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A proposal to revise the city charter also was on the ballot and passed overwhelmingly. Voter Ingrid Stiger, 41, cast her ballot for Bing and said the new mayor will need time to make the city viable again. "We need to revamp everything old and get new visions and new people in office. I think the nation looks down on Detroit. Everything we have, the city and the school system, are not good representations of us at all," she said. Bing was the No. 2 overall pick by the 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 he is founder and owner of The Bing Group which employs about 500 workers. Ownership will transfer to his daughters and management team while he is mayor, Bing said. In other races around the nation, the indicted mayor of Jackson, Miss., was taken from his home in an ambulance Tuesday night, as he lost his bid for re-election in a contentious Democratic primary. Mayor Frank Melton, a 60-year-old who has a history of heart problems, was at a Jackson hospital, said his attorney, John Reeves. Melton faces a federal trial next week related to a sledgehammer attack on a duplex in 2006 that he considered a crackhouse. Harvey Johnson, the former mayor Melton unseated in 2005, and city Councilman Marshand Crisler advanced to a May 19 runoff. In Alaska, a businessman and former assembly member won a run-off election to be mayor of the state's largest city. With all 119 precincts in Anchorage reporting, Dan Sullivan had 57 percent of the vote to 43 percent for former state Rep. Eric Croft.
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