Mayor Dave Bing is warning the city could run out of money after Friday.
Detroit City Council President Charles Pugh and most of the nine council members refuse to back down from their position -- they are defiant in the face of the state's threat to withhold money unless the city drops its challenge to the consent agreement.
Corporation Counsel Kyrstal Crittendon told her staff in a ltter obtained by Free Press reporter Matt Helms that she didn't want the power the new charter gave her to do what she is doing.
State officials were silent Monday.
That's the situation on Day Six of Detroit City Government's Constitutional Crisis.
Councilwoman JoAnn Watson, who had asked Crittendon to review the legality of the consent deal, fired back at the state's threat.Withholding the money "amounts to not just bullying, it sounds like extortion," Watson said. "And the state should not be in the business of behaving that way with its cities."
