Alexis Pray

Alexis Wiley
Chief of Staff City of Detroit

Labor Day, I went to the parade for the Unions down in Detroit. Other than walking a couple of country miles, I was not very impressed and regretted going after I got there. Representative Brenda Lawrence, my U.S. Representative in Pontiac, was hosting a walk. It was poorly organized, ill-attended and lacked the enthusiasm of her constituency. She showed up and saw me and the look on her face showed me that I clearly wasn't welcome. She's going to reel in this condemnation by me, because she doesn't want anything to do with me. I can just imagine that she was involved in some kind of illegal happens in Southfield when she was the Mayor there. While in jail, I learned a lot about the city that sits on the edge of Detroit. She has a reason to run. I don't know if you read my blog on Reverend Wendell Anthony and about his ill-mannered food-fest. It called "NAACP...I gotta go". We were at a State Black Caucus event. All the Black folk filed in to kiss his ring. The "Powerful Oz." Note the period at the end. I like to remind people that the police knows everybody's business. Snitches march into police interrogation rooms every day and snitch. They tell the police, everything they want to know, but there are laws that they must abide by. They can't just knock down folk doors, because Pookie 'nem said they got a lot of drugs. There is a process, but know that they already know. That goes for Mayors with dirty hands, Presidents with drug habits and newswomen that get caught with their pants down. 

Brenda Lawrence ignoring me, when I asked for a picture

At one point everyone came over to take pictures. That included Alexis Wiley and her boss, Mayor Mike Duggan. All the publicity hounds ran over to get in the picture. I digressed and stood against the light post. I knew that I didn't want to be involved in a photo with Mike Duggan, Mayor, and his minion Alexis Wiley. She shouldn't know who I am, but them again, neither should Brenda Lawrence. I know that I was standing on the sidewalk and looked up, and there she was. I froze, because was coming through, shaking hands and handing out smiles. Knowing that I shouldn't keep company with her, I retreated to the light post. Once, Rep. Lawrence arrived, here comes "Your Honor, Mikey boy". See, Duggan got Wiley from Huel Perkins at Fox 2 News. I shouldn't be spreading rumors, but like I said, the police know everything. While I was incarcerated, I was writing Huel Perkins about my situation. I wrote him every week. I wrote a blog about him, too. it's called "Huel Perkins: Help me!" The deputies usually read receiver's address on the outgoing mail. So, a couple of deputies stood over me while I was out on a bench for something or the other and had a conversation. It was about Huel Perkins and ended with one of the men stating, "Yeah, he's the one going with that Alexis Wiley?" My eyes bugged out! Fox 2 Detroit was the only news channel we got. Fox 2, was the only channel we watched, channels 4 and 7 didn't work. 

I know why now. Fox is a Conservative channel, Bouchard and Patterson are both Republicans. All the prostitution and crap going on in that jail! They will do whatever it takes to protect their good name. That is evident in the way they treat Trump, who is an obvious trainwreck. They had a perfectly good newsman, Shepard Smith, quit, because he couldn't take it anymore. They were scared that Perkins would somehow try and help me, because he is Black. They don't trust us, because they know we can't trust them. White men protect their women, and they assumed that Perkins would try to help me. "You only see in other what you see in yourself". That goes for goodness and badness, because I never thought that all my letters to him were falling on deaf ears. I thought that he was taking my pain to heart. I thought he read my letters and wanted to do something to stop my suffering. Nope, he was one of them. When I told everyone that he was fine, I think he believed that I was interested in him for more that just help. I was on a Facebook post, about Wiley deleting emails. I told you they troll me, and two men all at once told me that I wanted to be Wiley. I wanted to be his mistress, or I wanted to be one of his mistresses. I want to be neither. I wrote him 20+ letters, and not one time did I mention his looks, sex or anything about a relationship. The reasons those deputies spoke so freely, is that I don't do other folk husbands. They knew that it would change the way I'd see him and force me to stop writing him. I did not and had faith he wasn't the man they said he was.

Newsman Murray Feldman

I just watched them and looked for clues. Then there was the big shake-up at Fox 2 Detroit. People were retired and fired and Huel stayed afloat. Murray Feldman was out and Huel was in. Then they began to move up people that were likeable, like Roop Raj. I don't know if this is true, but Deena Centofanti push Jackie Paige out. Cam Carmen left and there was a whole slew of them that still have dinner and hangout. Centofanti husband is Creative Producer at Fox 2. So, she keeps her job, while other bright and effective newscasters are let go. All Fox 2 News rejects and some of my favorite people. Deena Centofanti had her nerves to do a special report on the struggles that Jackie Paige had. I knew that if anyone in that newsroom made her feel less-than, it was that Deena Centofanti. She wished that she could get Maurielle Lue out. When she got that spot on national television on the "Steve Harvey Show", Deena and Ryan Armanni gave her the worst time; jealous. But Deena gave Charles Pugh a hard time, too. You know where he is today! Maurielle Lue has a outstanding record. She began in Atlanta as a little newscaster when she was 16-years old. She has a Lue-Crew. People who love and admire her. Deena actually tried to replicate her fan club! Then, she moved to Cleveland during Lebron's wonder years. She is a force, and gorgeous, too. I notice that Huel Perkins is at every function, every party and such. He cried on air, when Sherry Margolis husband died. He's the friend to all, and slick! I wrote Charlie LeDuff a message on Facebook, and asked him did he hear about Wiley and Perkins. He never got back to me. Some people were congratulating him on his new podcast and someone mentioned Huel Perkins and he gave him kudos. A fan of Charlie's I couldn't believe that Perkins wasn't happy to see him go!

I wrote:  Yeah, I'm sure when you were thinking about leaving or being pushed out, he took you to lunch and had a talk with you. Told you that you were making the best choice for you and your career."

Charlie LeDuff did a series of reports on Mayor Mike Duggan and bid rigging. The same offence that got Kwame Kilpatrick 28-years in prison. Charlie went to the office of these men that were charging the city twice the amounts for tearing down houses in Detroit. He uncovered emails between the men, and paperwork that proved they were charging more to tear down the blight in Detroit. I wrote a blog on that, too. It's called, "Mike Duggan - Mayor of Detroit", and it highlights his ability to do the same things that Kwame Kilpatrick did, but get away with it. Yesterday, having to had too explain away why Alexis Wiley order emails deleted was done, he was at Wayne State. He and Gretchen Whitmer announced that the university was offering free tuition to 2020 graduates. Something that he probably had nothing to do with initiating, but he was there. He had on a Wayne State University t-shirt like everything was fine. Something Kilpatrick wasn't good at, "Faking the Funk". Kilpatrick just wasn't phony and didn't believe that his people wanted him to be. He didn't know how to play "nice". He knew too much, and that was obvious when he got out and started living a lavish lifestyle with rich men money. Do you think that Mayor Mike Duggan turned down all that money? NO! He's better than that, he cook the books better, hide his dirt better and can put on a million dollar smile better than Kwame could on cue. Charlie LeDuff didn't fall for it, and he thought the people of Detroit deserve better.

But Mike Duggan had taken in Perkins' mistress. Gave her a job and got her out of his hair. She was walking around like she was the "work wife". Shooing people away from his desk, giving women the evil eye, and being just a real headache all together. She was going to lose him his job and his wife and the good name that he thought he had so cleverly crafted. Robert Carmack called me one day. I sent him a letter asking him if he had ever heard about my case, telling him to be careful. He started asking me to "go out" and talk. I said, "We can talk about this over lunch or something. Sure..." He's sure that he's going to get off. He had called me back on accident, and he hasn't called back since. I'm surely not calling him, because it hasn't been found out if he is a thief or not. He skipped around his own case, which caused me alarm. If your not doing thing illegal, why call me and skate over the issues. I really don't know where he was coming from. He's the one that brought to the forefront the fact that Mayor Mike Duggan was having an affair with that doctor. The one with the number one child mortality rate program in the country. I'm sure it is, after you threw all that money into it for sex. I really can't believe women that use their bodies for financial gain. In the words of NeNe Leakes, "You can never win when you play dirty..." He even thought his marriage was going to survive his infidelity. Hillary's are few and far between these days. Tasha Smith told Wendy Williams on her show, "We gone talk after this is over." In a few days, Wendy filed for divorce. Women aren't taking that kind of mess anymore.

I wrote and asked ML Elrick about it, too. I wondered if it was true. He never got back to me, and I wondered if he asked Perkins about it. I also wonder how his job is going these days. I don't watch Fox News Detroit, anymore. It's obvious that Fox 2 Detroit has a line to the Mayor's Office, because Fanchon Stinger lost her job in the Kwame Kilpatrick mess. Synagro a company out of Texas won a $47 million dollar bid from the city of Detroit (AP, 2009). She claims not to be their consultant and it was all on her then boyfriend that have her bad credit. A man with close ties to the Kilpatrick's. Now, I'm watching television and there is Alexis Wiley at a party for the Fire Union Treasurer. A woman that is being investigated for embezzlement. She just can't seem to keep herself out of the controversy. This whole thing screams a racket to me. I hate to mention this, but Ron Savage, may he rest in peace, did not like me. I had seen him at OCC back in the day. After my bid in the jail, he was curt towards me. I wondered why he had changed so drastically. I want to know how these people know me on sight. But after his death, I learned that he was close to the police in Walled Lake, Waterford and the Oakland County Sheriff's Department. 

Mayor Mike Duggan and his suspected mistress
Dr. Sonia Hassan

I have never seen Alexis Wiley and Huel Perkins having sex. I've never seen Mayor Mike Duggan, and Dr. Hassan have sex. I do know Duggan's wife is divorcing him. I know that he gave Dr. Hassan's organization money that could have been given to someone that he hasn't been connected with romantically. Kwame Kilpatrick was tried in the "court of public opinion". They showed a slew of text messages that showed he had an affair. Then the bid rigging with his sister's husband. My aunt  and I, took my sister's ex-husband home one day. We jumped on the freeway and she took me deeper into the Westside. She lives off Seven Mile and Telegraph. We went further down the road. What I saw was horrible. Houses, six or seven in a row falling apart. Houses, some of them burnt out, neighborhood fit for complete demolition. I mean they could create a whole other world with one fell swoop of a bulldozer. All the work that has been done downtown is nothing, until he can help the people that need help the most. All those businesses and construction in Midtown and Corktown does nothing for the people. The Mayor and Huel Perkins using city funds for their own personal use is insane. I know 10 women off the top of my head that are more articulate, charismatic and classier than Alexis Wiley. She's not even from Detroit, and was born in raised in Los Angeles. That means she was raised in Compton or South Central (joking). With people like her, you will never know.

The Kilpatricks

With the price of tearing houses down is more than twice as much, fewer homes will be torn down. All these new ordinances and paperwork is stifling the progress, too. These men are robbing the city blind. When they clear a city block, Mayor Mike Duggan will show up in a hard hat, take the credit and leave. On his way to create another fallacy of decency and hard work. All these men and women are unscrupulous. This is another drama played out on television, only Duggan is smart. He's not going to leave a paper-trail and ordered those emails deleted. After Kilpatrick, lovers no longer create sexy emails talking about people that are getting on their nerves. With all the new technology, however, men like Robert Carmack can hire a private investigator that can get footage using his cell phone. There is no mistaking Mayor Duggan leaving Dr. Hassan's house. Entering with a remote control programed for her garage door. There is footage of Huel Perkins and Alexis Wiley flirting on "Let it Rip", but I can't seem to find it. She used to be a guest from time-to-time. I pray that the elected officials in Michigan begin to repent. I pray that Alexis Wiley's husband and Huel Perkins' wife sleep well. I saw photos of Wiley's wedding and the Mrs. Perkins was in attendance. I would be so angry. They've been together a long time, hopefully she is a Hillary and subject to forgive. Carlita Kilpatrick forgave Kwame, but couldn't wait 28-years and divorced him in 2018. 

Sometimes life is a long road, and only the strong survive. Your chances of survival are high, when you play with clean hands. To play with dirty one, just muddy the water and won't allow you to see your way clearly. I know who saw it clear from the beginning, that Charlie LeDuff. I admire a man unafraid to tell the truth, and pee in the bushes when he has to go. Those people that appear to be perfect are never really perfect, but are hiding secrets. It's insane to think that anything is ever perfect, but we all need a little work sometimes. To pick on people and single some out for extinction is mean. Sometimes, people need to be taken to the woodshed and never brought back. Somethings just can't be forgiven. Duggan "The Great White Hope", has failed the city. For this, we could have kept Kilpatrick. They ran him in the ground worse than the Democrats do Trump. I know Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo's only business, everyday is to tear Trump down. The Obsession is scary to me. It was the same with Kilpatrick, until they brought him down. I wonder who is going to have the courage to bring these men down. The Mayor and the Media...News at 11 on the edge. I bet Charlie'll get 'em.

Jason Carr is no longer there and has a new gig on Channel 4, WDIV...

Associated Press. (2009). Former TV news anchor, Fanchon Stinger, speaks out on FBI       probe. https://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/2009/12/former_tv_news_anchor_fanchon_1.html

Overall...Chris Berak should be Insane!

Christopher Berak

At this point, I just want to know where our government is. I mean, I am censored on Facebook. I can not post my blog on any post on that social media network. If my blog appears, they have people that immediately report it. Then Facebook claims that it goes against their "Community Standards". They claim that I'm making erroneous claims about someone. Namely doctors that have sex with their patients and Chief of Police that launder money and pimp inmates. Let me say that I have never been sued. I've been asked by Walsh College to take down my blog about their fake PhD's and professors that lack the credentials to teach. I am no longer a student at Walsh, and I reverted that post back to the internet. I make various judgements that I use the terms, "In my opinion". It seems that my opinion is pretty spot on. I've created over 250 blogs over the last 10-years, and I have never been told that I was lying. These are my experiences, and I have a right to tell my story the way I see it. This is based on my life and the things that I have been through and things that have been done to me. I have every right to voice my opinion and more importantly, tell my story. 

Oakland County Jail is a great big whorehouse. I have said this over and over, again, since 2013. I was released from there, after being acquitted of an "Aggravated Stalking" case. The then Chief of Police, said that I was stalking him, because I took him some soup. We had been friends in the past and had dinner and he had brought me flowers. The 30th anniversary of that was this weekend, Sweetest Day. He denied all that and brought me up on a charge and I went to jail. After not being able to secure a tether. The tether people, who are also pimps, took my mother last $100 on an old bill. While in jail, I discovered that the deputies were running a prostitution ring out the jail's clinic. They also had sex parties in the jails gym. Women also left the jail for days and were sold out of various establishments. I have no idea where these establishment are. I have never been to one. I have rather large lips, and the men and women choose you based on your mugshot. I obviously had a popular mugshot, because they came down on me hard with their "Brides of Dracula". I was sleep deprived, cursed out by people I did not know, deprived of a decent meal and targeted in general. I couldn't get a break. It was literally torture.

When Mr. Beane opened the cell doors of those "Brides" and they all came out to play, I laid on my bunk and slept. There was nothing about those women I admired or coveted. My body is a temple and not a tool, but it was frustrating as hell. To be targeted, denied the pleasure to take a shower, use the phone or get exercise was worse. To see the women that kept you up all night with their antics, get up and stay out all morning. When you have been denied your time, because you didn't just sit back and take their abuse, is so hard. It's enough to make you hate them and your captures. As drug addicts they stayed up all night, anyway. Remember, I was acquitted and it was found out that I really hadn't did anything wrong. So, I'm in jail for something I didn't do, plus I'm being tortured by men and women that just want to use me. When I first got there, Christmas time was over. That starts from late-August and early-September, and that's to get up the deputies Christmas money. Around late-March and early-April, begins the summer money. These people have extensive social lives, children that demand name brand clothing and new cars. Plus, college tuition, their drug habits and their children's habit. Now, they sell women all the time, don't get me wrong, but these are the times that the police drag all their "regulars" and more popular inmates into the jail. For those regulars it's cool, because in September, it's getting cold. Their little charges larceny, shoplifting and prostitution are petty crimes. Some of them have 50 misdemeanors that get them 90 days. You only do 75 days on a 90-day sentence. So when you count that two and a half months, that takes you right into Christmas. 

This can be frustrating to an inmate. It was frustrating to me, and I wasn't even prostituting. By the time I found out, it was summertime cycle. I guess they wanted me to know, because they wanted me to join in. I had been there for over four months and I'm sure that they needed my participation. I had probably been chosen as a "date" several times by then. One of their "frustrated" and "regulars" called me to her door one day and said, "Alder wants you so bad...!" I walked away and said something like, "And people in hell want ice water." That's how it works people, the women involved recruit the new women. They sit around you and tell you that you will get a million years in prison. Your court-appointed-lawyer does t0o, because they are also in on the game. Then there is the mental torture that includes sleep deprivation. They sat someone I know next to a man that let out the stinkiest farts you can imagine. A taser was put in my face, after the deputies lied and said that I was the highest security level in the entire jail. Pulled me out of my cell with 15 other deputies around me, while I was in handcuffs. It's enough to drive you crazy, but I have a strong mind. The State has declared me Insane" three times. They even gave me a "Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity" pleas once. The way the jail treated me, they don't think I'm crazy, because if they did, why do they put so much emphasis on me and what I have to say? The whole world should be able to see it. You're reading this, do you think I'm crazy? If so stop reading now!!!

Christopher Berak is just a child in my eyes. Kids grow up in the burbs, or rural parts of the State and get hooked on drugs. To feed their addiction, they start stealing. They steal and get caught and end up in the Oakland County Jail. Sure, you know that you have to have some homosexual sex, but even that is sketchy, because the deputies force you into that. You are put in a cell with a man that harasses you for sex and they walk pass and act like they don't see or hear a thing. They are demented homosexual themselves and want no part of you and uncooperative self. Do it, and life will get easier for you. You do and it does and you learn to like it. But then they want you to have sex with other people for money. So, you either give or receive, and this boy has a baby-face, and I'm sure he received. That is a torture of a whole other kind. On your knees or from behind, it gets to be too much. It's enough to make you hate them. I know I hated them, and they will tell stories of me yelling at them out my door for six-hours. My girl, Jess, came to my door to say she timed me, and it was about six and a half hours. When I got home, to relieve my stress, I wrote all those blogs under 2013. That's all about my stay at the Oakland County Jail. Not everyone can channel their energy that way. Some people just get mad and frustrated. When you have a bunch of deputies chasing you, it's all you can do is think about the last time you let a man put his penis in your mouth. Sure, you got a lighter sentence, but what about the stink of the jail, your treatment and everyone you gotta face when you get out. How deeply you have changed and hearing your mother saying, "he doesn't seem the same". And you knowing in your heart she's right. It's not the drugs or the crimes, it's the shame.

Tucker Cipriano

Judge Bowman is one of the judges they have blackmailed or threatened into assisting in their scheme. Any judge worth their weight doesn't become a judge to set guilty people free, because things like this can happen. I have a list of people that are dead, because Oakland County Jail set them free. That includes my brother's ex-girlfriend and the parents of Tucker Cipriano that was released early from OCJ. Berak looks similar to Cipriano. The men that frequent the jail's clinic has a particular type. Alder did, fair skin, dark hair and light eyes, blue or green. Cipriano got out and went to his family home and killed his mother and brother. His father is still recovering from his wounds. Now, this young man is facing life in prison. It is clear to me that he is a victim. It doesn't matter if it was Macomb or Oakland County, they both sell inmates. The attorney in my first case that railroaded me. Had me have bench trial, William Cataldo, was so good he is now lead prosecutor for Homicide in Macomb County. Disgraced Prosecutor, Eric Smith is now his boss. This syndicate covers the Tri-County Area, Macomb, Oakland and Wayne. You better believe it and they are putting all of us at risk, by allowing these people to go free. First, by letting them go without proper rehabilitation, then disgruntled and lastly thinking they can get away with murder. They have even put their own at risk, because there was another deputy injured, before Overall that is still recovering. I bet anything that young man had been in trouble before, too. 

So, Facebook has decided to promote the GOP, regardless of their truthfulness or not. They censor me from telling about this. Two things that can put the public at large at risk, but I have no power to break apart Facebook, and therefore I'm censored. People are dying and families are being irreparably harmed by the actions of these law enforcement men and women. If you have anyone that is affected by crime or drugs in your family and/or friend think about it. Has there ever been a time that you thought, "I thought he/she was going to prison. Ain't this the gazillionth time they been to jail?" You know what I'm talking about. That family member that keeps getting out, doing something else and back at home in a couple of month? It is real and they are using our kids and the high school girls are already being targeted. Grown men that chase them and harass them, and I'm talking about men in police cars. It's all of them, too. I had a woman tell me that the suburban girls don't go to jail. Yes they do! These men have no sense of colorism, socialism, racism, classism or any other "ism". It's all about money and Troy, with all their office buildings is one of Oakland County's biggest culprits. White women are Trustees more than the Black women, but it is just different degrees of Whoredom. Believe me, no woman is exempt. My girl Lisa, was their only Asian for a long time. Sure you can point at Detroit, Pontiac and Warren, but you must not forget the Bloomfields, Troy and Novi. St. Clair Shore, Romeo, Sterling Heights, Livonia and East Pointe in Macomb. Wayne County includes so many that I can't signify them with just a few, but Dearborn, is number one, along with Inkster, Highland Park and Westland. But they all are involved, I'm trying to figure out why they are trying to get rid of Fout. He might be holding something up or a little too greedy. I don't know, but it's never about social standards and it's all about money!

This young man is mentally ill and his life is worth saving. That can only happen by reforming the mental health system in Michigan. I don't know if his mind broke, due to the drugs or mental torture or both. One thing I believe is true, he is a victim of a corrupt system. They gave me a "Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity". I have never said I am God! Sonja Overall wants to lock this child up and throw away the key? The police don't like the police and will try to destroy the life of another cop, easily. Those that live through the torture of the crooked cops are a special kind of cop. Eric Overall is a victim of their lackluster love for one another, and I hope that one day the law enforcement of America has the courage to bring these men down. Men and women that have vowed to "Serve and Protect", but are a part of the erosion of America's society. Selah...

Remember When?

Trump's Gotcha Moment
America has been had; Biggly

Remember when Bill Clinton was lying about Monica Lewinsky? Everyone in America only knew that he had some questionable incidents in the past with various women. I just saw a picture of Clinton and his wife, Hillary ex-Secretary of State with a woman that I saw him flirt with at a dedication of some sort. When President William Jefferson Clinton said in a news conference, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman." I didn't believe him, but it came out that they were never supposed to have had intercourse. She would give him oral sex and masturbate in front of him with objects. Namely, a cigar that took the place of his penis and therefore didn't count. She says that's not true, they had sex and she has the dress to prove it. "Ya-da-da-ya-da..." Well, it didn't count in his eyes, but Hillary has eyes of a different kind. She was pissed and rightly so. He got off the impeachment, Hillary forgave him and America forgave him and we moved on. But here's the thing, we knew Bill was a perv. He had all these other women telling tales about extra-marital affairs and sexual abuse. Paula Jones and Jennifer Flowers. It was really no real surprise when Billy got caught with pants down in the Oval Office, because we know that he didn't just sit there and watch.

You can see that they are more than friends. See the looks she gives?

Now, we have a man of the same type in the White House. Not really a sexual deviant in office, at least not yet. Trump is a con man of sorts. He makes people believe things that really aren't true. He can talk the "sweet off sugar". He gave a whole bunch of people in the trenches in America that needed hope, a whole sh*t load of hope. They were racist and felt that Obama was working for the Blacks and had left them dry. They were mostly people from rural cities that had lost income due to factories and plants closing in their towns. People that worked for General Motors (GM) that were disenfranchised by the greed of the company. GM closed plants all over the Midwest, I know cities in Michigan lost a lot of jobs and people were living on welfare for over 20-years. Pontiac lost about four. Mike Moore did a movie about it called "Roger and Me" in 1989. That was way before Obama. Started with the first Bush, into Clinton, it lasted through the other Bush, and then Obama. It really  is being felt, today. Americans don't get the luxury of having a third grade education and making a whole bunch of money, anymore. People need to get educated. To a slickster like Trump, he can convince people they can go back to a place were technology was slim and we lived well. I think that's what he means by making America great again. We all know that you can't go back and unlearn what you've learned. Technology is here and it keeps moving us forward. People won't be needed to build machine, anymore. Machines will need people to build them, control them and repair them. That's the new union and that's the new America. There is no going back!

America has moved passed all the things that seemed virtually free. There was a time that Americans went West and squatted on a piece of land that would eventually become theirs. Blacks didn't go in my opinion, because they were free here, and why take a chance on being a slave again, when you were already free. Most of those states, weren't decided "free" or "slave" yet. You could go, get a piece of land and be a slave the next day! Who wants to take that kind of risk? So, States like Montana, Oregon, Washington State and Wyoming were settled by the poor Whites that were fleeing free states. They didn't want to deal with Black folks and fled to land that was free and plentiful and free! Those states are still predominantly White and prejudice. Boeing, the airplane company, are still facing class-action civil suits by African-Americans. They started in Seattle, Washington. They wouldn't allow the Black people running from Jim Crow to even work in their plants. When they did, they wouldn't allow them to join the union. America being great is based solely on racism. It was great when Black people were at a disadvantage. We are still at a disadvantage, but we can grow better, if we play by the rules. The same standards that Whites set for themselves, but make it harder for us to achieve. Redling is real, gentrification is real, the rent in my community is too high and people are living to die, and not dying to live. My sisters are selling themselves for car payments, rent and groceries. Drugs are still prevalent in my city, but my people have safeguards to survive, just like the roach they found in the Arctic. Trump don't care, however, he bought his wife. He invites a few pastors and HBCU Presidents for lunch and he thinks he got us.

Trump and Black Pastors

I'm not impressed, until I see a change in my surroundings. Money is being cut and he is cutting it. Playing that "hide and seek" game. He is hiding his hand, while America suffers. He can't even get involved with the UAW's strike against GM, because he's too busy dodging his own troubles. A con man will always mind his own business, because he don't want you minding his. He's going to let them settle that. The GM strike is causing a lot of families harm. They have no income and they have bills. Big bills, and hope they saved for a "rainy day", because it's about to rain, biggly. Many people feel the strikers are right, but right has never been the issue in a war. It's what your opponent feels is right that is the issue. If he is bigger and stronger than you, you could be fighting a losing battle. The President of the UAW asked the people to hold on. I wonder if he has enough money to feed their kids? I don't think anyone is even paying attention to the longest running strikes in decades. Everybody is looking at Trump. What he is doing? What he is saying? Who he is hanging out with? Somebody needs to take a look back at the unions and GM doing good by those people and those people doing right GM. That is money that is not being spent in our economy at this point. The wheel needs to keep on turning.

Omarosa Manigault Newman
From Trump's Shadow

We know what Trump is. He is a racist. I saw it on the first season of "The Apprentice" in how he treated Kwame, and I wrote Mark Burnette and told him. That was 2002 and before he became President. Trump used Omarosa to sabotage Kwame's final project. Like Whites do a lot with Black people. Find a good "Tom" that is willing to do anything to bolster their own status. Kwame was a much better businessman than Bill Rancic. She was also used to rally the Black leaders to Trump's side. He used the same tactics that have been used forever. Omarosa got a taste of who she really is in Trump's world, when she was fired and kicked out of the White House. We don't want her back! She has quietly slipped out of the scene. Gary Owen can have her spot. He was already offered Stacey Dash's spot. I hope this one sticks! Trump put her in her place, most likely by a secret he got on her, and she had done so much that the Black Community wouldn't help her. She thought that she was going to turn on him and we would take her back. No, no, missy, you can take a seat over there with Stacy Dash. He has used so many people, and then they realize what they are involved in and walk away. Many of them probably say, "I didn't sign up for this." They were ruining their good name. Now, he is seen in a picture with the one of the two men indicted this week for ties with Giuliani. Remember, we know who we are dealing with. He is a womanizer, con man and crook. We know all this and a racist. He comes from a long line of them. What we have to do now, is get the nerve to stand up to his games. They stood up to Kwame Kilpatrick and gave him 38-years. Where Trump's at?

There are men that sit in a room and scour the internet all day. They are the people that find old racist tweets and Facebook post to prove that you didn't always feel the way you do now. We now know that there men are Giuliani's friends, but Trumps. Not only that, they think the world of him. What do you think landing the Presidency did for their admiration for him? Do you think they'll tell the story. We know that Trump is using the US as a bargaining chip to secure business deals overseas. That's why he wants the Biden's investigated. "You only see in others what you see in yourself". He sees America as a way to get richer. Those financial reports will show how rich he really is, and how he avoids paying taxes. He wants foreign business people to think Ivanka is in some big position in the US government, and that way, she can be in on deals concerning the Trump dynasty.  If they people believe that she is close to him, they will believe that she can get things done in the US and provide them with favors. We know she can't, but "checks and balances" haven't been working lately. He is breaking all the rules and we have got to make it stop! I don't know if it's going to be an impeachment or a full-fledge look at his business deals, his sons business deals and those of his son-in-law, but the plan is clear. We know from the past that making it clear to his followers isn't enough. That's why Congress must act, now! He's going to pillage this country and have other gangsters like Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan a chance at influence the inner-workings of Americans way of life and politics.

Rec Tayyip and President Putin
"Nothing but a Gangsta party"

It seems that the Turkish President is also a crook and has gone rogue. Men like Putin don't feel that peace is good for business. Trump is using the American military to help these men win over territories that do not belong to them and are helpless and torn by the fighting. Seeing those women with their children walking those dusty roads breaks my heart. The pictures from Syria are devastating to the heart. I've seen less off it over the year, thanks to American influence. Children are the worse casualties of war. Yes, we do have hungry and underprivileged children in America, but if we would just let someone know, those children would not go hungry or homeless long. We are America and we care. I pray for those women and their children as they walk alongside guns and death. I feel that America is suffering when we allow others to suffer. My people suffered enough. I want one America to open their hearts to these people like they did the Irish, Italians, Germans and Dutch before them. I pray that they do the Syrians better than they did them. Amen

Mouthpiece Miller 3: The Defiant Ones

Too close for comfort

For all of you that are following along, the people in the above photo are Councilwoman Gloria Miller and Council Pro-Tem Randy Carter. I don't like their relationship. Not because they are romantically involved. They both have spouses, but as you can see, they enjoy the closeness of one another. In this type of setting, it is ideal that everyone has a vote. When two people appear to have an inappropriate relationship, the chances that "checks and balances" are happening are slim. As a citizen of Pontiac, I want to know that each of the people up on that dias have their own individual thought, ideas and most importantly vote. I never want to believe that two Council people have one vote. There are times that people vote together, but Councilwoman Miller just can't seem to grasp the understanding of what her job is. It is not to be a "mouthpiece" that put out at every Council Meeting the trash that the President and Pro-Tem wants her to regurgitate. In the above picture they look like they are about to kiss or something. I took that screenshot and cut it to size, because I don't want them to say that I am implying that they are having an affair. I want you to see it for yourself. Their heads are almost touching. That is too close, and if I were either of their spouses, I would want to know why they are so comfortable being that close. They may be trying to prove a point to me, but to me, the only point I see is inappropriate. Randy Carter, however, has another "gal pal" that follows him and do his bidding.

Sarah Spicer, was blatantly making a fuss about the administration on the live feed of the Council Meeting. The Mayor goes live at 6 pm every Tuesday. This week, Sarah was there, spewing her evil and ignorant thoughts about the administration. She sadly spelled Amazon wrong. A word that is so noticable in America's culture everyday. Here is her ignorance, and I think she was going at the applicant for the District #2, Coleman Yoakum. Mr. Yoakum can fight his own battles. I want to show her ignorance. 

I know she probably thought I would be there, but I cast the council meetings to my television. I rarely post a comment, because I'm going to blog about it when it is over. Besides, Sarah is not on my level. I don't follow anyone and attack people for anyone. Rene Beckley commented on my post about the School Board. I think that a mileage is premature. Beckley also agrees that it is wrong for our School Board to add a mileage to our tax rolls. Rene Beckley might agree on other things. One thing we will never agree on is Kermit Williams. She is one of his biggest fans and I literally despise his politics and the way he treats the Mayor at the council meetings.

He runs the City Council Meetings like speed dating. Everything is done in a rush. I know I don't hardly ever get the full understanding of what they are arguing about. Mary Pietila tries to make it clear, but she is hurried along. In an attempt to cut her comments down for time sake, Patrice Waterman, also has a very narrow commitment. Too narrow, to enlightening the people about what's really going on. I know that there is something going on with the retirees and healthcare, but I have no idea what 3.5% consumption is and what the IRS has to do with it. The citizens have no clarification on that or anything. Williams runs through everything. He ended the meeting twice, like he always does, and members of the Council have to remind him that he hasn't completed the agenda. He has to ask what he missed and take his seat, again. We really don't get a meeting and I want to hear more of what the Council men and women think. It used to be that they could answer all the questions and complaints that people have talked about in their public comment, but now, with three minutes there is little time for clarification or answers. City Council Meeting are for the people. They should take as much time that is needed for the public can be enhanced about what is going on in the city. The Mayor's three minutes, are surely not enough to tell what is going on in a whole city. Three minutes aren't enough for the people or the Council people. For me, it's another reason to recall Kermit Williams.

Robert Burch
Interim Director Pontiac Rec Center

Another key issue this week is the Rec Center. They need a full-time Director. They guy doing the job says that he doesn't want it. Robert Burch, who I just found out is the Director, would like to be Assistant-Director. I can understand why a man wouldn't want all that responsibility. Guess what? The City Council wants to give him the job. Now, the Financial Director has resigned, because he wanted to get paid more. They are willing to give a man a job he doesn't want, but not pay a man that was perfectly willing and more than able to do the job. It makes me wonder about Robert Burch, what makes him so special? Then of course, Gloria Miller has all the answers on the Rec Center. She worked on one for 12-years. The Deputy Mayor tried to clarify her stance on "programs", but uneducated people don't know anything about building a program. Miller claims that her grandchildren in Auburn Hills have a better program. I can tell her, it's probably, because they have educated people that know how to run a program, who is running that program and they are getting paid for their services. She always talk about what she knows, but why doesn't she put it in writing? Williams says that he wants a report on what the count is at the Center. Who, what when and where. He allows Miller to give all these speeches about what she knows, but why doesn't she put her information in a report? Go to Auburn Hills and ask them how their program is ran so smoothly. Who makes what, what experience and education the people have that work there. She talks about our children running around at the Center. We must face it, our children are the product of the same thing that gets her out of her seat in the middle of council meetings. They have all kinds of problems ADHD, ADD, and other behavior issues. People in Auburn Hills children don't usually have those problems.

I get so sick of Miller and her ignorant statements and attacks on the Mayor. Mary Pietila cleared up her lies about the Center. She actually goes there, and hasn't "heard about things" she's not going to address. Williams and Miller both have information about the Center that they won't discuss. It's their job to address it. If your not going to tell people, the citizens, about it, why bring it up? I think they are lying. Noticeably quiet was Doris Taylor-Burks. I was coming home, from a repasse for a friend's memorial service at the Ruth Peterson Center on Saturday. I happened upon a mess at the Car Wash on Paddock and Glenwood. Across the street from the old Glenwood Plaza. There was trash all over the parking lot and in the street. It is disgusting, and was still there yesterday, Monday, October 7, 2019. She has her nerves to tell someone to keep her name out of her mouth. She needs to clean up her district. Like Williams, maybe you should ride your own streets sometimes. In the video I shared, cars are riding passed frequently. 

Doris Taylor-Burks District
A filthy mess

Everyone accept two City Council men and women need to clear up their situations, before they come in every Tuesday trying to tear-down the Mayor. There is no mention of Amazon coming. Only from an illiterate constituent of Randy Carter's. Who seems to have enough "skanks and ho's" to deal with. I want a city that runs well, and not on the so-called President's schedule. This city is not his to run amuck. We need to ask for more and we need to celebrate our accomplishments. Not come, like Gloria Miller,  with a problem every week. Our Council is so negative and it's always about money. They want the money, and the marijuana is their ticket. Before they do, however, they got to get Kone Bowman on the Council. That will happen in a couple of weeks. Then they'll have all the muscle to bully the Mayor into doing what they need done. We'll just have to wait to see what comes down the road.

Taylor-Burk's District, today, the Winter of 2020 ran on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/lesley.stanley.522/videos/3396260440400611/

School is Out: Girl Scouts

I do not have children in the Pontiac School District. In fact, I don't have children. Around 1997, I worked for Girl Scouts and had three troops in Pontiac at Webster, Mark Twain and Alcott. That ended horribly, and left me needing more. It's amazing, but I met one of my girls in jail. She got two years for a gun. She had committed "Armed Robbery". My boss was a coke-fiend that used our children for cookie money. She had a hook-up in stores in the Detroit Metro-Area and paid very little for whatever she bought the girls. Every week they had cookies and juice, some even had ice cream socials and pizza parties. Her son's friend worked at the pizza joint and a friend had a thing running with an ice cream vendor. All bases were covered and she spent very little money and made sure that on the surface that the girls were getting a quality program. She set people up for failure. She set me up for failure, but it was just that, a set-up. It didn't work, because I was blessed and could see the game she was playing. I wanted to work with the Juniors, and she got the Brownie's at my three schools. When I set up a cookie booth at the Flea Market in May, people were asking me, "Isn't Girl Scout Cookie season over?" I would reply, "Yes, but my boss just got here, Pontiac was a mess. She wants the girls to get the whole experience of Girl Scouts." Well, that's what she told me to say, because it was true. Cookie season ran from January to March. It was May and cookies were officially over. 

I told the truth, she was using our children. She rallied the girls late. The woman who was there had done little with the schools. She spent most of her time riding around and making friends. She didn't need to work, her husband was a football player and played for the Lions. My boss went right out and "rallied the girls". She asked me if I would run the office and the three troops. Eager to assist, I said that I would. I hadn't been in Girl Scouts since I was six and seven at Frost. I barely remembered most of the rules or even the pledge. She said it was fine. It didn't matter, and she just wanted to give the girls of Pontiac a chance to experience Girl Scouts, because it was such a great program. What she really wanted was to line her pockets with cookie money. Brownies sold a lot of cookies, because their parents helped them. Seeing that the season was over, people that loved Girl Scout cookies was excited about being able to have a second-chance at the delightful confections. She was going to line her pockets with money and get rid of me all at once. When I tell you that God is good, you better believe it.

People in suburban cities have this problem, but not to this extent. The schools, churches and community centers allow these people to come in and pimp our children. As long as there is a semblance of "goodness" they can put it in a grant and boost their chance of getting it. Our children really don't have a sense of a true sisterhood. What they get is food that's not good for them and their parents get a couple hours of an extended babysitter. I only went to one training for Girl Scouts, I wasn't going to be around for long anyway. I used to teach my children how to sing uplifting songs and boy did they catch on quick. Every time I came to do my program, all the girls wanted to do was talk. They wanted to express themselves and tell someone that they had something worthwhile to say. That they had goals and dreams and little boy they liked in another class. They would look at one another, and one was chosen from the looks to speak. "Miss...Can we just talk, today?" Sometimes, I would say "yes" and sometimes "no", but it was always interesting to hear what they have to say. Now, I see from Facebook that the School Board wants to ask for a mileage. I think that is all "fine and dandy", but I need to see some progress and not just a new face-lift on the building. A student was just shot two blocks from the school. Come on, now, really you want some money?

Mike McGuiness
Pontiac School Board Secretary

Our children are far behind in test scores and I want to see their curriculum. I see that Mike McGuiness has a plan, but I want to see that plan. It was all mapped out on last Monday. I see dollars and cents, but we have a unique situation in Pontiac. It calls for a unique plan and our children need a unique experience. It's time to think outside the box and create a place of not only learning, but mind building, problem solving and working together. That is not just for the exceptional children that can do extraordinary things, but all our children. It doesn't take a lot of time, but someone with the mindset to change the framework of the classroom. Throwing good money after a poor curriculum will do nothing to help our children grow. Learning is done everyday, what you will learn is key. Taking note of who is coming in and out of our schools and dealing with our children is imperative. Our goals should not be on money, but experiences that don't cost a thing. I was asked by a principal of a local charter school, "What do you think our children need?" I replied someone to listen to them, and help them meet their goals." Guidance and discipline is a part of that. Seeing something materialize that they worked on from start to finish.They are dealing with a special kind of student, parent and situation in Pontiac and I want them to start acting like it. It won't take money, but building a better system, and one that works for our kids. A mileage at this point is not going to cut it. Getting our citizens in debt, when mileages haven't worked in the past is immature. Certain flaws have to be fixed, before they ask people to pay more for their taxes. 

McGuinness has some good numbers, charts and even a pointer. I want to ask him if he has any plans to take that money and deal with certain mental and counseling matters. Is there any money set aside for planning a classroom that rivals those of other cities. My sister said that the difference with Pontiac and the district she lives in is implementing the plans they have. We have a serious problem with hiring ineffective teachers. People that have graduated towards the top of their class that knows what it takes to run a classroom well. Plus, oversight on those that come into the schools to work with the children. Who are they? Do they have the educations and "know-how" to run a program successfully and not just a friend on the Board that needs a few dollars. When I was in school the teachers were involved with the student and programs that helped build character, ethnic associated and athletics. We had pep-rallies, school trips and organized activities to create solidarity. If we need money just for our schools curriculum we are in trouble and have to look for outside entities to help support those activities and someone that expedite that activities. I want to see the plan, and I want to see the curriculum. 

I had an assignment to do a D.A.P.P. Program in the high school. That was 20-years ago, and those people are either retired or dead. I got so much resistance, because people at the school were being paid to do a Drug and Alcohol Program and wasn't doing it. There was a woman in the schools trying to destroy every program that she wasn't involved with. A beloved band director was being attacked by her, and all the principal and teachers were having sex with one another. Even those that were married were having affairs. Even my boss was "going with" the principal at McCarroll. She was going to Victoria Secrets, before coming to work. She was getting ready for her meeting with him during the school day. All of this while our children were selling drugs, using drugs and doing it all in school. While there, I saw a young woman that had hit her first crack pipe. Her friends stood around making fun of her, as she tried to work through the effects of the high. With the younger kids, you could get parent participation, but at the high school level, it was non-existent. Those kids were adults taking care of their own lives. They were learning what to do, by what they saw at home and there was no structure that I could see in most cases. Twenty-something years later with two recessions, I know it's worse, today! Just get 'em in and hope that it all works out right. How could it in this cesspool that is Pontiac. We are all lucky to get out alive. A millage will not help that. Structure and deconstructing the lives of our children. Money won't fix that, but time and care is key. It starts in Masonry. 

I was looking to join the Girl Scout Program at the Recreation Center in Pontiac. Since my inquiring about that program, there has been programs that are popping up all over Pontiac. To me, that means that they are looking to do something deceitful with our children. I can tell you that in that six-week period of Girl Scouts, I sold two-thousand dollars in cookies. After helping with an in-school program out at the camp up near Lapeer, I went back to the office. The phone rang and I went to answer and sat at my boss' desk. She had been to the Cookie Meeting in Detroit that day. Not knowing that I was coming back to get the skillet, she left the information sitting on her desk. Just talking on the phone and being nosy, I picked up the paperwork. I looked for my troops, Mark Twain, Webster and Alcott. Well, I saw Mark Twain and I saw Webster, but Alcott was missing. I had sold over $1500 in cookies at that school. There was nothing to signify that I ever sold cookies at Alcott. I do remember coming out after my meeting and there being a mix-up with a few boxes and her saying, "Oh, it'll all come out in the wash." It sure did, she tried to say that I owed her for $900 in cookies sales. Knowing that she didn't count Alcott and that I had given her over $1500 in cookie money, I told her that I didn't owe her anything.

I had put my money in money orders on the insistence of my cousin. She had told me that when you have money lying around like that, you have a tendency to spend it and that I should go to my bank and get money orders as soon as possible. I did just that, because it was a month, before she asked for that money. When she saw the money orders she bugged her eyes, lifted them with her thumb and index finger and said, "You got money orders!" When I saw the look on her face, I knew she was up to no good. I stood up and said, "Yeah, my cousin told me to." She just sat there looking at the money orders shocked. I went back to my office and she called me out. "You owe me $938. I looked her right in the face and said, "No I don't." She got out her calculator and pretended to work the numbers, again. "Yes, you owe me $938", it's right her." She began to panic. I repeated myself for the last time and "No, I don't owe you anything." I went to my office and worked the entire summer to her amazement, I did not stop coming to work. Some days, she peeked into my office to see if I had stopped coming. I kept coming and even took my three troops to Cedar Point and got them discount tickets with their cookie money. I put their money in my bank account, because she has lied about opening an account where her son worked. She was just a thief! McDonalds had given Girl Scouts 10-million dollars for a Millenium Project and she bought a house in Southfield and had three brand new cars in the drive.

Plus, she was going around talking about me to everyone that would listen. Of course she was in with the police. She had them go into my file and sign a warrant for my arrest, and executed the day before I had an in-school, all day party for the girls at Jefferson. Then told all the parents that I had a "run-in" with the police. A case that went nowhere, and I fought it working with her at Girl Scouts. The cop never showed up, because he said it was over a year before. This woman was using the children of Pontiac, and no one even cared. When Troy Craft said Girl Scouts in the City Council Meeting my ears went straight up. They are back at the largest after school program. They want cookie money. This woman Wendy Peace, supervised Pontiac. I called and left her a message. The police, knowing my every move had her call me back, while I was talking to my case manager at CNS. I guess she thought that I would somehow be embarrassed by being involved with mental health treatment and I wouldn't stop her from being seedy and using our little girls to buy that new purse or car she wants. Nope, it's better than not getting help at all. Children suffer from mental health issues, at earlier ages these days. Autism and ADHD is prevalent in our schools, today. Bi-polar disease is very common amongst teenagers, too. I have been in two institutions and have learned quite a bit about mental illness. I won't even deny I have issues, because I met a lot of good people in those institutions that were good to me. Who I am, the places I've been, on the lies men have told, aren't my shame but the shame of those men!

All these people wanting money for our kids need a plan. Not just how they will spend the money, but how they will use non-monetary skills to build better people. The know how and recruitment skills to get people that know how to put these plans to work. Girl Scouts also needs a plan coming into our city starting all these troops. They have specific community issues they target that include bullying, diversity and friendship. The have camps, if they haven't sold them in hard times, where the girls can go and find out about nature and science. I want all that for our girls. I want an enrichment program that will take the girls that participate to new heights and open their minds to worlds they will never see on the streets of Pontiac. I still was fired. Her boss, and the Godmother to her son that worked at the bank, fired me. She had given me expenses to pay the money that my boss said that I owed. I still say I didn't owe her a dime. She had pocketed all the money. How could she say I owed her anything? My brother said that if my boss' 21-year old son was her boss' Godson, they had been stealing for at least 21-years and I didn't have a chance. My boss had that check come, after the deadline for cookie debt had to be paid. I got my walking papers, after I paid the funds that I didn't owe. I love my girls and had just taught them, "Tomorrow" by Quincy Jones and they sang it well. You all know me, I can hold a grudge, especially when I've been wronged. I don't hate Girl Scouts, but they aren't coming up in this city and doing to other people what was done to me. My boss loved to accuse women with substance abuse problems of stealing. Letting them hold on to the cash too long, thinking they will spend it. Sometimes they did, and sometimes they didn't, either way, she took the money. It's just what she did...

They can try to use my past against me, as untrue and full of lies that it is. I could stand more money!

Switching the Game Up

Cameo

I have to start with Pontiac's Concert Series last weekend. It was amazing! Some of the seats were left empty, but I think that is for a lack of motivation than anything. The people in Pontiac, have lacked a place to go and have fun for so long. They didn't get up to get out. Usually, this would be far from a my mind. The Puerto Rican Club, Mill Street, 4Brothers and even Griff's Griller, are all gone! Quincy Stewart got up tonight and gave a stellar review of the happenings in Pontiac. We have lost all of our places to hang-out. Have a drink, meet up with friends from our past. We all have lived here together all our lives. We need a place to reminisce and be friends. When people have left come back, we need a place to go and know that we will see people from old, because they are there, every Friday night. It is crucial to a city like Pontiac.

His buddy and like-partner Kenny Anderson got up and blessed us with a word about changing how we think. If we change our minds, we can change our lives. That is what the children and adults in Pontiac need to hear. Our minds are powerful and if we could just look at things a differently way, maybe we could grow out of obscurity and into a better life. It was powerful. I've seen Kenny at CNS and I know he knows what he is talking about. Mental illness is a chemical imbalance. People with schizophrenia or bi-polar disorder will always have that disease. A person with a personality-disorder or histrionics does not have to keep in that steed. With therapy and medication, they can move out of that way of thinking. It is something to think about, because if we change our focus, life could be so much better. I thought that I would never say this, but, good talk gentlemen.

There was talk about allocating money from money rolled-over from the council's budget. Attorney Sharp, speaking for the Council want to build a memorial for Don Woodward, the Councilman that died a couple of weeks ago. He was a good man, but no Christopher Brown. People who aren't from here, shouldn't be able to express sentiment on things like that...I think. He worked in the district he lived in, but was really too sick to make a difference. I don't want to discount his life, just effect he had on the city as a whole. Gloria Miller, Councilperson of District #5, does not like the idea of giving the Mayor and her administration a dime. She wants a $24K pavillion in one of her parks. She claims that the Mayor won't give it to her, because she doesn't like her. I wonder if she did a report to show the Mayor why a pavillon is a good idea. How the costs compares to other cities that have done the same. She said her people came to Mayor Waterman, but did they bring a thorough proposal. I can recall going to the late-great Pastor Solomon Smith for a few hundred dollars for Girl Scouts. He said that he needed some paperwork, because he needed to show the people of his congregation where their money was going. It's the same with the city. Plus, you have to be willing and able to work with the city. She keeps trying to make it seem that the Mayor is so hard to work with, but Councilman Pro-Tem Carter is not her friend.

The Carters

He and his wife Representative Brenda Carter play dirty. I went to one of their events this summer in Keego Harbor. There was a woman there who did not like Miller's politics. In fact, she said that she wasn't against the bicycle lanes on Perry. I asked her, "Tell me how you feel about the bike lanes?" She ignored me, and towards the end of the discussion I asked again. She told me, "I can't say that I'm against the bike lanes. People ride their bikes in the street and people can get hurt. I don't see a problem [paraphrasing]" I looked at her and was astonished. Why would a woman that was against Miller's politics be at a Randy Carter meeting? When I can see that Miller trust him, completely. People usually don't show up at an event if they are against a person's politics. This woman did not like Gloria Miller at all. So, like I said, she's getting played by Carter and President Kermit Williams. I have to say that, because my cousin says this is all my opinion. "In order to get something good, you have to be good". Coming into the Council Meetings every week and attacking the Mayor will get you nothing. Then you sit up there with Randy Carter and hold his hand? That man is a snake. He is stabbing you in your back every day. You won't listen to me, but he think he got me. It's playing out just as plan. Gloria Miller, if you want anything for your people, you need to let go of Carter's hand, because he's leading you into deep water. When your out far enough to drown, he's going to let go. Trust me...

Doris Taylor-Burks opened her mouth and should have closed it, quickly. She is also complaining about her parks. She actually sat at a council meeting and said she has crackheads and drunks in her park. The difference between her and Mary Petilia is that Mary, as messy as she is, would call the police and stop people from smoking crack and drinking in her parks. She has a relationship with the police to try and get things done. The way she got on the Council was that she tried to get prostitutes off her street. One who was having sex with a Pontiac Police Officer, while he was on patrol. I know now that is true. What is Doris Taylor-Burks doing about her parks. Does she think she can just regulate people to do the work, while she leads. City Council Members work for the people. She is another one that doesn't like the Mayor. How will she ever get things done for her people. When you have a judge that wants a Defendant to go to jail, there is nothing you can do. She will give negative action every time. Over-rule every one of your objections. You can't get any where, but your client in jail. We saw it with Geoffrey Fieger and that guy that killed the cop that was doing him a favor and taking him home. Fox2 did a montage of the dozens of times Rae Lee Chabot said, "Move on Mr. Fieger". That young man went to prison for LIFE, the letters not the numbers. Nothing Fieger could say or do, would change Rae Lee Chabot's mind. Judges love cops and you are hard press to find one that doesn't. That's our Mayor, she's the judge Miller and Taylor-Burks can't get anything if she don't want it!

Councilperson Doris Taylor-Burks

If Taylor-Burks and Miller can't get anything done in their districts, their people should elect someone that can work with the Mayor to get things done. Kermit Williams in all his glory, gave a speech about the crime in Pontiac. I feel that the police is the biggest instigators of murder and mayhem in this city. I can recall an argument with a cop I had on Facebook. This man was dogging the people of Pontiac. He said they were just no good. They didn't value anything, not their property, children or their own lives in general. We didn't have any murders in the city, none! A few weeks later we had our first. Then there was violence in the streets. Look it up, it all started happening all at once. As soon as he slammed the city on Facebook. Believe me, I know how the police and Kermit Williams work. They have done everything to ruin my reputation. I have people coming up to me, giving me hugs and telling me, "I know you..." I was just shocked, because they are really going around spreading rumors about me. They obviously don't know who they are talking in front of, because people do know me and I am far from a stalker, thief or reveller. For an entire year of my life, I have stayed in my house and minded my own business on a lie. When I came home and found out that Eric Teasley was dead, I knew it was the police. They have tricks that they do and get people to be jealous of other people. Make them believe that someone is "on" more than they are. Mind games, and it is tricks they play with weak minds.

I remember going to McDonalds, and hearing the girl in the back making the sandwiches saying, "Watch me show this 'b-i-t...'" I wondered if she was talking about me. I knew she was when I got home and all my food was half-done. I don't feel comfortable eating fast-food at all. They know my car. The police have gone around and shown my picture to people. I am "Public Enemy Number One". That's why I stay in my house. People have been told things about me that just aren't true. People have this opinion of me that has been contrived by Oakland County Sheriff's Department that makes me some kind of "Big Shot" that like White men and don't like Black people. Then there are people that just think that I am low. Too low to have anything special. People can feed off other people's insecurities and create some horrible situation. The devil lives in chaos. He breeds his nymphs in chaos and infighting. If you can just keep the people apart that you are trying to manipulate. They can't find out that you've been lying to both parties. Everything to get them fighting. That way, you can have your way. I've lived with the two masters of that all my life. Our house was always in turmoil, because that's the way they kept control of everyone. C.S. Lewis, one of the great theological minds there ever was, wrote about it. He wrote about the devil and his tactics in the "Screwtape Letters". It is very similar to Willie Lynch's rules about slaves. Remember, before White people enslaved us, they kept each other down. Same games, just different people. The rich do it to poor Blacks and Whites, today. Even the working-class is divided. As soon as the White people got a job at GM they moved to Waterford and Auburn Hills and other suburbs. They wanted to be different from us, when in reality, they all just worked in the plant. Somehow, they had to be better than us. So, they moved..."Divide and Conquer" that's always been the game!

Kone Bowman

Then they read the names of the people looking to replace Councilman Woodward. Of course, Kone Bowman was on the list. I told y'all that's why his wife was at my mental health session trying to get dirt on me. I am a preacher and a real one. Every single thing that I have been through, I will share, because I know that there is a lesson in it for me and others. I remember when I was on my way to prison. I had no idea that when I left there that I would come out, Chief Val Gross would lie on me and I would spend another four-years in jail. I had no idea. They all knew what was coming my way. I stood in a City Council Meeting and spewed like fire, "I will not be afraid of my destiny, Paul spent most of his ministry in prison!" I hadn't been there, but that was a prophetic word. The look on Kone Bowman was shock, amazement and fright. He claimed to be a preacher and the preacher in him saw the Spirit move in that place when I said those words. Now, he wants to get into the marijuana game, I assume, because Council is going to pick Woodwards replacement. Is it too late to put it on the ballot as a "Special Election"? The people of District #2, should have complete control of the matter. Woodward was elected and not appointed. Councilperson Petilia suggested they did it the way they always did it, but that didn't give Council full control. Williams and Carter want Bowman, because they want that marijuana money. The heck with what the people want. With Bowman on the Council, there will nearly unanimous vote. Petilia is mad at all of them, and they won't get her vote, but they don't need it.

The people can only act on Election Day. We can't change a thing at this point, unless the State of Federal government steps into the situation. The Mayor has done everything she can to stop them from robbing the city blind. With the Clerk's help, I don't think that they can stop any of them from being re-elected. Especially, with everyone being able to vote absentee. If Southfield's City Clerk is any example of corruption, the dirt is in those absentee votes that the elections are won and lost. I know Councilperson Patrice Waterman won her election by only 45-votes. So, 198 can go a long way in a city like Pontiac.District #2, if you are listening, put it to a vote. Don't let City Council pick you Councilperson, there is a trick in the game!

Garlin Doyle
Pontiac City Clerk