Detroit News columnist Daniel Howes points out one of the rich ironies in the battle in Detroit over a consent agreement with the state.
Here it is, the city's Corporation Counsel Krystal Crittendon is making life-and-death decisions for the city, not the elected officials.
Howes writes:
Here we have one of the great ironies of Detroit politics today: Elected council members quick to zealously guard their position, perquisites and legal responsibilities from the alleged predations of duly elected Gov. Rick Snyder and Republicans in the Legislature mutely stand aside as their lawyer appeals an already-dismissed lawsuit that neither they nor Mayor Dave Bing authorized.
Who elected her? All because the new city charter appears to empower Crittendon to embroil the city in litigation that could hasten the appointment of an emergency manager under Public Act 4 or culminate in the largest municipal bankruptcy filing in American history, or both.
