While he has rescued a county, a bus system and a 14,000-worker hospital network, Detroit Mayor-elect Mike Duggan wants to get involved in Detroit's restructuring process sooner rather than later, Bloomberg News reported today. “The only authority I’m going to have is the authority I can convince the governor and emergency manager to assign me,” Duggan said. “I’m attempting to persuade them. We’ll see.” With plans to combat blight, crime and population losses, Duggan must remake a dysfunctional government that’s in the hands of Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr, a former classmate at the University of Michigan law school. Orr can be ousted by Detroit’s City Council — with the mayor’s approval — as early as September 2014, though Duggan said he hopes to manage operations well enough to take control even sooner.
