{"id":33103,"date":"2012-12-05T10:16:36","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T14:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=33103"},"modified":"2012-12-05T10:16:36","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T14:16:36","slug":"detroits-tin-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33103","title":{"rendered":"Detroit&#8217;s tin cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Old Trooper sends us a link to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxdetroit.com\/story\/20264712\/detroit-councilwoman-to-obama-we-supported-you-now-support-us\">Detroit Fox News report<\/a> that a council woman, JoAnn Watson, says that since the city pulled the lever for President Obama (75% of Detroit voters voted for Obama), he should bail them out before they go over their own fiscal cliff the end of this year;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Our people in an overwhelming way supported the re-election of this president and there ought to be a quid pro quo and you ought to exercise leadership on that,&#8221; said Watson. &#8220;Of course, not just that, but why not?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/WJBK.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=467628;hostDomain=www.myfoxdetroit.com;playerWidth=630;playerHeight=355;isShowIcon=true;clipId=8033524;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=overlay'><\/script><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxdetroit.com\" title=\"Fox 2 News Headlines\">Fox 2 News Headlines<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I might be a little more sympathetic, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/news\/articles\/2009\/05\/25\/20090525detroit0525.html\">JoAnn Watson is property tax cheat<\/a> and probably one of the reasons that Detroit is in debt;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Detroit City Council member paid only $68 in property taxes this year because city records showed her home doesn&#8217;t exist.<\/p>\n<p>JoAnn Watson, 58, said she was unaware of a city records discrepancy that has, for the past decade, listed her house as an empty lot even though the brick Tudor-style home has been occupying the plot since 1926, according to a story Sunday in the Detroit Free Press.<\/p>\n<p>Watson said she receives her property-tax bill separate from her mortgage bill and never questioned why her taxes dropped &#8211; or why they didn&#8217;t increase when she repaired her home after a tornado.<\/p>\n<p>She said she noticed the drop in her property-tax bill, which she handles herself, but assumed it was because the tornado left a hole in her roof and damaged the home&#8217;s foundation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, basically, she won&#8217;t pay for her responsibilities, but the rest of us should.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old Trooper sends us a link to a Detroit Fox News report that a council woman, &hellip; <a title=\"Detroit&#8217;s tin cup\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33103\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Detroit&#8217;s tin cup<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberals-suck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}