Stephen L. Jones/Hooks

The Mayor: You got business with the Mayor? Maybe his secretary can find you a few minutes. He's a busy guy, though - do get to the point.

Real Estate: A good number of the major deals of Detroit's history have this guy's fingerprints in them. Very little redevelopment happens in Detroit that he isn't aware of.

Measure 2: The Michigan Emergency Manager has largely stripped the Mayor's office of it's official capacity as 'in charge of Detroit,' but Jones has made his position on Measure 2 quite clear: he hates it. "It's the wrong call, for the wrong problem. Shuffling the folks around won't heal this city. We've got to address the deep, systemic problems in this city's economy."

2017: Any politician begins thinking about the next election the moment they've cast their own vote.