Whether the pressure comes from a shot clock, corporate finances or a municipal fiscal cliff, Dave Bing inists tension doesn't faze him.
That's among takeaways from a wide-ranging Detroit Free Press interview, Matt Helms reports.
When I look back on my life, I've always been under pressure, just based on what I did -- whether it was sports, or whether it was business, and now this," Bing said.
Bing told the paper he feels the Republican governor and state treasurer are "somewhat heavy-handed" in threatening to appoint an emergency financial manager.
"They think they can come in here from 30,000 feet and understand what's going on. They don't know. I've said on so many occasions that if you haven't been here, you don't know what the hell is going on (on) a day-to-day basis. It's taken me some time to understand all of that, and to bring somebody in from the outside, at this point, I think we would go backwards."
He said it's disingenuous of the state to cut Detroit's revenue sharing by $93 million and then expect the city to repair its finances in short order. "They're part of the problem, and they need to be part of the solution."
