ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE WILLIAM HERBERT GRIGSBY CAMPAIGN: I’ll try to keep it short and sweet, but, I want the World to know that Black Label Detroit has had some of the best performance that it’s ever had in it’s recent history, first with the Detroit Mayoral election, and now with the Gonzo Government announcement. But, I very recently had a pretty enlightening realization: if I alone were to gain office (the point of the “Gonzo Government” project) what exactly would change? I’d be a loudmouth backbencher that both parties would hate in a 2 party system. Or, as we see with Zohran Mamdani, I’d be a Radical slowly being corrupted by the system that I swore to my supporters that I’d change. So, with that in mind, I’d like to announce the end of my candidacy for Michigan House district 18 as well as suspend THIS iteration of the Gonzo Government project. Instead, I’m going to announce that I’m going to make sure that, when I announce the NEXT iteration of the Gonzo Government project, I won’t be relying on me alone winning, pushing politicians that are ideologically opposed to me to “come to the light”, not at all. When I revive the project, I want the Socioecopolitical establishment of Metro Detroit to shit itself because there’d be little to nothing stopping Black Label Detroit from changing Michigan’s politics forever. I can already hear the critics of this platform now: “This is pretty lofty talk from someone suspending their campaign out of pure embarrassment” To that, I’ll end on this, if journalism is currently dying because too many people are using all the “conventional” means to write so that they can get paid, and, the political field is flooded with candidates who promise everything only to deliver the bare minimum, wouldn’t it be pretty fucking stupid of me and the supporters of Black Label Detroit to expect something different from me doing the same?

The time is 7:09 and they’re closing public comment at 7:15

There’s currently a question from one of the lone community benefits members whose poking holes in some of @BedrockDetroit ‘s claims regarding the cost of the project especially surrounding issues like free parking

So far, @BedrockDetroit is just listing off a ton of proposed funds that’s meant to benefit Detroiters, but, it’s bordering on incoherence because it’s promises are predicated on receiving public money instead of the ~$90 million that they suggest will go towards the city

It looks like @BedrockDetroit has packed all of the front row seats with supporters of the project. Not a particularly new tactic for public meetings, but, it’s an apparent “show of force” for those who oppose any deal for Bedrock

Dueling leaflets being distributed between @BedrockDetroit and @detroitdsa

I have a pretty solid intuition that the plan is gonna pass because these were the refreshments

Just to set the tone for the night, I’ve heard at least two different people “joke” something in as many words of saying “are you ready for this to be over yet?”

Tonight is the final community benefits meeting for the Renaissance Center plan, and I’m here. Will be live tweeting the whole meeting

I don’t trust many people cause some of the people you rely on the most literally have no problem running game on you

Mark Fisher in 2009: “While French students can still be found on the streets protesting Neoliberalism, British students, whose situation is incomparably worse, seem resigned to their fate. But this, I want to argue, is not a matter of apathy, nor cynicism, but of reflexive impotence. They “know” that things are bad, but more than that, they “know” they can’t do anything about it. But that “knowledge” is not a passive observation of an already existing state of affairs. It is a self-fulfilling prophesy.”