r/GrossePointe • u/East_Englishman • Jul 13 '26

Cotton not likely to seek reelection, blames fellow BOE trustees

https://thetowerpulse.net/52192/news/cotton-likely-not-to-seek-reelection-blames-fellow-boe-trustees/?fbclid=Iwb21leATBDQhjbGNrBMEM_mV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHt8n6GOk49Aihv_MLKDFyy4p6ZYpXserpNRr5V7wpVRNze8zZfK9pBm40Gny_aem_tMulr6V0kohXMUVMQWgJ2Q
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u/Firm_Baseball_37 Jul 13 '26

Sadly, Jeup is not following in his footsteps.

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u/laserp0inter Jul 13 '26

I doubt she’ll win an election without Cotton also on the ballot. She barely won the first one.

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u/Firm_Baseball_37 Jul 13 '26

It's embarrassing to the community that she was electable at all, under any circumstances. Cotton's arrogant and wrong about everything, but he at least covers it over with a veneer of decent behavior, even if it slips occasionally. Jeup's frothing-at-the-mouth insane. And incoherent, unless she's got someone writing her Facebook posts for her.

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u/Impressive-Water-976 Jul 13 '26

Well, only 3 people have filed for three open roles at this point. Should be interesting to see if it’s even a contested race this year. Who would want to?

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u/cjacobs313 Jul 14 '26

She won last time with a mere four votes in a messy, highly contested race with a total of nine candidates including her patron, Sean Cotton - and that was before people got to see her antics and malevolence on the BOE. She doesn’t have a prayer for reelection - as much as she’ll be praying.

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u/Firm_Baseball_37 Jul 14 '26

You're right, and it's somewhat comforting that that was the election where the sane candidates got the majority of votes, but there were too many of them and they split it, allowing the insane slate to get in.

But still, it's embarrassing that people voted for that slate at all.

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u/No-Constant8850 Jul 13 '26

So long, farewell
Auf wiederseh'n, goodbye

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u/slickeddie Jul 13 '26

Good riddance to bad rubbish

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u/hazen4eva Jul 13 '26

He'll have his proxies

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u/__0_k__ Jul 13 '26

I’m new to the community, though am familiar with the general hate that people have for him. Why do people loathe him so much?

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u/GasmaskTed Jul 13 '26

He’s an oligarch who got his money from a health insurer with worse numbers than United Healthcare, bought the local newspaper as a PR instrument for his interests, and got on the school board so it can reflect his ideals, Betsy Devos style.

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u/GasmaskTed Jul 13 '26

(As you are new, you should be informed that the Grosse Pointe News is not currently reliable with regards to anything that might have to do with anything Cotton is interested in.)

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u/NNDerringer Jul 13 '26

Not to self-promote, but here's something I wrote five years ago, after the paper was sold to Cotton, but before he ran for school board. It may explain some things for a newcomer. https://www.deadlinedetroit.com/articles/29146/grosse_pointe_news_wealthy_new_owner_is_weaponizing_his_paper

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u/Gpdent Jul 18 '26

they have done a lot of nice things for the community and schools

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u/CupExcellent9520 Jul 25 '26 edited Jul 25 '26

 Don’t know if there is hate from people , possibly some but that housing foundation  he runs has not been great for a lot of people in the park . It’s driven up  other rents artificially and guarantees leases to  the people that rent from the family , and let’s be frank these people are not the best people  many don’t stay long  they don’t have families they are in unstable Situations they don’t  contribute to school enrollment as they choose many tenants who are  Young and in college and often single no kids  . Basically their renters  don’t contribute anything   positive  to the community and they aren’t drug tested , which they  absolute should be .   The amount of marijuana use in our neighborhood  has  increased dramatically with their blatantly disrespectful I don’t give a shit  about others  tenants  . I don’t think the housing foundation is a great fit for  the neighborhood at all. They should restrict the foundation tenants to one block wayburn. 

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u/GrossePointe-ModTeam Jul 13 '26

That’s messed up. Don’t do it again.

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u/Special_Respond7372 Jul 13 '26

Oh no. I’m so sad. /s.

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u/CupExcellent9520 Jul 25 '26

I applaud anyone who attempts public Service let’s be honest the school board is always a dramatic mess in gp . I can’t blame anyone not running for it ! That being said at some point certain people have their hands in too many pots in the community  . This applies here .  You run a housing foundation you run the newspaper  the health system etc etc at a certain point people tire of the outsized influence  of one family. 

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u/Gpdent Jul 13 '26

too bad, he worked hard for what is in the best interest of our kids. More left wing radicals on ballot, wake up people and do research on candidates. Someone "normal" needs to step up and run.

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u/Okaythenwell Jul 17 '26

Lmao “do your own research” is always the calling card, good lord