Blue Bananas, Anyone?
Let me pose a question for you, survey style.
Should I ask bananas to change their color from yellow to blue? Because I like blue so much better, and I think they'd be prettier that way.
Vote now: yes or no, and why.
What, you say? That's a ridiculous question? What do you mean, bananas can't change color? Really? No matter how hard I try, and no matter how many of you agree with me?
Wayne County Commissioner Kevin McNamara (D-Canton) is the latest to scratch for his 15 minutes, in the ongoing saga of Wayne County Executive Bob Ficano, aka The Little Italian General.
It's Irish on Italian crime, just like the old days in the Bowery.
McNamara sent an e-mail out to thousands of his constituents in western Wayne County, posing this to them (verbatim): "Government cannot endure without some form of trust among the elected officials and by the taxpayers who voted for them. A vote may be forced upon the Wayne County Commission to ask County Executive Robert Ficano to resign. Complete a one-minute survey and comment."
Ficano is the yellow banana here. And McNamara wants to know if his constituents should ask their commissioner to ask Ficano to turn blue.
Kevin McNamara
The survey is a great way to get some media attention, which McNamara certainly has. But its results are destined to be pretty much moot.
You see, there's no provision in the County Charter that allows the Commission to remove Ficano from office, no matter how hard they try or how much they want to.
So why solicit responses for something that isn't possible?
"My feeling is, quite frankly, I would like us not to vote," McNamara told the Free Press. "As mad as I am at him, I haven't seen that he's done anything illegal. But I want to know what the people in my area think."
Maybe McNamara is still "mad" over the leaked video of his alcohol-related traffic stop from last year, which may have come from someone inside Ficano's inner circle.
It's also an election year for the Commission. Ahh--NOW we may be on to something.
Commissioners Laura Cox (R-Livonia) and Bernard Parker (D-Detroit) have already gone public, but at least they've actually called for Ficano's resignation, sans surveys.
Not sure what McNamara's end game is here. It's toe-dipping into warm water. Not surprisingly, per his Facebook page, response was running about 70-30 for Ficano to resign. But some of the comments expressed frustration with the survey.
"Kevin just do it," one person commented.
Yeah, enough already!
Trouble is, there's really nothing to do.
Stuck at the bottom of the Free Press story was this: McNamara said the Wayne County Charter has no provision for the commission to remove the executive, so any vote would be advisory at best.
But if three commissioners request a meeting to debate a resolution calling for his resignation, the meeting would have to be held, the story says.
But Ficano isn't resigning, and the Commission can't make him.
In fact, I'd put the chances of the Little Italian General abdicating his throne at about the same as, say, bananas turning blue.
But thanks for asking, Kevin.
Should I ask bananas to change their color from yellow to blue? Because I like blue so much better, and I think they'd be prettier that way.
Vote now: yes or no, and why.
What, you say? That's a ridiculous question? What do you mean, bananas can't change color? Really? No matter how hard I try, and no matter how many of you agree with me?
Wayne County Commissioner Kevin McNamara (D-Canton) is the latest to scratch for his 15 minutes, in the ongoing saga of Wayne County Executive Bob Ficano, aka The Little Italian General.
It's Irish on Italian crime, just like the old days in the Bowery.
McNamara sent an e-mail out to thousands of his constituents in western Wayne County, posing this to them (verbatim): "Government cannot endure without some form of trust among the elected officials and by the taxpayers who voted for them. A vote may be forced upon the Wayne County Commission to ask County Executive Robert Ficano to resign. Complete a one-minute survey and comment."
Ficano is the yellow banana here. And McNamara wants to know if his constituents should ask their commissioner to ask Ficano to turn blue.
Kevin McNamara
The survey is a great way to get some media attention, which McNamara certainly has. But its results are destined to be pretty much moot.
You see, there's no provision in the County Charter that allows the Commission to remove Ficano from office, no matter how hard they try or how much they want to.
So why solicit responses for something that isn't possible?
"My feeling is, quite frankly, I would like us not to vote," McNamara told the Free Press. "As mad as I am at him, I haven't seen that he's done anything illegal. But I want to know what the people in my area think."
Maybe McNamara is still "mad" over the leaked video of his alcohol-related traffic stop from last year, which may have come from someone inside Ficano's inner circle.
It's also an election year for the Commission. Ahh--NOW we may be on to something.
Commissioners Laura Cox (R-Livonia) and Bernard Parker (D-Detroit) have already gone public, but at least they've actually called for Ficano's resignation, sans surveys.
Not sure what McNamara's end game is here. It's toe-dipping into warm water. Not surprisingly, per his Facebook page, response was running about 70-30 for Ficano to resign. But some of the comments expressed frustration with the survey.
"Kevin just do it," one person commented.
Yeah, enough already!
Trouble is, there's really nothing to do.
Stuck at the bottom of the Free Press story was this: McNamara said the Wayne County Charter has no provision for the commission to remove the executive, so any vote would be advisory at best.
But if three commissioners request a meeting to debate a resolution calling for his resignation, the meeting would have to be held, the story says.
But Ficano isn't resigning, and the Commission can't make him.
In fact, I'd put the chances of the Little Italian General abdicating his throne at about the same as, say, bananas turning blue.
But thanks for asking, Kevin.
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