Ex-NBA great Dave Bing sworn in as Detroit mayor
Posted May 11 2009 4:01PM
DETROIT (AP) -- Businessman and former NBA star Dave Bing is now the mayor of Detroit, and the third person to hold the job in eight months.
The former Detroit Pistons great took the oath of office Monday afternoon.
Bing beat incumbent Ken Cockrel Jr. in a special runoff election last week and will serve through year's end to finish Kwame Kilpatrick' term.
Kilpatrick resigned in September before serving a jail sentence for lying in court. Cockrel succeeded Kilpatrick because he was City Council president, and he returns to that post now that Bing is mayor.
Bing is expected to tackle a budget deficit estimated at $250 million to $300 million.
The 65-year-old Bing has said he'll run for a full, four-year term that begins in 2010.
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