Bob Ficano
Wayne County Executive Bob Ficano must go.
In his state of the county speech Tuesday night, he said: "Through the years I’ve endured what some believed were knockout punches, but it would be a mistake to count me out."
Sounds like he's thinking about a re-election run.
He doesn't get it.
This election in November isn't about vindication.
It isn't about human resilience.
It isn't about claiming the "comeback kid" moniker.
It's about cleaning house. It's about starting anew after citizens have watched one scandal after another unfold, one appointee after another march into federal court downtown and plead guilty to corruption.
There have not been any criminal allegations against Ficano, but the feds have been reluctant to outright say he's in the clear. A cloud hangs over his third-term administration.
This year's election is about cost overruns for a new county jail that won't be built. It's about corruption. It's about budget cuts that have left rape cases languishing at the prosecutor's office and criminal units eliminated at the sheriff's department including the narcotics unit.
Ficano, first elected to the office in 2003, is a nice guy. But this isn't a referendum on niceness. This is about starting anew.
This is about giving citizens the opportunity to believe in county government once again, and about delivering all the services they deserve for the taxes they pay.
Vindication?
Sorry Bob; that train left a long time ago.
Ficano needs to hop aboard the "Do The Right Thing" train and find a new job.
Related coverage today at Deadline Detroit:
Did Bob Ficano Just Start His 2014 Campaign For a Fourth Term?
