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martha reeves running for detroit council, has plan to thwart crime!! Motown star advances in race for Detroit City Council
DETROIT (AP) — Martha Reeves says the Motown Sound was all about love during the 1960s, when she was the lead singer of Martha and the Vandellas and belting out hits like Dancing in the Street and Heat Wave. Motown legend Martha Reeves in Detroit on Wednesday. Carlos Osorio, AP Reeves, 64, felt the love Tuesday when Detroit voters nominated her for the City Council. The top 18 vote-getters earned slots on November's ballot, and she finished ninth with 27,313 votes. Nine City Council members will be elected in the fall. "People love me everywhere. On an unofficial level, I'm an ambassador and a civil servant for Detroit. Now I'm going for the official title," Reeves said, waving her arms and jangling her gold charm bracelets. "I could've been in L.A. and forgot about all this stuff. I could sell my property, move to Las Vegas and just play the slot machines. Why should I be bothered? Because I love Detroit. We have an obligation to hold onto its history." Reeves still travels and performs and has her own record label and production company. She said she plans to go into the studio later this week to record a gospel CD. "I've been dancing in the street," she said. As for the City Council post, "this is not a need for a job. It's a job that needs to be done." Reeves said her top priority is improving police protection for the city's neighborhoods. She said thugs have prevented her from fixing up some of the 18 old buildings she has acquired since 1999. "Junkies and crackheads have been taking down boards and even held some of the workmen at gunpoint until they ran away," she said. "The policing needs to be there, and it needs to be visible." To spruce up the struggling city's downtown and boost tourism, she is proposing a shopping mall, a nightclub devoted to Motown's legendary sound, and a landscape dotted with tributes to the record label's biggest stars. "One of my biggest dreams is to put up statues downtown — statues of Stevie Wonder ... and Smokey Robinson," she said. "That would be really great." yeah..this'll stop those pesky crackheads--a smokey robinson statue 
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meltwithu said: Motown star advances in race for Detroit City Council
DETROIT (AP) — Martha Reeves says the Motown Sound was all about love during the 1960s, when she was the lead singer of Martha and the Vandellas and belting out hits like Dancing in the Street and Heat Wave. Motown legend Martha Reeves in Detroit on Wednesday. Carlos Osorio, AP Reeves, 64, felt the love Tuesday when Detroit voters nominated her for the City Council. The top 18 vote-getters earned slots on November's ballot, and she finished ninth with 27,313 votes. Nine City Council members will be elected in the fall. "People love me everywhere. On an unofficial level, I'm an ambassador and a civil servant for Detroit. Now I'm going for the official title," Reeves said, waving her arms and jangling her gold charm bracelets. "I could've been in L.A. and forgot about all this stuff. I could sell my property, move to Las Vegas and just play the slot machines. Why should I be bothered? Because I love Detroit. We have an obligation to hold onto its history." Reeves still travels and performs and has her own record label and production company. She said she plans to go into the studio later this week to record a gospel CD. "I've been dancing in the street," she said. As for the City Council post, "this is not a need for a job. It's a job that needs to be done." Reeves said her top priority is improving police protection for the city's neighborhoods. She said thugs have prevented her from fixing up some of the 18 old buildings she has acquired since 1999. "Junkies and crackheads have been taking down boards and even held some of the workmen at gunpoint until they ran away," she said. "The policing needs to be there, and it needs to be visible." To spruce up the struggling city's downtown and boost tourism, she is proposing a shopping mall, a nightclub devoted to Motown's legendary sound, and a landscape dotted with tributes to the record label's biggest stars. "One of my biggest dreams is to put up statues downtown — statues of Stevie Wonder ... and Smokey Robinson," she said. "That would be really great." yeah..this'll stop those pesky crackheads--a smokey robinson statue
[Edited 8/3/05 22:23pm] ----- She justs wants to redevlope the area. Which is going on all over the country. | |
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