Which ex-NBA player is now being elected as Mayor of Detroit?”
Former NBA player Bing elected Detroit mayor WASHINGTON, May 5 (Xinhua) — Former NBA star Dave Bing was elected as Detroit’s mayor through the end of the year on Tuesday. With 100 percent of precincts reporting, Bing had 52.3 percent of the vote, or 49,054 votes, to 47.7 percent, or 44,770 votes, for incumbent Ken Cockrel, Jr. Both are Democrats. Bing, 65, will be mayor through 2009, serving the balance of the term that belonged to Democrat Kwame Kilpatrick, who resigned in September and went to jail after admitting he lied during a civil trial to cover up an affair with his chief of staff. Bing must run again in the regular August 4 non-partisan primary and win the November 3 general election to hold the mayor’s seat for a full four years. Bing was the No. 2 overall pick by the Detroit Pistons in 1966 out of Syracuse. He played in Detroit until he was traded in 1975 and is a member of professional basketball’s Hall of Fame. His Bing Steel company opened in Detroit in 1980, and The Bi
Detroit voters elected a new mayor recently — former NBA legend and Hall of Famer Dave Bing, who pledged to lead the city with integrity. According to the Detroit Free Press, 65-year-old Bing, won 52% of the vote, while his opponent Ken Cockrel received 48 percent. Experts say Bing won by pulling in a lot of undecided voters — roughly 14% of registered voters participated in the May 5 election. Bing is the successor to ousted mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who was forced to resign after he was charged with perjury for lying in a civil lawsuit to conceal an affair he was involved in with his former chief of staff, Christine Beatty. The former NBA player said he’s ready to go to work to bring Detroit out of its funk. “We need to work together,” Bing said to the paper. “We need to work together to get the city from where it is to where everybody wants it to go.” “The question here is how much work I can get done, how much success I can have in a very short period of time,” he continued. Bing a
