NO BS NEWSHOUR EPISODE #443
EATING US ALIVE
(1:44) SCANDAL! Mary Mary, why you bed buggin’?
Mayor Sheffield introduces “Gangster Slumlord” to the Detroit political rackets.
(14:57) SLEEZEBALL! Southfield Mayor Ken Siver is a weasel who walks on two legs.
We have the documents that prove he poisoned his own city.
(26:31) SELLOUTS! El-Sayed opens P.O. Box Super PAC.
Benson surrounds herself with DTE and Ding Dongs.
(44:06) SHOCKING! Man dies after Detroit firefighters refuse to answer 911 call.
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I’m up here with Piston Vinegar and Marco and we’re sitting there being narcoleptic and shit, sleeping, bringing it down, but I wake up. I got something to do today. The election’s fucking over, T. Back to business.
That’s right. Because you know what? I was driving down here today. They ain’t shit.
They know no media, anything. They’re not really covering anything. I want them to cover the construction.
It’s terrible. Oh, it’s such a waste of money down here. We don’t have anybody like, you’re beautifying the streets when you don’t even sweep the streets, you know.
Maybe they’re making them comfortable for all the homeless people that have to sleep on them. Oh, there’s that. So you know what I decided we’re going to do? What? I’ve got four, four things to talk about today.
Original reporting. Let’s see. What is the Benson-Syed transition? What is the Mayor, Mayor, Mary, quite contrary.
What’s going on with the Lad Bank and the Munoz brothers and the pot pick? Southfield, what did you do? Mayor Cyber, what did you do? And then some shocking fire department news. Oh, listen, if you’re not from Detroit, you visit Detroit and you need an ambulance. You’re going to wait.
You’re going to want to listen. So I put them all in the magic box and you’re going to pick one out and we’re going to go nuts. Go ahead.
So many choices. Pick one. This is my Carmack.
Bob Carmack or Carnack. Okay. Topic number one, Mary, Mary, quite contrary.
Now, where do we start with this? Let’s start with this. You like this. Look at these.
Look at this. Same suspects. They hold a press conference.
They’re holding a lot of lame press conferences. This was about Sheffield and Vail’s Detroit land bank reforms. Yes.
Okay. So I saw that the other day. So what is that? They were saying, let’s be real quick, not to bore people.
That the land bank is messed up and that Mary has, it got twisted like this. They’re going to have 7,500 houses for people to move into, right? Uh-huh. That’s not what it said.
It said the city’s got liens on 7,500 properties, whether there’s a house on it or not. You know what those liens were for? When they demolished everything and threw the shit in the hole, the city put a lien for the price of the demolition, even though the feds paid for it. So developers could have first dibs.
So if they did a demo for 25 grand, let’s say you wanted a lot in the middle of a block. Right. Yeah.
They’re going to cost you $25,500. They were holding it for guys like Gilbert. Oh, wow.
Right. So Mary’s like, well, that’s not fair. So this is a bunch of bullshit, right? Look at the people in the background.
That’s the same ones that show up when seven get blasted at a strip club in the neighborhood. Yes. What the fuck? No.
Okay. But wait a minute. Yeah.
I’m looking at somebody in the front and I’m thinking this can’t be the same. Nevermind. But it is.
Let me have that. Get the fuck out of here. Absolutely.
You want to know about the land bank? Here’s what we’ve been working on. Now let’s keep it tight. We’re going to talk about what we know.
Land bank. Well, good old Marvin lover boy number two was involved with the land bank and bringing Gaston Munoz, the, and not my words. That’s the, uh, what is David Whitaker’s name? A big title.
It’s the legislative something. Policy legislative division. The head of that.
The city itself in session called him the gangster landlord. He got shitty properties all over the place, right? Just below code. They took him to court.
He’s got to fix 300 properties. I don’t know how they came up with these 300 properties, because when you look at these 300 properties, it’s a web of LLCs with different names, different names. I got a whole pile.
We’re working on it. But here’s how this works. Here we go, Barry.
This, this, this is what’s up. Here is an email from Brian White, her chief of staff, now deputy mayor, February 24th, 2021. This is Brian.
Hey, Marv, if you send me a letter about your community and what you want to do with the properties in Detroit, I can prepare a letter of recommendation from our office. If you are identifying property in district five, you want the purchase. Now Ryan attached a list of properties and somehow at least four of these properties ended up in the lawsuit.
Somehow the city says they’re attached to Gaston Munoz, the gangster slumlord. So how’s that? Those are land bank properties, right? Okay. Now here’s the next month, March 9th, 2021 from Donald Rancher.
Donald Rancher is the group executive of housing planning and development for Detroit under midnight, Mike Duggan. Okay. Let me read it.
Yes. Wait, should I tell you first? Who’s it out of the email? Yes. You tell me who these people are.
Okay. Brian White. Deputy mayor.
Heather Zagamowitz. Doesn’t she work for HRD? Or is it procurement? Anna Pinter. Nicole Weiss.
Ferris Fakuri. Munoz Realty. Rehab Homes, Detroit.
Marvin Walker. Barry Sheffield. Julie Snyder.
Who’s she? Director of HRD. Housing and redevelopment. Oh, yeah.
She’s the woman you see with the little blunt bob that’s always there at the ribbon cuttings next to Mike Duggan. Yeah, the one that showed up at all the text messages that the police got that they turned over to the FBI. Yeah.
All of this because I hear like there’s a big nexus here. Now, here’s what Donald Rensher wrote to everybody involved in everything. Read it.
Hello, team. Pro Tem Sheffield introduced me to Munoz Realty. So people of Detroit, you wondered like how Munoz Realty got involved.
That would be Mary Sheffield, who was introduced to the Munoz people by lover boy number two. Now, Munoz Realty is an SF rehab team. SF is what is that? I forget.
I forget. Okay, just Munoz Realty is a rehab team that also property manages. Munoz Realty has a portfolio of over 1000 properties and has rehab 400 properties last year with Mary involved with that bundle the previous year.
We’re working on it. They are highly interested in bridging neighborhoods program and HRD’s SF program, hoping Heather and Ferris can connect them to try to further engage in our programs. Anna and Ferris, please send the team a contractor application right away, please.
What does that mean? That means he’s about to get a piece of action. They sound really enthusiastic about it, too. So my question is, if there’s a web of LLCs, the incompetent city of Detroit, how were you able to trace these back to Munoz Realty? Was there a master list? As we know, Marvin contends those big wads of cash.
He was the middleman. Mary contends she did take the big wads of cash, but that was simply Marvin repaying her. Loans of tens of thousands of dollars.
And neither one of them allegedly had tens of thousands of dollars. So where did all this money come? I don’t know if they did or did. We’ll leave that to the FBI.
All right. Now, there seemed to be a question. Wait, we got some photos.
Yeah, let’s do some photos. Let’s see here. Oh, there’s Mary giving the Spirit of Detroit Award.
That’s how you know something to Gaston Munoz. Oh, look, this clown. There’s Coleman A. Young, the second city council president pro tem, given a Spirit of Award to Gaston Munoz at, I’m told, Gaston Munoz’s private personal 40th birthday party.
Oh, nice. What is this? The Godfather? I like to thank the Corleone family for all the nice things you did in Vegas. Okay, what’s this next one? Well, I’ll be darned.
Gaston Munoz y el alcalde Mike Dugan. Mike Dugan y el alcalde. Oh, is it Gretchen wearing a t-shirt with Gaston saying, same love, same love as Mike’s got for you, same love as Coleman got for you, same love as Mary got for you.
Gaston Munoz se reunio con la gobernadora de Michoacan. I think your Spanish is worse than mine. No, I just, you know, I say gobierno is what I would say.
What does that mean? Governor. Oh, okay. Okay, so very interesting indeed.
We’re working on it. I’m just saying, I’m just saying, I’m looking at documents. Marvin said, what do you got to say? I do what you got to do.
Got a lot of Spirit of Detroit awards though. Yeah, you know, I always say when Mary Sheffield and Coleman Young are giving them out, you need to look at them. You need to get rid of that.
Who would want that award? I mean, yeah, because now it’s tied to all worlds of corruption, but back in the day. Allegedly. Alleged corruption.
Now, there seems to be a little controversy over this still. Mm-hmm. That lover boy, number two, he’s on the left there.
Yes. Gave to me, that’s an unlicensed grow facility. Mm-hmm.
And you were telling me the other day that it’s chatter. Oh, that’s AI in them. Yes.
Let’s discuss. This is a big fucking deal. It is.
High-ranking member of the city government. Now the mayor in an illegal grow house. Okay, braids and all.
Now the braids, Marvin tells me that Mary liked to wear them on vacations. They get a lot of vacations in the city. So I asked Mary’s people to comment.
They wouldn’t. So number one, it’s weird. They didn’t challenge this.
Did not. Not that I saw. Yeah, that’s number one.
Now, number two, I saw a video of this grow operation. Marvin showed it to me. That’s exactly the place he was showing me.
It was a pan shot. They were just showing you the whole thing. And he said in his lawsuit as well.
That not only is Mary, but there are cops in this video. Oh, you’re kidding. So I’m waiting for the video, but Marvin, a little tantalizing teaser.
And all he gave me was this. And as I wrote, that’s what he says. Anyway, I haven’t seen her in the video, but I saw this very room.
I know the address and I know, and I know people that worked in it. Okay. Now, Mark, you had the third piece of evidence.
What was that? Well, I just ran it through a chat GPT to see what it had to say. And you can see, I mean, AI, you asked AI. Yeah.
Is this AI? Yeah. I said, is this AI made my initial impression? This looks more like a real photograph than an AI generated image. I wouldn’t flag it as obviously AI generated.
There are several details that look convincing. The lighting is consistent with commercial indoor cannabis grow operations. The people’s clothing, gloves, masks, and hair have realistic textures.
The cannabis plants have natural looking variations in leaves, buds, and branching. The background equipment and grow room details appear photographically plausible. Okay.
And then you double-checked AI is all we should. Yeah. And I sent it back.
I sent it through Gemini then. So another AI, and they pretty much had the same exact conclusion. What did it say? More likely than not.
More likely than not. So a preponderance. And that it didn’t have, because we didn’t know this, but.
A watermark. It didn’t have a watermark. Did you know AI will stamp.
Interesting. That, you know, you can’t see it. They’ll stamp it with code that it was AI generated.
Okay. Which should actually be part of federal law. Right.
Right. And it’s also a screenshot of something, which if you’re going to generate something, I don’t know if you take a screenshot. Almost like, I think Gemini is the one that sort of looked like it was pulled from a video.
I don’t know. Okay. That’s what I was told.
Well, it kind of fits. So I don’t know. Yeah, I don’t know.
If it’s not really you, madam mayor, why don’t you speak up? Why don’t you come on? It’s really sad. Right there. We got a thousand questions for you.
Don’t we? Yeah. Don’t we? Yeah. Okay.
Let’s hear from Luke or let’s just open the show. We’ll be back with category number two. From downtown Detroit.
It’s the no bullshit news hour with my main man, Charlie. It’s just breaking this double bullshit. Double bullshit.
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i’m menopausal uh category number two okay okay another good one why’d you read it for us okay what do we have this one says southfield yeah that’s the one i want now oh yeah you’re gonna need a lot of room yeah okay southfield the mayor of southfield is something unique tara something new unique in the animal kingdom and what is that he’s a weasel who walks on two legs i say this because mayor ken cyber has presided over the mass poisoning of his city it’s been going on for a decade and now cornered his honor lies about it he tells his citizens they are safe when they are not silver tells the public that the mountains of poison dirt at the old northland mall site which are blowing directly into people’s homes are not super contaminated with heavy metals and volatile compounds when they actually are now we all know we broke the story last year and cyber posted a frequently asked question response on the city’s website he assured the public that the dirt wasn’t toxic because his experts told him it didn’t smell contaminated what you can’t smell pcbs right it all broke loose after detroit authorities discovered that the toxic northland dirt had been illegally transported to detroit and dumped into the demolition holes here by lover boy number one who’s got himself a federal case and mayor mary lied to us about voting for it right now you figure that a mayor hearing something like that that the test results are too high for human contact you figured he’d want to get to the bottom of shit immediately wouldn’t you yeah not cyber when i reached him by telephone the weasel got squirrely his voice got shrill he peppered me with salty insight uh insults he called me a sensationalist he called me a liar he said he wouldn’t know nothing about the dirt he said where’s your proof where is your proof well the detroit test results when lover boy number one brought it allegedly and dumped it that should have been enough for the guy but they weren’t for cyber so i was told about a massive 2021 environmental report i know it was prepared ahead of the sale of the 100 acre site to a private developer now since public funds were involved the city and the state were required by law to have a copy of that report now southfield officials as you all know repeatedly denied they’d ever seen the report the state department of environment denied it too what’s in that briefcase oh i found it that’s the report all 1011 pages of it there it is it’s contents are shocking and i took them to city hall oh goody yeah i want to see it i do yeah what have you done to the city of southfield detroit got poisoned when toxic soil was dumped in holes during its demolition blitz now there’s a full-blown fbi investigation authorities say some of the worst dirt came from the northland site here in southfield which begs the question how bad is it in southfield it’s bad it’s real bad the mayor misleads the public when he says the dirt is safe the mayor misleads the public when he says there’s no analytical report on the dirt well here it is i got a jar of dirt i got a jar of dirt and guess what’s inside it it’s comical the government at all levels including yours tried to bury this report when you’re supposed to have it by law that’s why your community gave brownfield money baseline environmental assessment was prepared for the sale to contour companies there were four piles 50 feet high this is fat spread across 30 acres which the mayor encouraged contractors to bring one of them is nearly gone ostensibly that was dumped in detroit the other three are still there here are the photos from back then what’s in these selenium barium lead pcps arsenic polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons all above safety levels for human contact and in some cases six times more than human contact what does that do it’ll destroy your cells it’ll give you cancer amongst other things so why is the developer today moving pile a and dumping it on piles b and c it’s not legal they’re kicking up dust and it’s smoking over those kids at the daycare centers i call nothing nobody in this community reaches out to answer it it’s supposed to go to a special landfill so what happened to the tens of millions of dollars you gave the developer to do so and why was the developer a front for the fbi in a sting operation in jackson mississippi when are you going to level with the public mr mayor when are you going to clean up this toxic nightmare and if you’re not going to when are you going to resign i would leave this but it cost me 214 bucks my cat urinated on it i will post this online for everybody to see it’s no joke the feds are live in detroit and you deserve better thank you very much that was great good job huh great job he couldn’t even look at you he couldn’t look at me could he no and the people were applauding weren’t they oh i know i hate that y’all edited that out because i’m like i know these people have to be outraged here in this shit i think they were no one’s doing anything for them they all know it you should have seen the amount of people following me out when can we get the report now despite our warnings no government agency is doing a thing about it they’ve all been contacted a veritable alphabet suit of bureaucracy the cdc epa eagles mdot and the michigan ag the scope of this thing is massive detroit to southfield the two largest majority black cities in the state of michigan and you did this to him don’t worry the upside is l syed’s gonna fix this because he’s concerned with the environment he’s concerned with the environment is he because when this was going on 2023 2024 and they were bringing it from south from oakland county to wayne county he was the wayne county director of health he got air quality monitors in detroit somebody corrected me on that the other day so i’m telling you yeah yeah he got air quality monitors so we could see how bad the air quality well didn’t you didn’t those things trigger when these trucks were coming in what a bunch of bullshit this thing is fucking massive massive the price of the cleanup could reach into the hundreds of millions of dollars did anybody discuss this during our little political season it’s the biggest you it’s the biggest thing facing us and it it’s all cyber’s fault and not even to mention the class action lawsuits that are coming okay it’s cyber’s fault because a decade ago he gave the okay for area contractors to bring that shitty dirt from the road sewer and utility projects to northland to shove in the tunnels down there now this shit belonged in a landfill but it’s sitting in a fucking 100 acre lot with some half built condos who the fuck is going to get a condo there that was my question what’s going on with the condos okay southville man tens of about 40 million dollars you kicked in so far now the condos are half built the city’s out tens of millions and the weasel of southfield is trapped in his own hole where’s the media man fuck come on help out all right let’s let’s hear from luke is this the hole-in-one it’s a hole-in-one fifty thousand dollars if you hit it luke nowaki financial wealth management what is 50 grand after tax 37 750 what about state tax yeah that’s i’m talking throwing both in there about sales tax there’s no sales tax well you’re buying the beers income you’ll buy the beer and we write that off luke nowaki financial wealth management expense allowance sound financial advice did you know that in the month of october that the federal deficit like what we took in and what we spent out just for one month was nearly a half trillion dollars that means the deficit projected out over is six trillion we’ve taken five trillion in tax and we’re spending 11 trillion the fuck now you were saying about the daycare yeah i was wondering like this doesn’t just affect that area those businesses over there are at risk of going out of business because if i had a baby at a daycare where i knew it was right next to something blowing toxic dirt if i could afford to i’d be ready to take my kid out and what about the kids the people who can’t afford to move their kids yeah and uh there’s two daycares adjacent to oh where the kids play outdoors and there’s a fucking hospital and an apartment there’s some apartment complex yeah and then when it blows across the street it’s in the neighborhood and then when it gets really really windy it’s going oh to oak park pleasant ridge ferndale yep detroit yep berkeley berkeley what the fuck insane you right there right there and what are their councils saying and their representatives no i can’t get a call back you’ve seen the videos i gotta interview plants the guy gotta want to be with me prove it i did prove it i double prove it you don’t know me dude this thing is going to get fixed i hope you’re listening to abdul and alissa and jocelyn especially jocelyn we’re going to need the money you cannot the people did not do this you were the ones elected to look out for you won’t say shit let’s go to our next our next little i’m almost scared to reach in the box and man terrifying go ahead and read it for us okay what do we got here benson saeed segue yes well well well who should we start with first let’s do let’s do l l say i’ll say buddy out of politics buddy in your pocket medicare for all lots of promises buddy out of politics all right yeah you know sound good i like that nobody ever asked that question i asked about hey there’s the doctor the other doctor in your house take medicare and medicaid nope refuses to now buddy out of politics first of all he raised a lot of money there’s a lot of special interest money behind him tens of billions of dollars and then there was the act blue we got the old ladies they’re donating lots right smurfs so what did abdul announce he’s opening it’s not a super pack it’s but it’s a uh leadership pack which is a super pack um basically it’s called habibi habibi pack it’s located in downtown la at a ups store what yeah that’s where it’s registered what a legislative pack does is anybody or any entity could donate five grand to it right right that’s it but you bundle all of that up so what you do is you got some people in politics that are your allies and then you throw them a party invite 20 people they all got five thousand and you just bundled 100 grand yeah and you give it to the person yeah a campaign then they in turn do the same for you right so it’s just round robin and shit so who are these people that are donating we don’t tell us oh we’re gonna know as soon as it starts getting funded but what you can also do with this shit is take exotic trips stay rent private planes stay in the best hotels of course put on conferences where you ostensibly talk about some legislative shit and then you party your ass off the rest of the time this is exactly the opposite of what he promised everybody it is i told everybody detroit loves promises michigan loves promises we do america loves promises promises promises okay again you could all tell me what jared goff’s fucking quarterback rating is but i’d rather know the budget of detroit city and the players because it’s the the game’s way more interesting and way more serious but we do things like vote for judges who are suspended and then say nobody told me because i didn’t watch the news when they were following her around saying she needed to resign well were they doing that during the election cycle no no but i i’m just one years ago i’m wondering like i gave it to you years ago and i would hope that you would remember but that’s the other thing not only do we like promises we have a short memory so as i was it last week where i’m like nothing’s going to change folks nope bullshit different packaging like bullshit parties and then the unipower so let’s move right over to jocelyn governor jocelyn benson for the people the people shall be involved the great value version of gretchen whitmer oh my god i think maybe next week i got to look at the democrats and the republicans since 2018
What’s changed in Michigan? What’s the legacy of y’all? This was just… Bad roads. Yeah, bad roads. And homes.
Lots of homes with no construction. And death in the nursing homes. And people leaving, yeah.
Right, and us losing wages, and our kids getting dumber, and this was a dark period. Fix the damn roads. Okay, so… No, let’s… We’re done with that.
High-speed rail. All right, so Jocelyn Benson, transition team, helping you transition to take over the governor’s office. So you hire people in the know.
So, the transition team will be chaired by Dan Kildee, former congressman from Flint, the guy who invented land banks. The same shit with the toxic soil, right? Yes. Okay, and he was really, really a major force behind the Flint water deal.
Interesting. Huh, that doesn’t seem like a kind of guy, if we’re going to turn the page and start new. Oh, here’s one.
Cynthia Paskey, strategic staffing solutions. I remember her, because she threatened to sue me. Why? Because she has a company, by the way, connected to DTE.
Does a lot of their IT, I’m told. She was also connected to Bob Picano and got a contract to do a hotline for the county, and I went in there, and there wasn’t nobody at the phones. So, who was answering it? Nobody.
So, what happened when you called? No, I walked in, and when I walked in, they went and got a couple guys. They ran in after I was already in. They ran in and sat there and pretended they were working the phones.
We’ll put that on Fox, too. I’m going to sue you. You’re going to sue me.
Oh, and Freeman Hendricks, once he’s out of politics, he goes to work for it. It’s like a stop-off, and we move on. But legitimate business, and I’m not saying that, but like, really short-term memory.
Oh, here’s one. Gary Torgal. DTE.
He’s on the board of directors, I believe, of DTE. Blue Cross Blue Shield. He’s the chairman, owner, whatever, of Huntington Bank, which used to be Chemical Bank, which used to be TCF.
Is that right? Yes, yes. God, that’s a good memory. Yeah, pretty good.
Which used to be NBD. It used to be NBD. Wow, nothing but dick.
Now, I came to first know Gary Torgal when I was ramming it up the ass of Bob Ficano, the former, the leader of the corrupt Wayne County machine. Yes. And memory serves right.
I’m looking into the purchase of the Guardian building. Gary was also the founder, and he’s still the chief principal at Sterling Group, run by his boys now. And the Guardian building and ancillary properties, the Guardian building, I think, was assessed for about $14 million.
Okay. And by the time it was all said and done, Bob Ficano and the dipshits in Wayne County bought it for $50 million. See how that works? Wow.
When the State Fair at 8 Mile got shut down, it went into the Michigan Land Bank. They sold it to Detroit for $1 million. Duggan turned around and gave it to Torgal’s group for $8 million, who turned around and did a $500 million deal with Amazon.
Interesting. Wow. Now, I believe my facts are correct.
I was told by a person high up in Wayne County involved in the money that the Oklahoma Bank here on Lafayette sold for $2 million to Sterling Group. And they’ve now turned around and sold it to Wayne County for $25 million. And it’s crazy.
When you mentioned Sterling Group, I was trying to listen and trying to think at the same time because it was something else that I was looking into, I think, involving the Ren Sin. I got to look again, but their name is popping up in so many places. Yeah.
Oh, and I think he’s the chair of the Michigan Business Roundtable, something to that effect. When Whitmer took office, she takes a lot of advice from the guy. When she took office, she made him in case the role of succession was broken, right? That Torgal would take over the governorship.
Interesting. Isn’t this fucking weird? Well, look, the absolute worst part is she ran on, I mean, the two things you can actually mention that Benson ran on because she was kind of MIA was reducing energy costs and healthcare costs. And here you have a guy on the transition team who’s on the board of DTE and Blue Cross Blue Shield.
It’s like, okay, you’re not going to do it. It’s more promises. It’s ridiculous.
Well, here’s Jim Ananick, president and CEO of the Greater Flint Health Coalition and former state Senator. That’s a continuum of care. Yeah.
They deal with housing. We know what a bang up job those do. So when, when Jim, another guy from Flint, real big proponent of the Flint water deal, when he leaves state government, his new Greater Flint Health Coalition gets funded $1.5 million, right.
To be created and take over and push the old coalition out. Okay. Uh, this was in the budget and the budget was crafted by, uh, what’s her, tell us first name, Curtis, Curtis Hertel, who was then, uh, Senate majority leader.
Yeah. Okay. So Curtis goes to work for Jim when he leaves and gets a six figure salary.
It comes out of the budget of health and human services where his wife, which is run by Curtis, his wife and Curtis is now the head of the democratic party in Michigan. See how this works. A nice big circle.
Jerk been here a while. Let me see what else we got here. Oh, we got all the special interests, business leaders of Michigan, UAW.
Oh, here’s one Fadwa Hamoud, managing member of the Miller Johnson law firm in Detroit. I believe, well, hold on here. That law firm Miller Johnson is representing DTE and consumers energy and litigation, challenging political contribution restrictions that we all just voted for.
Right. Power companies, executives, you know, out of politics. We all went, yeah, it’s great.
Well, now let’s just put the lawyer on the board and let’s put the board on the board. You think you’re getting okay. Fadwa Hamoud was a solicitor general for Dana Nessel.
Fadwa Hamoud was involved with hiding the sins and the case of Tracy Kornack, who’s now going to go on trial for felonies for ripping off a brand brain damaged old lady that she was supposed to be looking after finances. Wonder what else Fadwa Hamoud did in her time at the attorney general’s office. She’s the one that fucked up the Flint prosecutions.
She’s incompetent. There was never any justice for Flint. And she’s now on the transition board.
Lovely. Who else do we have? Mary Sheffield, mayor of Detroit. Would you, in any stretch of the imagination, put anybody that red hot, that electric, that under the microscope? No, absolutely not.
I wouldn’t. But who the fuck am I? Maybe somebody gave her some money to do it. That’s a whole nother show.
Leadership packs, hacks, power companies, poison. Get out and vote and vote blue, no matter who. All right, let’s see.
Mel Brown, senior transition strategist to Benson, serves as managing director of government solutions at Miller Johnson, the same law firm representing utilities. And Anna Nick and Kildee got a lot of political donations from DTE. I don’t know.
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We didn’t fuck with Al-Sayed. Then when the Democrats said he’s our guy, you know, took him up to the mountaintop and raised him up. Now we’re like, yeah, and they vote all this shit in.
Jocelyn Benson. I didn’t think she set the world on fire as the fucking secretary of state. And now we’ve made her the governor.
Like, what did she really do besides a bunch of Trump, Trump, Trump? And we’ve got to stop Trump. Election, election. She did nothing else.
The secretary of state is supposed to do. And now she’s the fucking governor. And her transition team tells us everything we need to know about what her plans are.
And nothing changes. But what were we supposed to do? I don’t know. Vote for the cadavers of the Republican Party.
What they look, they had control of the house and budget. Like, would they get accomplished? Nothing. Nothing.
The same thing this group is going to get. And we don’t push back for better candidates like we don’t hold anybody accountable. You know, it makes me angry that what you’re saying is because especially the Democratic Party, the Republican Party is weak and broken and stupid.
But the Democratic Party is a oiled machine. They’re fucking vindictive. You you couldn’t go.
You couldn’t run as a Democrat and say, I’m going to clean all this shit up. Now they try to take you out. Yeah.
Should look what they’re doing to Mary Waters, who the city councilwoman in Detroit. Why? What’s going on? Yeah. They’re giving her a lot of pushback.
Now people are saying now Democrats, people who I just saw her smiling with at Christmas last year, like, get her out of here. Why? Because she was back in Mike Rogers. Yep.
And she started and she’s being blamed for the Democrats for Democrats for Mike Rogers movement. But it’s like there wasn’t any, was there? And that was all bullshit, too. I mean, it feels like it feels like everything is bullshit.
Like that’s Mike Rogers team trying to create something that wasn’t there because he was so bereft of any idea or any personality. Right. Yeah.
Should run on your record like at least you have a record. But I mean, let’s talk about how the only thing people remember about his record when it’s convenient he voted against DPS. And then you point out, well, DPS went bankrupt and now we have DPS CD and the people that you elected voted to bring in VD after they told you in Florida not to do that.
So who are we really blaming? You know, so the great villain of Flint. Rick Snyder. Yes.
What did they accomplish, though? They created two DPS is one, the living, breathing children, teachers and buildings, and then one another DPS for the debt split it. So all the money is not going to service the debt and the debt’s paid off now. So we accomplished that.
And we’re not. Now that we did that, I thought, well, now we have money. We could educate the kids, but we’re not.
There is money to educate the kids, but it’s being wasted on facilities, contracts and bullshit. Did you hear Benson talk about it? I don’t recall, but I’m going to be honest. I didn’t really listen to her because I know she’s lying.
Did you hear James talk about it? All he said was we can’t read. OK. Yeah.
Well, they both said that. We know that. And even some of the ones that can read, we need to work on comprehension.
And they didn’t fix the roads. Nope. Made them worse.
It seems. Yeah. And you know what? They did auto reform, auto insurance reform, and that didn’t work.
We got the highest insurance rates in the country. Yes. And it’s no fault for fuck’s sake.
Yeah. And that’s why Cure came to Michigan. Yes.
Because they are charging you. They’re basing your insurance prices on your credit score, not your driving record. So in most cases, you can save up to 40 percent with Cure, right? Go to Cure.com and give it a look.
Don’t drive around with no insurance. Cure.com. All right. Now, you got the last one.
E.M.S. E.M.S. Emergency Medical Services. OK. If you’re in Detroit, this is going to outrage you.
If you visit Detroit, be warned. This involves all of us right under a midnight Mike Duggan, the fake mayor. He left this town fucked up.
Oh, our ambulance response times are now below the national average. Where in the world is that possible? You know how many paramedic like there are two kinds of ambulances, basic and advanced. Basic is like give you an aspirin or take your blood pressure or put a bandaid and ship you.
OK. Advanced is you need to be intubated. Yeah.
You’re in you’re having what’s it called? Diabetic shock, that kind of stuff that can administer medications, IVs. OK. So what did we do? We just made firefighters on the trucks, made them take EMT courses, and now it’s a firetruck that shows up.
They can’t transport you to the hospital. They can’t intubate you. They can’t do anything.
They’re supposed to be like 20, 25 ALS wagons on the road. There’s like seven. The same firefighters with no contracts are now working as EMT.
What did you say? The same firefighters without a contract are now EMTs. Yeah. And I’m trying to get somebody from the fire department to come out here and like man up.
Right. But they’re afraid of retribution. They should be.
You’re canned. You’re going to a union. You ain’t getting fucking canned shit.
You know what I’m saying? We take it to Benson, woman of the people. That’s right. A couple of months ago, firefighters are actually driving an ambulance.
They’re on the ambulance that night. And there’s a guy fucked up, injured, drunk, got a car. You have to take him to hospital.
No, they put him in an ambulance and drove him home. And the other guy drove the guy’s car home and dumped him there. Yeah.
One got fired, but this is the culture. So it goes from the mayor and you appoint the police commissioner and the police commission got to lay down the law. And ours is, this is the worst police commission we have ever fucking had.
No fire commissioner. Oh, we’re on fire. Fire.
Yeah. That’s why I’m like what commissioner? Yeah. We’ve done the police commission with three felons out there, including an expert or one guy that likes to pose as cops.
And then one guy who holds a party to woman gets fucking murdered like that. When you say commission, those are the commissions. Yeah.
Please. Every time I think of commission, that is the commission that I think of. Okay.
So that’s not all. I received this yesterday. Then I talked to my people in the department.
This is a dispatch from just a few weeks ago. I just want you to listen when they, when they say tablet, they mean like the iPad, right? Where you put people’s vitals in keeping a record of what you did. So listen to this dispatch.
Hey, it’s central. Still no EPCR because you’re literally one block from cardiac arrest. I mean, no EPCR.
No, that’s correct. You can’t go perform CPR until 59. Get this.
I’m not, I’m not in charge of the engine. I have a boss. Yeah.
Yeah. Let me ask him. Cause you guys way too close for me to not ask.
Uh, where am I? Sorry to Callaway. Hey Callaway. Uh, sorry to put you on spot, but you guys are like one block from a cardiac arrest.
You can’t do anything about that. No, we don’t have a, uh, in, in, in, I mean the tablet. Yeah, but that’s crazy.
You can’t respond and do CPR. You know what I’m saying? Until 59 get there. Yeah.
I mean, we can do that, but it has to be approved by somebody else other than me. Okay. Yeah.
Cause it’s so close to you. I mean, it’s a block away, but that’s, that’s not, that would have to be a CUT for, for, you know, can you put us on that run without him? As far as I know, we don’t have a, you know what I mean? Yeah, I got you. All right.
If you get it, he said yes. Hey Cap, I have an issue that is being sent up the 200s about a cardiac arrest that engine 54 would not respond to because they don’t have a tablet. Okay.
Hey, it’s literally two blocks from their quarters. I’m Pearson on the other side, North of West McNichols. And I called them and I said, like, can you just go put hands on chest until 59 get there? And they said, oh, a 203 estimate that call.
Cause we can’t respond to them as far as without a EPCR. They, they can respond without a tablet. Yeah.
They can’t talk about it. Well, let me just tell you, they did not respond and that engine 59 is on the scene two blocks from their station. And, uh, CPR was being performed by the caller last I knew, just so you’re aware.
Cause I’m sure, you know, that’s definitely going to be a hot topic on Pearson street, 17, two 30 Pearson. And I got the call in medic 22. Got it.
Okay. So 22. So it’s going to be an old five, 22 and 54 and 59.
Okay. Yeah. Thanks.
Thank you. Yeah. Okay.
Hey, this is a tough call, but 54 is like one block literally from a cardiac arrest. I know they don’t have a tablet, but like, um, they can’t start CPR or nothing. Again, you didn’t know.
I didn’t know. Yeah. And there’s like a CPR on a Pearson just North of McNichols and they can’t say they can’t respond.
It’s 59 going, it’s cardiac arrest. And then he said, you know, because they have to be able to send it to companies. Yeah.
That’s right. And then 59 is going, that’s why I’m like, can’t you just go put hands on chest till they get there and 59, write it up. You know, that’s crazy.
Yeah. Well, he said, I got a call and get your commission. If he can respond, cause he don’t have a tablet.
So he’s not supposed to go. I would imagine. Okay.
I checked protocols. I talked to a deputy chief, uh, clap on that. If they could still respond as long as another company is coming.
Yeah. Cause you have to send both, like 59s and 53s and 54s. You know what I’m saying? Yeah.
But right now our order’s not to send them on any MFRs. Yeah. I didn’t know they were without a tablet again.
Did this happen yesterday? They went out of services yesterday for an MFR run? Yeah. That’s been for days now because they said they didn’t have another tablet for them. Okay.
Yeah. All right. Thank you.
Wow. That is unbelievable. And the whole time they’re talking, people are over on Pearson thinking there’s a fucking ambulance coming.
But did you, there was, where was the ambulance? They’re talking about fire trucks. Where’s the ambulance? It’s cardiac arrest. Where’s anybody if you’re on Pearson? Did anybody sound urgent there except for the dispatcher? Well, she can’t sound too urgent because that’s part of her training.
But everybody else sound like I ain’t got no tablet. Remember like this person is in cardiac arrest and she’s got it. She’s going from the Sergeant to who’s the next one? The, um, chief.
She did a great job. Dispatcher. Yeah.
Cause I wanted to cuss. She’s pleading with them like a block away. I mean, I don’t have the tools to do it.
If I’m a block away, I’m going over there. You know, CPR, you know what? Those people are trained to do something. Just go.
The lack of urgency, Charlie nailed it. Well, I’m told the person in cardiac arrest died. It’s what I’m told.
Over a fucking tablet. And that tablet, you don’t have to have it because what I’m thinking in my mind is the same tablet that I had with dialysis. Basically, if you don’t know what you’re doing, it kind of, there’s a button you push and it’ll walk you through it.
But all you’re really doing with it, as far as I know, the ones that I’ve seen, it’s GPS is tracking you. It’s tracking your vitals, things like that. But in an emergency, I don’t think that you need it.
Just make fucking notes and go back to the firehouse later and write it up for days. So this is kind of telling you a culture. Oh, great.
The wagon showed up, the clock stops, national average. But what kind of care are you getting? Do the firefighters even really want to do this? Who even got there? Who is in charge of this shit? Do you hear these knuckleheads as we’re going up, right? Oh, yeah. It was Sergeant Captain Chief.
He’s got to call another chief, the fucking commissioner. Like, why don’t they have tablets? Well, and the fact that he just went again. Again, it’s been going on for days.
Clearly a major problem. Charlie, how did you get that? The call? Yeah. He got emailed to me by a email unknown.
And it wasn’t just to me, it was to city leadership. It was to the media. Do you guys see it on the news or anything about it? I did not.
This is the first time I’m hearing it. That’s why I’m asking about it. What was it? You know, the commissioner, Sims, he knows all about it.
This was investigated quietly. I don’t even know the fucking outcome. My sources tell me nothing really happened.
Well, you can bet something’s going to happen now. You know, as soon as I got there, I just called the motherfucker I know who knows everything going on there. Right.
I want to give his name right now. Hopefully I have mine next week. But it’s been, you know, amazing and trustworthy source.
Nobody wants to say anything bad about the administration. Our queen, nobody, nobody wants to follow up on the land bank shit. The media like just, just fucking monkeys.
They just show up and, you know, bang on a keyboard, hoping they get a banana chip. Like that’s not doing the job. You know what you’re there about land bank shit.
And it all doesn’t tie in. You’re not, you’re just, you’re city hall reporter. Well, now it seems like the media is more concerned with, if I write a bad story about Mary Sheffield, I’m not going to get invited to her next event or her press conference.
Or if I write a bad story about anybody on city council, they won’t speak to me. And, and, and that’s, that’s true. But your job is to serve the people, not to serve like you get kicked out of everywhere and you’re okay.
And you keep coming back in there asking the hard questions. And I think that’s part of why people respect you. Cause when you tell me you have the audacity to call the mayor’s office, asking for a comment, it shocks me every time.
And then I got to go to city council and dump it right on you. We could have, we could have just done this the right way and got it fixed. Right.
But let me tell you how it really works. The media just got to make copy or fill air. Right.
So the reason you want them to talk to you is so you can get invited to dumb press conferences and you have, you come back and the boss goes, what’d you do? I did this. If you did it the other way, the way we’re trying to do it here, we may copy, but it takes hours, more hours, more right. To make fill the same amount of minutes.
You know what I’m saying? Right. Like we could have just sat here, pulled up Twitter, got a few things and just bullshit it for an hour. But you know, this, that it’s just going to take more time and they’re lazy.
And here’s the other problem with this. Okay. So now we get it.
It’s a bazillion pages. It has to be dumped. AI was the main point or worse.
I can’t look at it because it’s overwhelming because it’s so long. Like that’s where we are. This needs to be read.
I would say, you know, get a group together and break it up and everybody read it and try to figure it out. But we know that’s not going to happen. So we have to rely on you to tell us what’s in here.
So what I did with this first, I read it, then I marked what I thought was important. I sent it to my editor. Do you see it? Yes.
Then I contacted scientists, experts, and I said, what do you make of it? And they gave me their impressions. And then we ran it through AI just to see if everything that’s a lot of fucking work. That’s Saturday and that’s Sunday.
I’m laying in bed, drinking my coffee, reading this because it’s important to those children at the daycare center. And the ones in the hospital, they can’t come out. And the ones playing in the apartment complexes, you know, and that’s a lawsuit for Southfield.
We talk about all the lawsuits here in Detroit. You’re going to have people who lived in apartments and twin is going to be just like that shit with the asbestos. Were you affected by asbestos? Do you have mesothelioma? There’s your mesothelioma and all sorts of other shit right there.
Well, Detroit’s got, but let me just round off 650,000 people. Southfield has 75,000 residents and another hundred thousand come into work every day. So that’s a major class action lawsuit.
And you would think with Fox too, sitting over there in Southfield that they’d be all over this shit. If you want it guys over there, any media member, if you want it, no, I just put it online. I just put it online.
That’s what we’ll do. Right. All right.
So now, you know, now, you know, what are you going to do? What are you going to do next week? Be here. Thanks.
