Pugh, Brown attend today's council meeting
Christine MacDonald / The Detroit News
Detroit -- Council winners Charles Pugh and Gary Brown came to the City Council meeting this morning.
Pugh and current Council President Kenneth Cockrel Jr. met privately for several minutes before the meeting. Pugh, a former Detroit broadcast journalist whose mother was murdered when he was a child, will become council president in January after receiving the most votes in Tuesday's election. Brown will serve as the council's president pro tem for his second-place finish.
Cockrel recognized Pugh and Brown in the audience before the meeting. Both were met with hugs and handshakes by council staffers.
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Also in attendance was councilwoman Alberta Tinsley-Talabi, who was the only incumbent who lost her re-election bid.
On Tuesday, Pugh led with 9 percent -- or 88,704 votes -- of the vote. Brown followed with 80,698 votes. Saunteel Jenkins came in third with 74,918 votes and Cockrel came in fourth with 74,680. Tinsley-Talabi was 11th with 46,960 votes. The top nine vote-getters earned spots on the City Council.
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