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untanglingwebs
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http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2015/05/city.html#incart_river

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No Flint mayor candidates, including Eric Mays, made deadline, city says

Ron Fonger | rfonger1@mlive.com By Ron Fonger | rfonger1@mlive.com
on May 04, 2015 at 10:18 AM, updated May 04, 2015 at 10:51 AM



FLINT, MI -- The city says the only mayoral candidate who filed petitions on time didn't have enough valid signatures to qualify for a spot on the ballot.

City spokesman Jason Lorenz said today, May 5, that 1st Ward Councilman Eric Mays turned in 852 valid signatures in advance of April 21, short of the 900 required for candidates.
•Related: Deadline snafu throws Flint mayoral election into chaos

No other candidate turned in any petitions by the April 21 deadline, city officials have said, potentially making the election for mayor an all-write-in competition.

Two City Council seats are also affected.

Flint's mayoral election was thrown into chaos after the city clerk's office told candidates for mayor and council that they had until April 28 to turn in nominating petitions. The deadline was actually April 21, according to the state.

Four candidates for mayor -- incumbent Mayor Dayne Walling, businesswoman Karen Weaver and councilmen Mays and Wantwaz Davis -- filed the required number of signatures on their petitions by April 28.

But the Michigan Secretary of State told the city in a letter that the despite its mistake, candidates who did not file enough petitions before April 21 cannot appear on the ballot.

As of Friday, it had appeared that Mays was the only candidate who might appear on the ballot, per the state's letter.

But Lorenz said today that a review of Mays' signatures showed he fell short of the 900 required.

Mays said that he wants to inspect the names on his petitions that have been ruled invalid but were turned in on time.

"Councilman Mays and his legal staff -- we want to look at that and see if we can find 48 (valid signatures) in there ... without (having to get) a court order," he said.

Mays said his campaign turned in 999 signatures to the clerk's office on April 6 and filed more signatures as they were collected.

City officials have said they will likely seek a court order to allow the four candidates who were certified by April 28 to appear on the August primary ballot.

State officials have said that if there aren't enough certified candidates for a primary election, then no primary will be held, meaning the November general election for Flint mayor could potentially be a write-in contest.
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Deadline looms for Flint to answer state on mayoral election mistake

Ron Fonger | rfonger1@mlive.com By Ron Fonger | rfonger1@mlive.com
on May 04, 2015 at 9:59 AM





FLINT, MI -- The city of Flint is facing a deadline of noon today, May 4, to tell the state its plans for the August and November elections after mistakenly telling candidates the wrong deadline to file nominating petitions.

City Administrator Natasha Henderson and City Attorney Peter Bade are scheduled to discuss the problem at a news conference this morning, Flint spokesman Jason Lorenz said.

The Michigan Secretary of State's Office has told Flint Clerk Inez Brown that her office gave candidates the wrong cutoff date for turning in nominating petitions -- April 28 instead of April 21, potentially knocking every candidate for mayor and two City Council seats off the primary ballot.

Christopher M. Thomas, director of elections for the state, said in an April 30 letter to Brown that "any candidates who did not file nominating petitions before 4 p.m. on April 21, 2015, are ineligible to have their names printed on the primary ballot."


1st Ward Councilman Eric Mays was the only candidate for any of the offices to file nominating petitions in advance of the April 21 deadline, but Lorenz said this morning that he only collected 852 valid signatures by the deadline -- less than the 900 needed.

Mays was among four candidates for mayor who were certified by the city clerk to have met the petition requirements by April 28.
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Terry Bankert

7 hrs
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Ex Ombudsman/Ex City Clerk says Flint Write-in November 2015 Elections are Divine Intervention.

The Citizens of Flint Neighborhoods now have a level playing field to take the leadership back from the “Downtown Politicians “ like Dayne Walling.

Walling used the term setback referencing a write-in only election. The only setback is for him.

The Downtown Interest were banking on continuing their control of Flint by financing a Mayoral Campaign focused on Big Money Buying Media with a political foundation of elite organizational endorsement.

This would compensate Walling's lack of a community following and an inability to put volunteers in the neighborhoods.

A traditional campaign would allow his victory.

The Campaign for Mayor of Flint is no longer a traditional campaign, big money and big media campaign will not win it.

A write-in campaign depends on people, lots of them working for their candidate on the doorstep, in the neighborhoods explaining the write in process.

A significant very personal one on one educational effort must be made about the write in process while at the same time promoting the values of your candidate.

Walling cannot sell his political goods,one on one.

Walling has no ability to engage the community in the neighborhoods.

Walling is reliant on a friendly media, and a big money campaign.

I suggest that this campaign is not limited to those who took out petitions.

Any registered voted in Flint can file the Intent Statement . Imagine 200 people file their intent. The media will have no ability to crush Walling opponents by their news coverage.

We must keep the accountability pressure squarely on Walling.

Quietly we will build and army, select a general and take back Flint CIty Hall.

By Terry Bankert
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Topic: Why Flint cannot trust their media
* Note: The media once again will focus on every small thing Walling does (already started) The other candidates will have to make their voices heard. Plus, only the downtown groups vision on a new city will be heard.


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The Journal has their opinion and I have mine. I have been told that Walling and Eason want me off the internet and have sought the advice of an attorney to no avail.
In my opinion Walling is using the media, especially Channel 12 and the Journal, as the bearers of his campaign rhetoric. While I don't like either candidate, Buchanan should at least get as much coverage on the issues.

The editorial on the 8th appears to be a reaction to the vision of Dan Kildee I recently posted on Flint Talk. KIlldee with his former research branch, the Genesee Institute, performed extensive research and offered solutions that were specific to Flint. Walling was a part of this research organization when he first ran, but I saw no research documents bearing his name.

There is too much literature out there on shrinking cities for the Journal editorial board to put all the future on a master plan. Many groups, such as Kettering, downtown, Hurley and U of M have created plans and some of these plans were outdated within months. Will this master plan take areas of the greatest decline out of service so to speak. Will the city continue to provide services to areas with no houses to pay for these services?


None of the media initially told the truth about what happened at Back to the Bricks.
The media is not telling the public about the problems at Smith Village although the Journal gets copies of the new law suits.

It is an election year and the Journal appears to be using an editorial board to promote Walling. Can we expect a pro Walling editorial once a week until the election. Kildee understood the issues of a shrinking city and Walling, despite the editorial board support, does not.

In the September 4th editorial, the editorial board is not looking at the abuses of the Walling administration and their role, as well as council's in the overspending of the budget. The council has implemented a monthly budget- to- actual to keep check of the budget. And yet as Freeman keeps telling his cohorts, spending resolutions keep coming with items purchased from line items with no funding or departments spending many times over what they spent in previous years in one line item.

What about the DCED and the federal government debacle that is ensuing. I read the same reports as the Journal and it is clear the Journal writer does not understand the issues HUD raises. To continually paint this picture of everything will be fine if we all support Walling is ludicrous.






Torn From the Front Page: Flint and its people begin to tackle new topographic of a smaller city
Published: Thursday, September 08, 2011, 5:38 AM
By Editorial Board | The Flint Journal The Flint Journal

The city of Flint needs a new map.

It’ll have downtown, a lot of the same streets and many neighborhoods that are still largely intact.

But it won’t have the giant industrial complex of General Motors factories that built this city, and probably not a lot of what have become known as America’s emptiest neighborhoods.

While city officials and community leaders have been vehement in their refusal to “give up” on any part of Flint, the new topography of the city is already becoming known.

Large tracts are abandoned; if the people still living in those areas are fortunate, demolition crews have already been through to mow down the eyesores, the dilapidated houses and buildings that become magnets for trouble and havens for prostitutes, drug dealers and gangs.

The new master plan that city officials are drafting for the first time since 1965 will re-map a Flint that residents who lived here during its heyday may never have imagined.

Flint needs the honest introspection of that process — the admission of what the city has become, and the planning of what it can be.

Call it a re-mapping, then, if other terms are more offensive.

City politicians and community leaders shrank in horror from the term “shrinking cities” that former county Treasurer and Genesee County Land Bank Executive Director Dan Kildee used several years ago to describe a concept of former neighborhoods given up to sparsely populated green areas.

“We’ll never give up on any part of Flint” was the sort of refrain we heard back then.
That was even as parts of Flint already had been given up by the people who had abandoned their property and let it fall back to the banks in mortgage foreclosures, or to the Land Bank in tax foreclosures.

Now, the transformation of Flint is already taking root in some places.

Churches such as Metropolitan Baptist Tabernacle on East Myrtle Avenue are taking ownership of many neighboring properties, and taking care of many more vacant parcels as part of the Land Bank’s Clean and Green program.

But the efforts in Flint’s emptiest areas also look forward to a new vitality amid all that green space. The North Flint Reinvestment Corp. was formed to revitalize the area.

They’re investing hope in neighborhoods of the city that feel left out of Flint’s renaissance downtown. And they are adjusting to the new realities of a city half the size it was when 30,000 workers a day toiled around the clock at the fabled Buick City factory complex.

Our leaders and neighbors who cringe when anyone talks about “right-sizing” the city fail to recognize the truth: It already is happening. In fact, it’s occurring all over Michigan and the Midwest, as Kildee, now president of the national nonprofit Center for Community Progress, points out.

North of Flint, the city of Saginaw has mapped a Green Zone that already is almost empty. To the south, Detroit counts a third of its property as abandoned or otherwise empty by some accounts. There, the talk is of green spaces and urban agriculture in a less-populated city. Cleveland, Ohio’s poster child for building abandonment and population loss, is undergoing the same metamorphosis.

Flint is not alone. In many ways, it is in fact leading the way. The urban agriculture movement that is spreading its seeds across these cities got some of its first harvests in the vacant lots of Flint. City Hall this summer embraced that new land use when it partnered with Michigan State University to develop a strategic plan for urban agriculture.

Here is where the debate over the now abhorrent term of “shrinking” a city began.
Other cities picked up ideas that were born here and are running with them, because they make sense, and they work.

Flint officials finally are beyond their early denial that the city is smaller. It’s something to celebrate when they talk, as Mayor Dayne Walling recently had, of writing new land uses, new ideas, into the city’s new master plan.

It’s a recognition that the city isn’t what it was, and never will return to those days. It will be something else — with a lot more open space, a lot fewer people and, with the right planning and some luck, just as prosperous as the good old days.

The new map of Flint should reflect that landscape and accommodate future shifts in the urban topographies of people and place.

That’s what good maps do. They show the lay of the land and help navigate the way ahead.




Our Voice: Flint officials, employees must agree to work together on financial solutions that state review likely will require
Published: Sunday, September 04, 2011, 5:40 AM
By Editorial Board | The Flint Journal The Flint Journal


On Monday, Flint began wearing the thorny distinction as the first city in the state to undergo a state review of its finances under the new version of Michigan’s Local Government and School District Fiscal Accountability Act.

That 30-day review could result in another state takeover of the city with an emergency manager.

Flint city officials, however, should work together to ensure that the review ends short of that drastic act.

If reviewers ordered in by state Treasurer Andy Dillon find that the city is in financial distress, the best possible scenario would have Mayor Dayne Walling and the Flint City Council enter into a consent agreement with the state. Under the new law, that would leave one local official in charge of turning around the city’s financial picture, rather than some outside appointee of the governor’s.

Walling last May argued that he’d be the best local official for that consent agreement role. We agreed then and still do.

But it’s far from certain that the entire City Council also would agree to Walling alone shouldering the power to rearrange city finances and dictate the terms of long-unfinished labor pacts among four public safety unions.

In fact, Walling in May was planning to ask City Council for a joint request to the state treasurer for a financial review. He yanked that proposal from consideration without explanation before the council met.

Now, it’s the state demanding the review. Walling said he was told it’s mainly triggered under the law by Flint’s chronic pattern of past, present and projected future budget deficits.

Looking at the numbers, it’s unlikely that state reviewers will come away declaring everything A-OK with Flint’s finances.

Property tax revenue has plummeted. State revenue sharing payments have been cut for Flint and all municipalities. Four city employee unions still had not agreed to 15 percent compensation cuts that Walling has said are needed to balance the city’s budget.

Last winter, city officials asked the state for permission to issue $20 million in emergency finance bonds to cover present and expected deficits. State officials OK’d only $8 million for this year; City Council has discussed asking for permission to issue another $12 million.

Without more money, or without all employee unions agreeing to concessions, Flint is in desperate financial straits.

Further layoffs in the largest employee groups of fire and police are off the table, Walling said this spring.

The city simply can’t stand to lose any more police officers or firefighters when it’s under siege by high crime and arsonists.

We urge those unions that have not agreed to the needed concessions to do so.

It’s either that or wait until a local financial manager named by the state orders the concessions, or worse, an outside state appointee eliminates collective bargaining altogether.

Clearly, it’s time for the mayor and the City Council to find common ground and work together toward a consent agreement with the state. And for city employees and Flint residents to get behind them.

The collapse of our once-roaring automating economy caused this crisis. The spending habits and combative legal strategies of past city councils and administrations compounded the bankbook imbalance.

The city employees who are left after waves of layoffs and the city leaders now in place did not precipitate this rainy day for the city of Flint. But it is up to them to part the clouds and end the yearslong storm of deficits and bad news.

All of them — employees, union leaders, City Council members, the mayor and his administration — must work together in what in all likelihood will become the first test for a municipality under the new Fiscal Accountability Act.

If they do, Flint is going to come out of this all right.

If not, that law has further steps for uncooperative local governments, up to and including state receivership, an emergency manager who may terminate collective bargaining agreements and eliminate local government, even bankruptcy.

That worst-case scenario cannot be allowed to happen.

And it won’t, if everyone at City Hall or working for City Hall agrees to save the city of Flint.


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Michigan legislators trying to fix Flint's mayoral election meltdown ...

3 days ago ... The Michigan Legislature is being asked to undo a Flint election ... Jim Ananich,
D-Flint, would give Secretary of State Ruth Johnson the ...

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Got a call last night from a politically savvy African American female. She is my sounding board for many of the issues I need a second view on. Her wise counsel keeps me from many a snafu.

It appears that Karen Williams Weaver is refusing to debate the other candidates on the AC Dumas radio show. A many of you are aware, I follow AC Dumas on Facebook and appreciate his insight. Her refusal has prompted doubts that she is not ready for political office. There is also questions about what her advisors and her campaign manager Charles Winfrey are telling her and some concerns that she has poor advice.

Also, there is a continuing demand among some of her supporters that she cut her ties with the local NAACP. Some politicians express a deep concern that her association with the Gilchreasts and the NAACP will impede and even derail her political aspirations. The local NAACP has been taken over by the National chapter NAACP for irregularities.
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Fears are that the end results will mean a final race between Mays and Walling. Is that the reason for Giggles the Pig?
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Flint Councilman Eric Mays files lawsuit over mayoral election


State Sen. Jim Ananich (video)

State Sen. Jim Ananich talks about why he's introduced a bill to allow for the names of candidates to appear on the August primary ballot.



Ron Fonger | rfonger1@mlive.com By Ron Fonger | rfonger1@mlive.com
on May 15, 2015 at 12:55 PM, updated May 15, 2015 at 2:56 PM


FLINT, MI -- City Councilman Eric Mays is asking a judge to help him determine whether he should be the only candidate on the August primary ballot for mayor.

Mays filed a lawsuit Thursday, May 14, against City Clerk Inez Brown, asking the court to issue an order allowing him or a judge to examine petition signatures that were found to be invalid by the city.

Mays was the only candidate for Flint mayor who filed nominating petitions before April 21. A mistake by the clerk's office resulted in candidates being told in error that the deadline was April 28.

For a time, it appeared Mays might be the only candidate on the ballot, but Brown's office later determined only 852 of the signatures he turned in by April 21 were from registered city voters, leaving him 48 short of the 900 he needed to secure a spot on the primary ballot.

Three other candidates filed qualifying petitions after the April 21 deadline, and Mays filed additional signatures after the deadline as well, after Brown's office gave them the incorrect deadline filing date of April 28.

The state Legislature is considering two bills currently that are designed to allow the Flint primary election to go forward with Mays, incumbent Dayne Walling, city Councilman Wantwaz Davis and businesswoman Karen Weaver all on the August ballot.

Brown's office determined each of those candidates filed 900 or more valid petition signatures by April 28.

The two top vote-getters in the primary election would face off in the November general election if the state law changes.

Mays said he's trying to protect his rights even though a change in the law would put his name on the primary ballot with his competitors.

"I'll cross that bridge when I come to it," Mays said of the potential for such a change. "Maybe the state moved too quickly" to amend the law before his petitions are rechecked.

City Attorney Pete Bade would not comment on the lawsuit, and said "the city clerk has not been properly served with the lawsuit."

Brown has declined to comment on any issue related to the election since the Secretary of State's Office told her in an April 30 letter that no candidates could appear on the primary ballot who did not file 900 or more valid petition signatures by April 21.
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Judge orders Flint clerk to re-check mayoral candidate Eric Mays' invalidated signatures


Ron Fonger | rfonger1@mlive.com By Ron Fonger | rfonger1@mlive.com
on May 18, 2015 at 5:17 PM, updated May 18, 2015 at 8:50 PM



FLINT, MI -- A judge is directing Flint Clerk Inez Brown to work with mayoral candidate and City Councilman Eric Mays to ensure every valid signature on his nominating petitions was counted.

Genesee Circuit Judge Archie L. Hayman issued the order Friday, May 15, in response to a lawsuit filed by Mays against the clerk.

Mays asked the court to help him determine whether he should be the only candidate on the August primary ballot for mayor because he alone submitted the required number of nominating petition signatures by the April 21 deadline.

The problem for Mays came when Brown's office later determined only 852 of the signatures he turned in by April 21 were from registered city voters, leaving him 48 short of the 900 he needed to secure a spot on the primary ballot.

Three other candidates as well as Mays eventually filed enough qualifying petitions after the April 21 deadline to qualify for a spot on the primary ballot.

A mistake by the clerk's office resulted in candidates having been told in error that the petition deadline was April 28. City and state officials areattempting to change state law to allow all four to appear on the ballot.

Mays said he believes some of the signatures on his petitions are valid but were not counted by the city clerk and wants to determine whether he's qualified for ballot with or without a change in the law.

City Attorney Peter Bade said city officials will comply with the judge's order.

Although the city had provided Mays with the names of those signatures ruled to be invalid last week, Hayman's order says Mays and Brown should inspect the petitions at a mutually agreed on time and date with witnesses present for both.

"To the extent that the parties can agree that certain invalidated signatures should have been validated, the parties shall agree," Hayman's order says. "To the extent that they cannot agree, the parties shall submit the remaining invalidated signatures to this Court for its inspection prior to (a) June 1, 2015 hearing."

Ron Fonger is a reporter for MLive-Flint Journal. Contact him at rfonger1@mlive.com or 810-347-9963. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook or Google
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Michigan State News Updated 05/21/15


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(Capitol-Flint City Clerk Apology)
Flint City Clerk Inez Brown was in the hot seat in Lansing yesterday (Tue) answering lawmakers questions about a mistake made that has kept the city's mayoral candidates off the ballot.
Brown told the House Elections Committee the error was made by a worker in her office resulting in candidates getting the wrong state filing deadline date. But, Brown says, as city clerk, she takes full responsibility.
The committee is now considering a Senate passed bill that would temporarily extend the deadline for the city to allow candidates on the ballot. However, committee charwoman, House Republican Lisa Posthumus-Lyons says she first expects changes to the bill to "establish accountability" for the mistake.
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How do the various political bodies involved get along with one another? There should be a shared vision for future growth and it should cross jurisdictional boundaries. There also needs to be respect for one another.

I bring this up as I am getting reports of Flint residents and politicians angry at Genesee County Clerk John Gleason for asking to be on the Lansing agenda and denouncing Flint Clerk Inez brown.

The County Commission has gutted various offices within the county until they cannot function properly. Gleason, Treasure Deb Cherry, and former Register of Deeds Rose Bogardus have all had lawsuits against the commission and personnel issues played a role in these lawsuits. In the past Prosecutor Leyton and former Clerk Carr considered lawsuits because the cuts compromised their ability to carry out mandated functions.

Flint too has gutted offices such as the City Clerks. Brown has lost about ( 8 ) eight employees, yet the remaining employees have to perform the same tasks as before.
However, as departments struggle to meet the demands of their charter and state obligations, there is the hiring of those alleged to be cronies or friends of cronies.
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I just read on Facebook an attorney's account of the Eric Mays hearing in Judge Hayman's court on the ballot issue. Mays attempted to amend his case and then asked for more time.

His argument appears to be "his signature count is wrong because his supporters might know where they live (incomplete ballot signatures?)"

Remember when the Jackie Poplar recall signatures were tossed out because the petition worker filled in the dates?

Hayman tossed the case! 39 short
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