGHT.





She called Cockran "Shrek" in the above exchange. She was more concerned about being disrespected and was extremely rude herself.

Her temper will get the best of her and she'll turn the city council meetings into a bigger farce than they are now. And that's assuming that she comes out of the FBI investigation of the council in the clear.

Here's more of her fine leadership qualities on display:

• Yesterday she ran away from the press after calling them "evil" and requested an escort past them.
• During the Democratic National Convention she called the Denver police to moderate a dispute between her, her staff and the hotel that she was staying at. Calling the police for something like THAT?
• She threatened to shoot one of outgoing Mayor Kilpatrick's aides at a pension meeting and then threatened to have her four brothers "whup his a$$."

She's promised to behave, but given the type of politics that goes on at the City Council meetings, will she be able to keep order and stay in order?