Detroit s controversial charter revision plan, Proposal P, fails
With about 80%
67%
of voters were rejecting Proposal P, the wide-ranging plan that outlined a new process for the selection of the city s top attorney and police chief and would create a voter-installed fire department oversight board.
It called for the establishment of a department of disability affairs and department of environmental justice and sustainability as well as a task force on reparations and African American justice. It proposed an office of veterans affairs and immigrant affairs, and an office of economic justice and consumer empowerment.
The initiative was crafted over three years by an elected nine-member Detroit Charter Revision Commission with support from a coalition of environmental and human rights groups. The commission and coalitions that supported it contended the plan would have refocused city government with a greater emphasis on quality of life issues including affordable water
Ex-mayor s son a step closer to Detroit Council at-large seat
Detroit The son of the city s first African American mayor is leading a field of contenders in Tuesday s primary hoping to secure at-large seats on Detroit s City Council.
Coleman A. Young II, a former state senator and mayoral candidate, topped the field alongside incumbent City Councilwoman Janee Ayers, each pulling in about 31% of the vote Tuesday, with 81% of precincts reporting.
The two join former State Rep. Mary Waters and Nicole Smalls, a Detroit Charter Revision Commissioner and activist Jermain Lee Jones, in the race in which the top four candidates will advance to battle in November for two seats representing all of Detroit s neighborhoods.
by Allan Lengel Left: Duggan and his fiance at a Tuesday victory party at Good Vibes Lounge, on the east side. Right: An anti Prop P ad. (Photos: Allan Lengel, Violet Ikonomova) In a somewhat predictable municipal primary with just 14-percent turnout, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan scored an easy victory, with Anthony Adams, the former deputy mayor under Kwame Kilpatrick, coming in second. Tom Barrow, who ran for mayor for the fifth time, came in third, solidifying his title as a perrenial loser. Adams and Duggan will square off in November, in what will be an uphill battle for the former deputy mayor, who pulled in just 10 percent of the vote to Duggan s 73 percent.
Taylor State Rep. Alex Garza won Taylor s Tuesday mayoral primary election while City Council Chairman Tim Woolley advanced in the race to winnow the field for the November election and replace a criminally indicted mayor.
Garza, a second-term state lawmaker, won the primary in unofficial results with 35.5% of the vote, followed by Woolley with 22.1%, according to unofficial results released by the Taylor Clerk s office. Minister Jeff Jones was third with 21.8.%.
Mayor Rick Sollars, who is under indictment for federal bribery and wire fraud charges, appeared to lose after the unassigned write-in votes totaled 20.7%. The Wayne County Board of Canvassers is meeting Wednesday morning to certify the results and get the specific vote totals for write-in candidates.
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