Putting Our Regional Partnership At Risk

We are 2-300,000 in City and County population. They are 5,000,000. Eddie may have a tough time in the future if his buddy Kwame gets re-elected. Or even his opponent.

Two interesting stories in the Windsor Star on Saturday

• 1)Windsor-Detroit partnership touted
  "Detroit's embattled Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick says the best regional partnership for his city is not with the suburban cities in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties, but with Windsor....The best opportunity Detroit has and Windsr has for survival into the future is to join together... Eddie Francis has been working to improve the cross-border co-operation."

• 2)Detroit mulls bid for half of tunnel
  "The proposed deal...has already received approval from Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick...
  
  Mayor Eddie Francis said Windsor is investigating the potential violation of antitrust laws should Moroun's bridge company convince Detroit council to approve the controversial deal.
  
  At Friday's meeting, Deputy Mayor Anthony Adams encouraged council to accept the bridge deal, pointing to the economic and job benefits through construction and others tied with big box retail outlets the bridge has said would be built on property it owns in Mexicantown"

Now maybe it's me, but if the Mayor of Detroit has signed a deal that he thinks makes sense for his City and his Deputy Mayor encouraged Detroit Council to accept it, (especially if it will help him be re-elected as the cynics would suggest), then how happy do you think Kwame is today now that the Mayor of Windsor has stuck his nose into his issue.

Can you imagine the Star headlines if the Detroit Mayor called Windsor Councillors directly to try to kill a deal that Windsor's Mayor thought made sense for the economic redevelopment of the City.

Windsor's lawyer/Mayor might even want to "sue the b......." for inappropriately butting in, especially since he is a politician from a jurisdiction out of the country.

So much for the cross-river partnership.