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Half of Detroit's Mayoral candidates are felons

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I just found this so pathetically funny and sad, had to share it.

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/ne...oral-candidates-felony-convictions/104244406/

Detroit — Half of the eight mayoral hopefuls on Detroit’s primary ballot next week have been convicted of felony crimes involving drugs, assault or weapons, a Detroit News analysis shows.

First-time contender Donna Marie Pitts, 58, has multiple felony convictions dating back to 1977, according to court records in Wayne and Oakland counties.

In 1977, Pitts was convicted of receiving and concealing a stolen 1977 Oldsmobile. She was sentenced to a year of probation.

A decade later, she was charged with two counts of assault with intent to murder and two firearm offenses in connection with two separate shooting incidents on March 24, 1987, Detroit Recorder’s Court records say.

According to transcripts, Pitts was involved in a shootout with the owner of a collision shop and auto clinic on Greenfield in Detroit in a dispute over a repair bill.

In court testimony, the shop owner said he fired about six shots at Pitts during the altercation and she fired at least two at him. She then rammed his vehicle before speeding away from the scene. The shop owner was not struck and called police.

In September 1987, a jury convicted Pitts of the lesser offense of assault with intent to do great bodily harm, less than murder, in the shooting involving the shop owner as well as a firearm offense. Jurors acquitted Pitts of charges connected to the incident involving the officer.

Pitts was sentenced to three to 10 years in prison, plus two additional years for the firearm offense. She served about four years and eight months and was paroled June 1, 1992, according to the Michigan Department of Corrections.

Pitts had another run-in with police in Troy in September 2000 when she was stopped in a residential neighborhood and arrested for fleeing and eluding and operating a vehicle without a license.

Pitts later pleaded guilty to not having an operator’s license and disobeying a police signal. She was placed on six months probation, which was discharged in September 2001.

Most recently, Pitts was convicted of firearm possession and carrying a concealed weapon under a March 2003 plea agreement stemming from a traffic stop in Dearborn Heights, Wayne County Circuit Court records show.

Pitts was stopped by police on Dec. 2, 2002, on Ford near Norborne for an improper plate and failure to wear a seat belt.

A .38 caliber handgun — which Pitts said belonged to her sister — was found on the front floor board of the truck. She was ordered to serve 40 to 60 months in prison in April 2003. She was paroled in August 2006, according to the Michigan Department of Corrections.

Pitts contends she’s been wronged by the courts and police, and she disputes many of the allegations in each criminal case, saying she was discriminated against.


I mean, c'mon Detroit, give her a chance! I mean sure, there was that 30 year long life of crime -- but that's all in the past now. Straight and narrow now, baby. Vote Pitts.

The full article also has info on the other three convicted felons running for Mayor of the Motor City. It is a jaw-dropping read.
 
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Why not? I'm more awake to address the other question. Was my wording not good? Fat guy, flexed his arm, bicep maybe the better term, and yelled "Detroit!" Why? I have no fucking clue. Just accept its weirdness and laugh. I never questioned it anyways.


You were supposed to say, "Chicken thigh."


You know what?
What?
Chicken Butt. You know why?
Why?
Chicken thigh.
 
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