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Many metro residents may live outside the city of Detroit, but they all have a stake in what is going on in the city.
While happening outside of the reach of their votes, suburban residents have reason to take interest in November’s Detroit mayoral election. The city’s next mayor will shape the city’s financial, commercial and cultural prospects and influence issues like the future of the water rates that suburbanites pay; the fate of Cobo Center, which receives millions of dollars in suburban support; and the spending of some $93 million -- based on 2003 figures -- suburbanites pay in city income tax.
Both mayoral candidates -- incumbent Kwame Kilpatrick and challenger Freman Hendrix -- agree that working with the suburbs is critical to Detroit’s future success.
Jim Carabelli, a Shelby Township trustee and head of the Macomb County Republicans, said whether they work in the city and pay the 0.5 percent income tax or simply go to Detroit Red Wings hockey games, residents in Metro Detroit know their future is tied with Detroit’s.
On Thursday, Gov. Jennifer Granholm, during a news conference to talk state budget and economic issues, put the city-suburban issue this way: “We are only as strong as our largest city. And we have all got a vested interest in ensuring that Detroit succeeds.”
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