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Snyder appoints former GM Veep as Detroit Schools Emergency Financial Manager - Still a Democrat - 05-04-2011 01:21 PM
Gov. Rick Snyder today will name Roy S. Roberts, a former vice president of General Motors Corp., as the next emergency manager of the troubled Detroit Public Schools, sources close to the governor have confirmed to The Detroit News.
The offer was made by Snyder this morning to Roberts, but a formal contract has yet to be signed, sources say. The governor will be introducing Roberts at a news conference at 2:30 p.m. at his office at Cadillac Place.
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From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20110504/METRO/105040398/Snyder-taps-Roy-S.-Roberts-as-DPS-emergency-manager#ixzz1LPg5emu6
RE: Snyder appoints former GM Veep as Detroit Schools Emergency Financial Manager - Born_A_Truman - 05-04-2011 01:31 PM
I thought they already had an emergency manager, Robert Bobb.
RE: Snyder appoints former GM Veep as Detroit Schools Emergency Financial Manager - Born_A_Truman - 05-04-2011 01:35 PM
I see Bobb's term is ending. Guess I should read the whole link before responding.
RE: Snyder appoints former GM Veep as Detroit Schools Emergency Financial Manager - Still a Democrat - 05-05-2011 06:19 AM
(05-04-2011 01:35 PM)Born_A_Truman Wrote: I see Bobb's term is ending. Guess I should read the whole link before responding.
Ha! I usually don't either.
The difference now is the EFM has far more power.
Was this former VP part of the team that almost destroyed GM - NJMaverick - 05-05-2011 06:23 AM
or the team that saved GM?
RE: Was this former VP part of the team that almost destroyed GM - Still a Democrat - 05-05-2011 06:29 AM
(05-05-2011 06:23 AM)NJMaverick Wrote: or the team that saved GM?
Looks like he retired in 2000.
RE: Was this former VP part of the team that almost destroyed GM - Julie - 05-06-2011 09:42 AM
(05-05-2011 06:23 AM)NJMaverick Wrote: or the team that saved GM?
I'm thinking more like on the team that crashed it.
Julie
RE: Snyder appoints former GM Veep as Detroit Schools Emergency Financial Manager - Willinois - 05-06-2011 10:28 AM
The Governor of Michigan is looking more like a fascist dictator all the time.
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini
RE: Snyder appoints former GM Veep as Detroit Schools Emergency Financial Manager - Cha - 05-09-2011 08:53 PM
(05-06-2011 10:28 AM)Willinois Wrote: The Governor of Michigan is looking more like a fascist dictator all the time.Yeah, and we know what happened to Mussolini..some people don't learn from history.
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini