Nearly three-quarters of Troy voters would support recalling Mayor Janice Daniels from office, according to a poll released Friday by a Lansing-based consulting firm.
The poll, conducted by Main Street Strategies and commissioned by the website Michigan Liberal, suggests that 72 percent of voters want to oust Daniels.
“Mayor Daniels has given the voters of Troy the biggest case of buyer’s remorse I have ever seen,” Main Street Strategies consultant Joe DiSano said in a press release. "Mayor Daniels’ Tea Party agenda has polarized the voters of Troy. Her repeated attacks on gays have badly damaged her public standing and voters clearly regret supporting her last fall."
Daniels has received public criticism for anti-gay comments she made on her Facebook page in 2011. She was also bashed for her in which she expressed opposition to the and slammed City Manager John Szerlag, saying she had no confidence in his ability to perform his duties. rebutting several statements the mayor made in her paper. Daniels has also .
Councilman Wade Fleming said Friday he was remaining nuetral in the public's opposition to the mayor and that a recall is in the voters' hands.
"I wouldn’t put a lot of confidence in polls," Fleming said. "I put my confidence in the voters, if they decide they want to elect someone else or recall her."
Daniels did not return a phone call from the Troy Patch on Friday.
The Main Street Strategies poll results are based on 599 automated telephone interviews of voters who participated in the November election. The voters were surveyed Thursday evening.
Several Troy Patch readers have engaged in coversation about the poll on the Facebook Page.
"I really hope this becomes a wake-up call to the city, if it isn't one already," Jonathan Barr wrote. "Voting matters."
"Unfortunately, we must wait six months from the date of her election to begin a recall," Barbara Koehn wrote. "I don't believe she will resign, I don't believe she thinks she is doing the city harm and further more, I was not contacted for the poll, but I would have voted for a recall."
Second lesson : It is immaterial how small that gay population is in Troy . Have you ever heard that she must represent all citizens in Troy ? Have you ever heard that a principle of the democracy is " majority rules ,minority has rights . Third lesson : All human beings are entitled to respect and dignity. Fourth lesson : Always ask yourself " Would I like to be treated that way ?" If you lhad done that regardless of your data knowledge you would of not made the last horrendous statement.
go to church take up a hobby Bible tells you what will happen, cant fight that.
Think I havent been called names? I will chose who I like or who I feel need help. My minority is a amount in the USA, not just troy. Do not care in the least if someone calls me a name, I find it rather funny. You havent said anthing interesting as far as I am concerned Go with god
compassion for those who are not like you.?
Who you like and who you do not like has nothing to do with it . All human beings need to be treatedwith respect and dignity . Whoa , you really do have a comphrension problem . The number of gays in the USA is also ~10% . That is not a small minority . Furthermore if it is 1/100th of 1% the mayor is required to treat them with respect and dignity . She has not done, is a very important issue for a government employee . ? Are you aware that in almost all palces of employment one would be fired with cause for speaking as she has to the gay community and city employees ? It is no small deal . She needs to learn that issue and behave like a victim, she needs to change how she acts.
Transit, you could have a real job or at least do volunteer work. I have never seen anymore spend more time than on this paper. To me, you like saying mean things about people and things, you never say anything good about anything - you must be a very lonely person. I feel sorry for you that you have to find friends on this paper.
Ms Daniels is doing to Troy. She gave her son to the Marines, did you do anything for your country???????
and go door to door. if you want her out so bad.
SOME OF THESE PEOPLE GET OFF THIS PAPER AND LET HER DO HER JOB. and yes it is wrong to open other peoples mail, the city should not do that or even look at what they send out.
again. Like someone said the worst Mayor is gone, and there was another one on for a long time and gone also but they keep their noises in the cityi's business even though no one cares about them
that - that they have more than one meaning. Maybe that is what you should do instead of being on this paper, read the dictionary. May help you.
the others would get voted out. But I believe she wants to be a Judge.
In the category of "you don't miss it until it's gone," those of us who feel that we shouldn't have to pay a fee to read news stories are not paying for it nonetheless as an uneducated electorate.
Because of the nature of my work I use the dictionary several times a day.
It would be better if everyone use this discourse to echange ideas supported with data and reason . Calling people things you cannot know to be true is name calling . Is not name calling in part why many of us are upset with the mayor? Lets show everyone we can have a infomation exchange with civility . thank you. .
so we can all learn from each other. Civility requires that all human beings are treated with respect. Furthermore so does christianity, judasim and most great religions of the world .
As for her comments to students at the meeting at Troy High: It was wrong for her to introduce any psychological or psychiatric aspects to the issue of homosexuality. We still do not know definitively what causes sexual orientation. More to the point, she only placed the liberals (and gays) in a defensive posture, which accomplishes nothing. There is a similar sort of "defense" discovered some years ago at Gallaudet University in DC, the "university of the deaf," so to speak. It was discovered that many on that campus had strong negative responses to deaf individuals who expressed wishes that they could hear or were thinking of seeking medical attention in an attempt to cure or lessen their deafness. This phenomenon has been found in other communities of the deaf as well--no, not everywhere. Daniels must adopt a more proactive style for herself, use better judgment, and keep a smile on her face, althewhile talking up solid conservative responses to address city issues. In short, she should imitate Katie Curic in style but not in substance.