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He said the city was unwilling or unable to collect the money it was rightfully owed. he said the police department seemed to him to be corrupt. several months into his tenure, michigan republicans souped up and made way more powerful the emergency manager law giving managers like michael stampler essentially unilateral control of their cities. the republicans' new version of the law, an emergency manager can rewrite contracts, strip all power from elected officials. the emergency manager can do anything they want pretty much without asking anybody else. pontiac, michael stampler, studies the ...

Something of a whistleblower about michigan's radical emergency manager law that does away with kwur right to vote. michael sampler gave a speech if in which he said it doesn't make sense to save the towns, by neutering and doing away with the means by which towns work and solve the problems. he says an emergency manager mutt work up to the democracy of town if the town survives after an emergency manager guy like him leaves. >> you turn the city back to sort of a void. they haven't been part of a process for all these years, and they weren't taken over by the state. and that just seems to be ...

Right to vote for your representatives at the local level. a speech was given in michigan last week in which he said it doesn't make sense to try to save these towns by rendering newt, by doing away with the means by which most towns are supposed to work and solve their problems. he says an emergency manager must work toward building up the social capital, building up the democracy of the town if the town's going to survive after an emergency manager guy like him leaves. >> you turn the city back to sort of a void. they haven't been part of the process for all these years. they've been taken o...

That's how that went. last year pontiac got a new emergency manager, who joked about himself as the tyrant in pontiac. he says he thinks pontiac is getting better and the city's troubles are almost over. he used to be the emergency manager in another michigan city. he left there in 2006. he said the books were balanced, mission accomplished, done and dusted. he took care of it. how have they held up since then. this is the newspaper today. the review quote, is the city facing a financial doomsday? answer, yes. quoting the acting city manager there. make no mistake we are at a doomsday scenario...

They named pontiac the car after pontiac the city back when they were still making them. general motors used to build trucks in pontiac, too. that's over now. they moved that work to indiana. the detroit lions used to play football in the pontiac silver dome. the lions left pontiac in the silver dome in 2002. this is pontiac now and frankly pontiac is broke. in 2009 the state took over pontiac and installed an emergency manager whose mission was to balance the books in that city. a few months into his tenure, they sold the pontiac silver dome to a guy from canada. in the mid 1970s the silver d...