ABSTRACT
At 2:30 p.m. five of Flint’s nine council members assembled, an hour and a half late, for an interview with one of a long list of candidates for city manager. Six months earlier the council, led by the mayor, had persuaded the former city manager to resign. Now it was trying to find a replacement—a task made more difficult by the refusal of three council members to consider anyone but the city’s former mayor and the allegiance of a fourth councilman to the old city manager. After six months of searching, the five council members were tired of interview rhetoric and were quick to get to the point.
