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untanglingwebs
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Former 5th Ward councilman Matt Taylor was a spokesperson for the recall group Citizens United for Better Government commented on the Winfrey article saying "He's using it for political reasons for the Mayor."
It has been said the recall divided the Black community by pitting Black against Black. Some members of the recall believed the deficit would continue to grow under if Stanley remained in office.
The Reverend J. S. Hopkins(deceased) was the Chairman of the Courier and he told the Journal that while not everyone agreed with Winfrey, he felt it as healthy to have a different view.
(This was the same three member Board that I went after one of their employees threatened me. Their response was that I had their permission to hit her back) |
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Sun Dec 02, 2018 6:45 pm |
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untanglingwebs
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Activist, former Mayoral candidate, and media consultant is a frequent go-to person for local media on political issues. Riddle called this new role of Winfrey "a savvy move that helps Stanley rehabilitate his religious base in the Black community. However he also told the Journal that an attack against Brown was a tactical error as she has a strong reputation in the Black community.
"The mayor has certainly been vilified and damaged by the local media to the extent they have to fight back, so they put their prime-time communicator (in) and he will impact public opinion" was Riddle's opinion.
Sixth Ward councilman Mark Horrigan complained that the "Courier is rife with inaccuracies." He added that "what it "the Courier) really is is a venue for Charles Winfrey to defend his former boss."
Horrigan objected to a November article alleging a low Black turnout meant that Horrigan rather than Sheldon Neeley won the seat.
"Does Charles Winfrey judge me solely by the color of my skin"
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Sun Dec 02, 2018 7:11 pm |
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untanglingwebs
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| Winfrey told Machniack how he didn't care about what Horrigan said. It was Winfrey's opinion that on general racial issues the mainstream media failed to cover blacks fairly and the paper wanted to portray African Americans positively. |
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Sun Dec 02, 2018 7:21 pm |
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untanglingwebs
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From a 2017 post:
By October 28, 2001 Flint Journal reporter Christopher Machniak, was writing how Stanley's legal battles had cost the city $125,654.84 at a time when city deficits were rising.WNEM's Jim Kiertzner was a thorn in the back of Stanley. The City held a press conference on the site of Michigan School for the Deaf when the state was offering part of the site for a fire station. This site is now the site of the new Powers high School. A clash between the Mayor and the hard hitting reporter led to allegation the Mayors car rushed the camera man.
Stanley then began blocking WNEM from press conferences. Stanley asked the Courts for a PPO against Kiertzner and his cameraman. WNEM Tv 5 won the case and the Judge ordered the City to pay $7,170 to the station for their legal fees.
Post Fri Mar 24, 2017 9:49 am
untanglingwebs
WNEM sued Stanley for not notifying them of Flint press conferences and won. The City paid $36,695.00 in the two lawsuits, which includes the legal fees of WNEM.
Council would not approve the 2000 budget as presented by the Stanley administration. Believing the budget projections for revenue were not correct, they revised the budget. Stanley sued the council.
Council hired an auditing firm and found a phantom $10 million in revenue. The council spent a total of $33, 703 for monitoring and fighting the budget battle. Council had a hearing in September to investigate the mayor's handling of budgetary and financial matters. The cost of the hearing, including legal advice for both council and the mayor, cost another $16,863. A community based financial task force put forth recommendations, most of which were accepted by both sides |
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