Diane Bukowski, arrested for covering a fatal state trooper chase that killed two Black men on Detroit's east side Nov. 4, 2008, then convicted of two major felonies although Fox2 News video showed she had done nothing wrong.
A WALK DOWN MEMORY LANE
Editorial by Diane Bukowski
April 18, 2012
While purporting to oppose the traitorous consent agreement enacted April 4, with the support of the Fatal Five on City Council, Charles Pugh, Gary Brown, Saunteel Jenkins, James Tate and Ken Cockrel Jr., the Michigan Citizen has failed to apologize for its endorsement of Jenkins and Tate in 2009.
This was the first time in its history that the paper endorsed political candidates. Previously, it refused to do so, knowing that such endorsements can come back and bite you. I was a regular investigative reporter for the paper at the time, and expressed my strenuous objection, particularly to the endorsement of cop James Tate. Along with Charles Pugh and Ken Cockrel, Jr., Tate accompanied “Deputy Mayor” Kirk Lewis, COO Chris Brown, and their hired attorney Michael McGee, a co-author of Public Act 4, to Lansing to negotiate this agreement.
This was only one of many political disagreements we had during the last years I reported for “America’s Most Progressive Newspaper.” The following year, in August, 2010, Michigan Citizen editor Teresa Kelly emailed me, telling me they would not accept any more of my articles.
Well, MC, your policies have come back to bite you and the citizens of Detroit. Many of them likely paid attention to your endorsements and voted for people who have just done what you declared in your headline: COUNCIL GIVES CITY TO SNYDER.
WE ALL DESERVE AN APOLOGY.
