Voices this time include Desiree Cooper, Craig Fahle, Bankole Thompson, Alexis Wiley, Aaron Foley and three guys from Detroit's new cop show.
"Sold my ticket to the Jay Z/JT concert ticket because I wanted to cover the Detroit primary. Does that make me dedicated or lame?"
-- Alexis Wiley, Fox 2 reporter, in Primary Day tweet
"Blacks were free to choose their candidate, regardless of race . . . the true definition of black empowerment."
-- Cliff Woodards II, Southfield attorney, on his Facebook page
"If the United States can elect Barack Obama twice as president, Detroit can elect Mike Duggan as mayor."
-- Bankole Thompson, Michigan Chronicle editor, in blog post
"This is going to be an epic battle."
-- Craig Fahle, WDET host, on mayoral race [Podcast here]
"Voters weren't bought, they were sold. Sold on the possibility of a new way of being in Detroit."
-- Desiree Cooper, ex-Free Press columnist, on her Facebook page
"Among the numerous write-in names for #Detroit mayor & City Council, one name was missing in action: Charles Pugh."
-- Chad Livengood, Detroit News reporter, in tweet
"I'm disappointed Louis Farrakhan got a vote and no Coleman Young. Come on Detroit."
-- Darren Nichols, Detroit News reporter, in Facebook thread
"Mark Strong's character is a man of Detroit in all of its aspects: tortured but somehow resilient."
-- David Carr, writing in New York Times about "Low Winter Sun"
"When you first get here, what has happened doesn’t seem real. But I have come to love it here."
-- James Ransone, "Low Winter Sun" actor, speaking to Carr
"If it's ever said that we did for Detroit what "The Wire" did for Baltimore, it would just be the highest compliment. I wouldn’t presume that we’re yet anywhere close to being mentioned in the same breath with that show."
-- Chris Mundy, executive producer of "Low Winter Sun," at Deadline Hollywood
"In places the landscape looks more like Fallujah or Kandahar than the typical American city."
-- Richard Eskow, business consultant, blogging about Detroit at CommonDreams.org
"There is too much money to be made in the business of administering municipal bankruptcies."
-- Eric Baerren, blogging at Michigan Liberal
"What's Freep sportswriter George Sipple's next act? Interview OJ Simpson about the upcoming NFL season?"
-- Jeff Wattrick, reacting at Deadline Detroit to Denny McClain interview about Jhonny Peralta
"If you haven’t been to downtown Detroit, go. Don’t form your opinions by reading reports from people who haven’t even been there."
-- Helen Taylor, Nature Conservancy state director, in Bridge guest column
Graphics by Lauren Ann Davies.
