(Source: Common Dreams, March 24, 2013)
DETROIT — Community and pro-democracy activists in Detroit have no intention of rolling over and playing dead for Kevyn Orr, the city’s new ’emergency manager’ appointed by Republican Gov. Rick Snyder, who will begin his contract to run the city as a one-person government on Monday.
Called a “bloodless coup” by some, the appointment of an ’emergency financial manager’ (EFM) will allow Orr to take full control over the city’s resources now that the city council and school board have been stripped of their governing powers.
Justified as a tool to ‘bring the city bank from the financial brink’ by its proponents, critics of Orr’s position say the whole reason for the emergency manager is to further gut the city by carving off public assets to the highest private bidder.
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