LANSING, MI -- If you ask Democratic Detroit Rep. Rose Mary Robinson, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan isn't doing enough to help the city's residents.

Rep. Rose Mary Robinson, D-Detroit

Asked on the public television show Off The Record on Thursday what she thought of Duggan, Robinson said she wasn't a "big fan." Why not?

"It's just a carpetbagger to me. Ok? I mean, and all due respect to the Mayor if he's watching or he hears this. I mean this is the whole style of politics today if you have money you can do anything, you can move into a community and I think his view of the world is quite different from mine and how I perceive Detroit," Robinson said.

Robinson, an attorney and former Wayne County Commissioner, has lived in the same house in the city for 48 years. From her viewpoint Duggan is investing in Downtown and ignoring Detroit's other neighborhoods.

"I'm opposed to putting the resources into a little cul-de-sac of the city," Robinson said.

She pointed to investments in market-rate housing and the M-1 rail instead of low-income housing or addressing unemployment, poverty and health problems.

"It's not fair. It's not fair to people. We got this -- oh, I was going to swear -- this trolley car that goes three miles, it's allegedly Detroit's rapid transit system. It doesn't move a single person from the city of Detroit from work or to church or to the doctor. Forty percent of the people in Detroit do not have cars. We need a rapid transit system, we need a good system and what do we get? This hype," Robinson said.

She said M-1 rail was only to service the "artificial community" downtown. She'd like to see the mayor address issues like poverty, unemployment and poor health.

Robinson also isn't a fan of the Detroit City Council and doesn't go into caucus meetings with the Democrats in Lansing.

"It's not a personality thing with me it's an ideological thing. I'm too far left and I get very frustrated because all this compromising, and I know the compromising is based upon the lobbyists they talk to. I know it's based upon the people who give them their money. And that's the American political way and I think it's bad," Robinson said.

She said she thinks the system is corrupt, and that money has corrupted it.

Off The Record airs on WKAR on Fridays at 8:30 p.m. and on Sundays at 1:00 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. This episode will be online here Friday afternoon.

Emily Lawler is a Capitol/Lansing business reporter for MLive. You can reach her at elawler@mlive.com, subscribe to her on Facebook or follow her on Twitter: @emilyjanelawler.